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Mobile-based streaming service Hatch, which was majority-owned by Angry Bird’s creator Rovio, was quietly closed at the end of 2020, Gamasutra has reported. A banner on the service’s website states that Hatch ceased to be as of December 31st 2020, although no announcement was made by Hatch or Rovio to that end. And while Hatch is shuttered, its spin-off service Hatch Kids appears to be still running. Hatch was designed to stream mobile games to mobile gamers, reducing friction of installs and providing premium content, without microtransactions, in a form that sidestepped the discover...
Angry Birds developer Rovio has revealed the successor to CEO Kati Levoranta. The company's Alexandre Pelletier-Normand will take over leadership on January 1, 2021, concluding the months-long search for a successor. Levoranta announced she would be stepping down as CEO back in October, having held the position since January 2016. Pelletier-Normand has worked at Rovio since January 2019, when he took the role of executive vice president for games and became responsible for leading the games side of the company's business. Prior to this, he worked at Gameloft where he held a variety of positio...