Rovio Entertainment Oy is a Finnish video game developer based in Espoo, founded in 2003 by Helsinki University of Technology students Niklas Hed, Jarno Väkeväinen and Kim Dikert under the name Relude Oy before later being renamed Rovio Mobile and then Rovio Entertainment. The studio is best known for the Angry Birds franchise, whose success helped establish Finland as a center of the mobile game industry, and the company has operated studios in Barcelona, Toronto, Espoo, Stockholm and Copenhagen. In August 2023 Sega purchased Rovio for 776 million dollars, making it a subsidiary of Sega Europe.
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Founded in 2003 by Helsinki University of Technology students Niklas Hed, Jarno Väkeväinen and Kim Dikert, the company is best known for the Angry Birds franchise.
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