Sega Nears Deal To Purchase ‘Offended Birds’ Maker Rovio For $1 Billion

In response to the Wall Road Journal, Sega dad or mum firm Sega Sammy Holdings is nearing a deal to buy “Offended Birds” maker Rovio for $1 billion. Polygon stories: Rovio is finest identified for Offended Birds, the physics puzzle recreation that launched on iOS in 2009. Rovio has delivered a number of sequels, spinoffs, and tie-ins with different manufacturers, together with Star Wars, Transformers, and the animated film Rio. Sega and Rovio additionally teamed up in 2015 to deliver Sonic the Hedgehog characters to Offended Birds Epic, a turn-based RPG. An animated sequence and two characteristic movies had been additionally launched utilizing Offended Birds characters.

Offended Birds’ world success hasn’t translated to Rovio’s different video games, which embrace action-role-playing recreation Darkfire Heroes and colourful matching video games Small City Murders and Sugar Blast. Sega’s present cell recreation lineup contains a wide range of Sonic the Hedgehog operating video games and retro video games from the Sega Genesis period.