Rovio Entertainment, creator of Angry Birds, saw its consumer product licensing revenues fall from €71.3 million in 2013 to €41.4 million in 2014, according to company financial reports. Disappointing Angry Birds’ licensed goods sales took down not only Rovio but the entire video games/interactive/online property type category, which fell 4% in U.S. and Canada, according to … [Read more...] about Bad Year for Angry Birds
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Outfit7 is licensing its app, Talking Tom & Friends, to Toyze to enable users to customize 3-D-printable game characters. Users—there are 230 million of them monthly, according to the company—can use a free app to personalize Talking Tom (first character available; others to follow) and then share the creation via social media. Alternately, they can model and print their … [Read more...] about Staying One Tech Ahead