{"id":39075,"date":"2023-04-18T16:55:26","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T20:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=39075"},"modified":"2023-04-18T16:55:26","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T20:55:26","slug":"angry-birds-company-to-be-sold-to-sega","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/18\/angry-birds-company-to-be-sold-to-sega\/","title":{"rendered":"Angry Birds Company to Be Sold to Sega"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2023\/4\/14\/23683633\/angry-birds-rovio-sega-sell-deal\">Umar Shakir<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=35588945\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2023\/4\/14\/23683633\/angry-birds-rovio-sega-sell-deal\"><p>Sega is reportedly close to buying Rovio Entertainment &mdash; the company that owns the <em>Angry Birds<\/em> mobile game franchise &mdash; for a whopping $1 billion, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/sega-nears-deal-for-angry-birds-mobile-game-maker-12bc7984\">according to <em>The Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/a>.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>The original game was a smash success in 2009, but the franchise has seemingly fallen off since its 2014 peak, when Rovio reported <a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/3750618\/angry-birds-rovio-profits\/\">falling profits<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2014\/10\/2\/6893259\/rovio-may-lay-off-130-as-growth-slows\">layoffs<\/a>.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>Rovio watched as competitors like <em>Candy Crush<\/em> grew more and more, eating away interest in <em>Angry Birds<\/em>.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>Recently, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2023\/2\/21\/23609181\/angry-birds-rovio-classics-delisted-google-play-app-store-reds-first-flight\">Rovio removed its original <em>Angry Birds<\/em> game<\/a> from the Google Play Store, and it renamed the iOS version to <em>Red&rsquo;s First Flight<\/em>. The move was done seemingly to move players over to its lucrative freemium sequels and obscure the buy once and play forever business model of the original game.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Umar Shakir (via Hacker News): Sega is reportedly close to buying Rovio Entertainment &mdash; the company that owns the Angry Birds mobile game franchise &mdash; for a whopping $1 billion, according to The Wall Street Journal.[&#8230;]The original game was a smash success in 2009, but the franchise has seemingly fallen off since its 2014 peak, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2023-04-18T20:55:29Z","apple_news_api_id":"353a1a40-f57b-43b6-b0f7-b7486fc23f73","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2023-04-18T20:55:29Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/ANToaQPV7Q7aw97dIb8I_cw","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[66,2369,101,418,31,2185,26,2368],"class_list":["post-39075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-acquisition","tag-angry-birds","tag-business","tag-game","tag-ios","tag-ios-16","tag-iosapp","tag-sega"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39076,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39075\/revisions\/39076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}