What is the name of this video game franchise, focusing on multi colored birds, created by a Finnish developer, publisher, distributor of video games and entertainment company headquartered in Espoo, Finland?
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Rovio Entertainment Rovio Entertainment Ltd. (formerly Relude and later Rovio Mobile) is a Finnish developer, publisher, distributor of video games and is an entertainment company headquartered in Espoo, Finland. The company was founded in 2003 as a mobile game development studio. The company is best known for creating the "Angry Birds" franchise.
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Angry Birds Angry Birds is a video game franchise created by Finnish company Rovio Entertainment. The series focuses on multi-colored birds who try to save their eggs from green-colored pigs, their enemies. Inspired by Crush the Castle, the game has been praised for its successful combination of fun gameplay, comical style, and low price. Its popularity led to many spin-offs, versions of "Angry Birds" being created for PCs and gaming consoles, a market for merchandise featuring its characters, a televised cartoon series, and a feature film. In January 2014 there had been over two billion downloads across all platforms, including both regular and special editions: as of July 2015, the series’ games have been downloaded more than three billion times collectively, making it the most downloaded freemium game series of all time. The original "Angry Birds" has been called "one of the most mainstream games out right now", "one of the great runaway hits of 2010", and "the largest mobile app success the world has seen so far". An animated feature film based on the series was released by Columbia Pictures on 20 May 2016, and the first main-series sequel, "Angry Birds 2", was released on 30 July 2015.
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Zoo Tycoon Zoo Tycoon is a series of business simulation video games. The games focus around building and running successful zoo scenarios. The series was initially developed by Blue Fang Games and published by Microsoft Studios who later in 2001-2008 went on to create two stand-alone video games and seven expansion packs for PC and Macintosh platforms. In 2013, Microsoft Studios released a new "Zoo Tycoon" game, developed by Frontier Developments for Xbox One and Xbox 360. An enhanced version of the Xbox game, "", is planned to release for Windows 10 and the Xbox One on October 31, 2017.
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Ubisoft Ubisoft Entertainment SA (formerly Ubi Soft Entertainment Software) is a French video game publisher, headquartered in Rennes, France. It is known for publishing games for several acclaimed video game franchises including "Assassin's Creed", "Far Cry", "Just Dance", "Prince of Persia", "Rayman", and "Tom Clancy's". It is the fourth largest publicly-traded game company in the Americas and Europe after Activision Blizzard, Electronic Arts, and Take-Two Interactive in terms of revenue and market capitalization.
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Pokémon The franchise began as a pair of video games for the original Game Boy that were developed by Game Freak and published by Nintendo. It now spans video games, trading card games, animated television shows and movies, comic books, and toys. Pokémon is the second best-selling video game franchise, behind only Nintendo's "Mario" franchise and the highest-grossing media franchise of all time. The franchise is also represented in other Nintendo media, such as the "Super Smash Bros." series.
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Celebi (Pokémon) Celebi (セレビィ , Serebī ) is a Pokémon species in Nintendo and Game Freak's "Pokémon" franchise. Created by Ken Sugimori, it first appeared in the video games "Pokémon Gold" and "Silver" and later appeared in various merchandise, spinoff titles, and animated and printed adaptations of the franchise. Celebi appears with central roles in the anime movies "Pokémon 4Ever" and "". In the "Pokémon Adventures" manga, one of the main antagonists, Pryce, seeks Celebi so he can travel back in time.
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Carnivores (series) The Carnivores games are a series of hunting simulation video games featuring prehistoric species ranging from dinosaurs to extinct Megafauna (depending on the title). The first three games were developed for the PC by Action Forms and published by WizardWorks between 1998 and 2001. The fourth game, "Carnivores Cityscape", was developed by Sunstorm Interactive and released by Infogrames in 2002. The fifth installment, "," is a port of "Carnivores 2" to the iOS and Android by Tatem Games and the PSP by Beatshapers, released in 2010. "Carnivores Ice Age" soon followed and got its own port debuting for iOS, eventually making its way into Android. September 2013 marked the release of yet another game, "Carnivores Dinosaur Hunter HD", an HD remake of the series. This new title includes new graphics and new hunting experiences packed with exciting features never seen before. Two years later, the title "Carnivores Dinosaur Hunter Reborn" was released for the PC. The series has attracted a small cult following.
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Angry Birds 2 Angry Birds 2 is a 2015 puzzle video game developed by Rovio Entertainment as the twelfth game in the "Angry Birds" series, and is the direct sequel to the original "Angry Birds". It is free-to-play with optional purchases for in-game currency. The gameplay features a new bird named Silver, spells instead of power-ups and gameplay occurs in multi-stage levels. It was soft-launched in Canada on March 5, 2015, as "Angry Birds Under Pigstruction", released for iOS and Android worldwide on July 30, 2015, and the name was changed to "Angry Birds 2".
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Success (company) Success Corporation (株式会社サクセス Kabushiki-Gaisha Sakusesu ) is a Japanese video game and online game developer and publisher, based in Shinagawa, Tokyo, and founded on June 7, 1978. They are best known for their "Cotton" series of shooter games, "Zoo Keeper" and others. Their most recently published titles include "Metal Saga" for PlayStation 2 and "" for the Wii console.
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Afrika (video game) Afrika is a photography and safari simulation video game for the PlayStation 3. Developed by Rhino Studios and published by Natsume, the game was first announced in a promotional video during the Sony press conference at E3 2006. "Afrika" has been referred to as being similar to the Nintendo 64 title "Pokémon Snap".
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Unique Development Studios Unique Development Studios AB (formerly Unique Development Sweden HB) was a Swedish video game developer based in Norrköping, Sweden. Founded in September 1993 by Michael Brunnström, Peter Zetterberg and Carl Lundqvist, the company incoporated under the name Unique Development Sweden in May 1994, and renamed Unique Development Studios in June 1997. Between 1998 and 2000, Unique Development Studios opened a second office in Gothenburg, Sweden, acquired London, England-based developer King of the Jungle, and established publishing subsidiaries GlobalFun and AddGames. The company shut down in 2004, and development of "The Kore Gang" was shifted to SnapDragon Games, until it also dissolved and the game was handed to Zoink, a studio led by former Unique Development Studios game designer Klaus Lyngeled.
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Pikmin (series) Pikmin (ピクミン , Pikumin ) is a series of puzzle strategy video games created by Shigeru Miyamoto and published by Nintendo. The games focus on directing a horde of plant-like creatures called Pikmin in order to collect items by destroying obstacles, avoiding hazards and/or fighting fauna that are hazardous to both the player and the Pikmin.
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Frogwares Frogwares is an independent Ukrainian video game development studio headquartered in Kyiv with subsidiary offices in Dublin. Together with its subsidiaries, the studio is widely recognized for their adventure games created for major gaming platforms, including PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Nintendo DS, Nintendo 3DS, Wii, PC and mobile.
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The Angry Birds Movie The Angry Birds Movie (or simply Angry Birds) is a 2016 3D computer-animated comedy film based on the video game series of the same name, but it can also be interpreted to be a direct prequel to, or origin story behind the original game. Produced by Rovio Animation, it was animated by Sony Pictures Imageworks. It was directed by Clay Kaytis and Fergal Reilly in their directorial debuts, and written by Jon Vitti. The film stars Jason Sudeikis, Josh Gad, Danny McBride, Maya Rudolph, Kate McKinnon, Sean Penn, Tony Hale, Keegan-Michael Key, Bill Hader and Peter Dinklage. It is an international co-production between the United States and Finland.
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Crystal Defenders Crystal Defenders (クリスタル・ディフェンダーズ , Kurisutaru Difendāzu ) is a series of turn-based strategy video games developed by MSF/Winds and published by Square Enix. It comprises several iterations released for mobile phones and through online video game delivery services. The games are set in the fictional world of Ivalice and features job classes, monsters and summoned creatures from the tactical role-playing game "".
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Entertainment Software Publishing Entertainment Software Publishing (エンターテインメント・ソフトウェア・パブリッシング), or ESP, was a computer game publisher. It was created in 1997, primarily as a support company for the developer studios that made up GD-NET (Game Developers Network). ESP took the burdens of public relations and sales out of the hands of game studios.
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Rotozoa Rotozoa is a puzzle video game published by Nintendo for the Wii video game console. The game revolves around a colour-matching concept, with a mechanic similar to that of Snake, taking place within a diffuse world of micro-organisms. Developed by skip Ltd., the game is the fifth WiiWare installment in the "Art Style" series. It was initially released in Europe on May 28, 2010, under the alternative title Penta Tentacles, and followed in North America on June 21, 2010. It was eventually also released in Japan on October 18, 2011, preserving the launch title of the PAL release.
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List of Square Enix video game franchises Square Enix is a Japanese video game development and publishing company formed from the merger of video game developer Square and publisher Enix on April 1, 2003. The company is best known for its role-playing video game franchises, which include the "Final Fantasy" series, the "Dragon Quest" series, and the action role-playing "Kingdom Hearts" series. Since its inception, the company has developed or published hundreds of titles in various video game franchises on numerous gaming systems. Of its properties, the "Final Fantasy" franchise is the best-selling, with a total worldwide sales of over 110 million units. The "Dragon Quest" series has shipped over 66 million units worldwide and is one of the most popular video game series in Japan, while the "Kingdom Hearts" series has shipped over 22 million copies worldwide.
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PlatinumGames PlatinumGames Inc. (プラチナゲームズ株式会社 , Purachina Gēmuzu Kabushiki Gaisha ) is a Japanese video game development company. The company was founded in October 2007, as result of the merger between Seeds Inc. and Odd Inc. The following year, video game publisher Sega announced that it would be publishing four unique properties developed by the company, which included "MadWorld", "Infinite Space", "Bayonetta", and "Vanquish". Their partnership later extended to include "Anarchy Reigns". However, none of these were a commercial success, even though most of them received high critical praise.
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Super Mario Super Mario (Japanese: スーパーマリオ , Hepburn: Sūpā Mario ) is a series of platform video games created by Nintendo featuring their mascot, Mario. Alternatively called the Super Mario Bros. (スーパーマリオブラザーズ , Sūpā Mario Burazāzu ) series or simply the Mario (マリオ ) series, it is the central series of the greater "Mario" franchise. At least one "Super Mario" game has been released for every major Nintendo video game console and handheld.
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List of Sega video game franchises This is a list of video game franchises published or developed by Sega or a subsidiary of the company. All series spanning multiple games are listed here. Games that were developed and published by third parties but released on Sega consoles are not listed here. Almost all of these titles and series have been published by Sega with the exception of a couple of franchises in which Sega was the developer. In the case of a franchise in which there are multiple games but no series article exists, the first game in the series is the main article and is linked to this list.
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The Sims The Sims is a life simulation video game series, developed by EA Maxis and published by Electronic Arts. The franchise has sold nearly 200 million copies worldwide, and it is one of the best-selling video games series of all time.