Remedy Co-founder Joins Rovio To Bring Angry Birds To Consoles

Petri Jrvilehto, well known from the best-selling Max Payne and Alan Wake franchises, currently assimilated Rovio Mobile Ltd. as Senior Vice President of Console Development. Jrvilehto will ramp up console diversion growth teams to take the Angry Birds success story to stream and rising console platforms. He waste on the Board of Directors of Remedy Entertainment Ltd.

A games attention veteran, Jrvilehto is a of the founders of Remedy Entertainment, the firm at the back the Max Payne strike games (adapted to a Hollywood blockbuster film starring Mark Wahlberg) together with Alan Wake, the critically distinguished Xbox360 disdainful title. He has led assorted key projects at Remedy, such as Max Payne, Max Payne 2 together with the primary diversion pattern of Alan Wake.

Rovio Mobile Ltd. is the developer of the universal gaming materialisation Angry Birds, that has been downloaded by more than 75 million times by consumers worldwide and has set all the sales archives in the stream mobile gaming market. Globally established as the decisive mobile diversion by mainstream media, Rovio is right away relocating on to take Angry Birds to new gaming platforms outward of mobile.

"We wish to make Angry Birds a long durability universal gaming franchise, and you see the console platforms as a way of delivering an even more entertaining, absolute and involving experience," mentioned Mikael Hed, CEO of Rovio. "Petri has an excellent follow record and we're on cloud nine to have him take the lead of our console development."

"Angry Birds is a of the fastest flourishing gaming franchises in the world right now," mentioned Petri Jrvilehto. "I regard we're usually in the beginning, and with consoles you have the chance to emanate a new type of gaming experience."

The Mac and Personal Computer versions of the diversion were expelled in January 2011. The firm is nonetheless to divulge any sum on their stream console activities.

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About Rovio
Rovio is an award-winning Finnish diversion developer, and a of the heading eccentric developers of mobile games worldwide. Since 2003, Rovio has constructed over 50 titles for multi-part not similar mobile platforms. To revisit Rovio, go to rovio.com.