Chillingo Bought by EA!!!

ktfright

Weird.

Reuters is claiming that the publisher of Angry Birds, Chillingo, has been snapped up by EA for $20 million. The developer of Angry Birds, Rovio Mobile, isn't part of that deal though. [Reuters via Mashable]

IsabelleK

Wooow...

ToastKitten

snap!

butterbean

Frightening!

quantumsheep

Cheap at twice the price!

QS

Sparkyidr

yeah. I also see Rovio are just about to release a Halloween themed angry birds and self publish it.

The EA monopoly machine rolls on.

Photics

Ah... I'm one step closer to living the dream... for Electronic Arts to make a buyout offer to Photics... and then to REJECT THEM!

Chaser

This is probably what GS wants to happen to themselves

Eastbound

Oh good. Now we can have even more series that make a rehash of every title, every year, with minor to no improvements from each entry!

BeyondtheTech

My thoughts on this, in relation to GameSalad... http://tinyurl.com/3amq34l

Jel

$20M really isn't very much for Chillingo considering how well they are doing in the App Store. A lot/most console/PC games cost that much to develop 1 game.

UtopianGamesLtd

EA offered me 20 for utopian games unfortunately it was $20 lol.

Darren.

TouchTiltGames

UtopianGamesLtd said:
EA offered me 20 for utopian games unfortunately it was $20 lol.

Darren.

EA offered me a job at one time but I turned it down heh

quantumsheep

A very interesting article about the deal here:

http://www.pocketgamer.co.uk/r/iPhone/Chillingo+news/news.asp?c=24461&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed:+PocketGamerLatestNews+(Pocket+Gamer+-+Latest+news)&utm_content=Twitter

Especially the bit at the end:

In fact, Rovio boss Peter Vesterbacka says, “We will not use Chillingo again”. He claims that when it comes to mobile games, “You don’t need publishers.”

QS

Rattlehead

quantumsheep said:
In fact, Rovio boss Peter Vesterbacka says, “We will not use Chillingo again”. He claims that when it comes to mobile games, “You don’t need publishers.”

Ouch!

I like the couple of comments below that trash Rovio for 'having an ego' for ignoring what Chillingo did to make them a household name... if Angry Birds been a crummy game, would it have been a household name? Doubtful.

Too many of these publishers are nothing but marketers looking to skim off the top for very little effort.

Personally, I think Rovio's stance is sound.

Eastbound

quantumsheep said:
A very interesting article about the deal here:

http://www.pocketgamer.co.uk/r/iPhone/Chillingo+news/news.asp?c=24461&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed:+PocketGamerLatestNews+(Pocket+Gamer+-+Latest+news)&utm_content=Twitter

Especially the bit at the end:

In fact, Rovio boss Peter Vesterbacka says, “We will not use Chillingo again”. He claims that when it comes to mobile games, “You don’t need publishers.”

QS

Wow very interesting!

expired_012

The new halloween theme of angry birds is now under Rovio Mobiles name:)

I cannot believe they made them 2 separate apps, now they get double the money!

Weswog

Yeah angry birds halloween is #1 on iPhone and iPad that's crazy

Cheers, Weswog

expired_012

I wonder if its going to be removed after halloween...hmm.

I bet if 10 different angry birds were made they would all be on the top 10

RH

Ummm, is it just me or have they just added a few pumpkins, changed the background image and uploaded it as a new game?