Sega buys Angry Birds creators

Die “Angry Birds” is moving to Japan with a company takeover: the video games specialist Sega Sammy wants to buy the developer company behind the well-known smartphone game. The Finnish company Rovio will at the acquisition announced on Monday with approximately 706 million euros rated.

Rovio landed a hit with “Angry Birds”, but then found it difficult to build on the success with other games. The business around the 2009 published “Angry Birds” brings further the majority of sales a.

Jump in price after takeover

The game was among the first to be successful by the Touchscreen operation made use of: With finger movements, you shoot colorful birds from a catapult at pigs that want to steal eggs. Rovio also brought “Angry Birds” to the cinema screen.

Sega is like for video game characters Sonic known. Sega Sammy was formed about 2 decades ago when Sega merged with the Slots provider Sammy. Sega Sammy isn’t the first prospective buyer of Rovio.

A takeover bid by the Israeli company Playtika was announced at the beginning of the year. Rovio refused. Sega offers nun 9.25 Euro is Rovio Shares. The course jumped at times on Monday morning by around 30 percent up to 9.55 euros.