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In a rather surprising turn of events after the controversial news about Rovio delisting the very first Angry Birds from stores (with rumours claiming it was done due to not being able to profit from the lack of microtransactions on said title), SEGA has stepped up and made, and subsequently approved, offer to acquire the creators of the Angry Birds franchise.

According to some outlets, SEGA wants to be able to improve its mobile presence through the experience Rovio has on said market, and while initially the offer was rumoured to be around the billion dollars for the acquisition, the final amount to which the acquisition will be settled will be $776 million dollars.

It is still unknown what other goals SEGA might have with the merge of Rovio other than expanding their mobile experience, but it'll certainly be interesting to see what might come out of this merge.

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[OilFreak]

Damn, that was unexpected.
Hopefully this means the classic games will be relisted

 

[Bladexdsl]

it's official sega going full mobile imagine all the cool ips they could have made with that $ instead of buying this mobile trash!

 

[hippy dave]

Angry Hedgehogs - coming soon

 

[pustal]

Might actually be a good thing. Sega has a decent mobile repertoire considering the competition. Doesn't relly on microtransactions in every game.

 

[sombrerosonic]

Maybe Sega gonna let Rovio handel the mobile games from now on idk.

Buying a dead franchies is kinda weird.

 

[FAST6191]

Sega years late to the party once more.

 

[Bladexdsl]

Angry Hedgehogs - coming soon

oh man i was saving that for later...

 

[Delerious]

Is Rovio even worth that much at this point? Oh well, good thing Sega Sammy makes bank off of pachinko machines, right?

 

[KeeperCP1]

I sure hope the community posts on Angry Birds' youtube will stop getting those replies like "STOP SMOKING AND BRING BACK THOSE STUPID OLD GAMES GOSHDARNIT!"
These replies annoy me!

 

[K3Nv2]

Can't wait for that $60 angry birds remake on the Atari 9250

 

[DarkCoffe64]

Uh... "Interesting" move. Would've rather if Sega used those money for, oh, I dunno, make some quality games using the many IPs they have and are neglecting... but welp shrug

 

[pedro702]

why buy a studio that only did one game and countless expansions for their only game and nothing more? also those games are preety much dead nowadays, not sure why waste so much money on this crap imo.

 

[x65943]

Shocked Sega has that kind of money

 

[diggeloid]

They probably just needed a new mini game to add to Yakuza

 

[Bladexdsl]

Shocked Sega has that kind of money

sega sammy does

 

[raxadian]

So... several Angry Birds games, Nibblers and the delisted Amazing Alex. Plus a few now delisted clones of other games.

Sure Angry Birds is still making money so Sega will get back their money in a few years but the company nowadays basically doesn't make anything that's not Angry Birds.

Amazing Alex was bought by Rovio and they didn't really know how to continue it, that and not making as much money as Angry Birds is why it got delisted.

I don't know if this was a good business choice, but at least I hope we get another angry Birds collection with at least three games.

Oh and I kinda miss Amazing Alex.

 

[tech3475]

Damn, that was unexpected.
Hopefully this means the classic games will be relisted

Doubtful, might get a re-release as part of Angry Birds Origins though.

 

[LightBeam]

Let's see what they plan to do with that. I sure hope they make more than just Angry Sonic Birds skins

 

[SonyUSA]

Angry Hedgehogs - coming soon

I could be onboard for Angry Monkey Ball