Rovio Mobile

Rovio Mobile Ltd. or Rovio is a Finnish computer game developer founded in 2003 as Relude, and in 2005 renamed as Rovio, based in Helsinki, Finland. The company is best known for its game Angry Birds for the Apple iPhone and Nokia N900.

Company history
In 2003, three students from Helsinki University of Technology, Niklas Hed, Jarno Väkeväinen, and Kim Dikert participated in a mobile game development competition sponsored by Nokia and HP. A victory with a real-time multiplayer game called “King of the Cabbage World” compelled the trio to set up their own company, Relude. King of the Cabbage World was sold to Sumea (now Digital Chocolate), and renamed to Mole War, which became the first commercial real-time multiplayer mobile game in the world.

In January 2005, Relude received its first round of investment from a business angel, and the company changed its name to Rovio Mobile.

In December 2009 Rovio released Angry Birds, a catapult-puzzle game for the iPhone, it has since sold over 4 million copies becoming one of the most sold games in the AppStore.

Games developed

 * Angry Birds – iPhone, N900 (2009), Palm webOS (2010)
 * Bounce Evolution - N900 (2009)
 * Bounce Tales - N-Gage (2009)
 * Bounce Touch - N-Gage
 * Bounce Boing Voyage - N-Gage (2008)
 * Burger Rush - J2ME
 * Burnout - J2ME (2007)
 * Collapse Chaos - J2ME
 * Cyber Blood - J2ME
 * Darkest Fear - iPhone (2009), J2ME (2005)
 * Darkest Fear 2 - J2ME
 * Darkest Fear 3 - J2ME
 * Desert Sniper - J2ME (2006)
 * Dragon & Jade - J2ME
 * Formula GP Racing - J2ME
 * Gem Drop - J2ME (2008)
 * Marine Sniper - J2ME
 * Mole War - J2ME
 * Need for Speed: Carbon - J2ME (2006)
 * Paid to Kill - J2ME
 * Paper Planes - J2ME (2008)
 * Patron Angel - J2ME
 * Playman Winter Games - J2ME
 * Shopping madness - J2ME (2008)
 * Space Impact: Meteor Shield - N97, J2ME
 * Star Marine - J2ME (2007)
 * Sumea Ski Jump - J2ME
 * Swat Elite Troops - J2ME
 * US Marine Corps Scout Sniper - J2ME (2006)
 * Totomi - iPhone, Flash, J2ME
 * War Diary Burma - J2ME
 * War Diary Torpedo - J2ME
 * Wolfmoon - J2ME
 * X-Factor 2008 - J2ME