{"id":46570,"date":"2012-03-27T14:01:24","date_gmt":"2012-03-27T12:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=46570"},"modified":"2012-03-28T09:23:43","modified_gmt":"2012-03-28T07:23:43","slug":"angry-bird-maker-buys-futuremark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/46570-angry-bird-maker-buys-futuremark.html","title":{"rendered":"Angry bird maker buys Futuremark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Angry Birds maker <a title=\"Rovio Entertainment Ltd.\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/393299-Rovio\">Rovio<\/a> said on Tuesday it had bought <a title=\"Futuremark\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/416940-Futuremark\">Futuremark<\/a> Games Studio, the gaming arm of Finnish benchmarking software firm Futuremark, for an undisclosed sum.<\/p>\n<p>The acquisition of the studio &#8211; known for its space-games Unstoppable Gorg and Shattered Horizon &#8211; comes a week after Rovio launched its latest Angry Birds Space game.<\/p>\n<p>Its new game was downloaded more than 10 million times within first three days, topping the sales charts on Apple platforms in 104 countries.<\/p>\n<p>Rovio, the Finnish company behind the world&#8217;s most downloaded mobile game, has been valued at up to $9 billion little more than two years after it first launched Angry Birds for <a title=\"Apple\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/342717-Apple-inc\">Apple&#8217;s<\/a> iPhone.<\/p>\n<p>Angry Birds games have been downloaded more than 700 million times and are the fastest-growing games on Facebook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Angry Birds maker Rovio said on Tuesday it had bought Futuremark Games Studio, the gaming arm of Finnish benchmarking software firm Futuremark, for an undisclosed sum<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":340871,"featured_media":40971,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[36,3630,161,10206,7785],"class_list":["post-46570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaming","tag-active","tag-angry-birds","tag-facebook","tag-futuremark","tag-rovio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46570"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/340871"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46624,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46570\/revisions\/46624"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}