Rovio closes one of two Finnish studios

The authors of Angry Birds announced that they are closing the studio in Tampere, and are also going to cut 130 people instead of the planned – “only” about 110.

The guys from Rovio optimize costs. Yesterday it became known that the Finns are closing their studio in Tampere and consolidating all processes within Finland at the head office in Espoo.

However, there was no good news at all. As it also turned out, Rovio, during negotiations with its employees, decided to reduce not 130 people, as previously announced, but “only” 110 employees. Someone will be transferred to Espoo, someone to international studios and offices.

Rovio also has a game studio in Sweden and offices in Santa Monica, London, Tokyo, Shanghai and Seoul.

As for the studio in Tampere, it was opened by the Finns two years ago – in 2012. It was headed by Atte Kotiranta, the founder of Universomo, which released about 50 games for mobile phones, smartphones and portable consoles from 2002 to 2010. Since October, Atte has been on leave “to care for a child”.

The closure of the studio and the dismissal of some of the staff is associated with very weak financial indicators announced earlier. The question is whether this will help the company. And, by the way, it would be interesting to see what exactly the developers from Tampere did, because most of the latest Rovio games were made not in Finland at all, but in the UK: for Angry Birds Go! and Angry Birds Transformers have been responding and are responding to Exient Limited.

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or Rovio is a Finnish computer game developer. The company has been in existence since 2003. It first appeared on the market as a mobile game development studio Relude, in 2005 it was renamed Rovio. It is best known for the Angry Birds game franchise.