Notably, not someone from Rovio or Chillingo, but a legacy gaming company instead.

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Look at how much money game giants like Electronic Arts have invested in the mobile space, acquiring game studios like PopCap, Chillingo and Firemint.

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To reposition itself for the future, in quick succession, Electronic Arts acquired Playfish, a social-games developer, Chillingo, a mobile-games publisher, and Firemint, a mobile-games studio.

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Rovio worked with U.K. games publisher Chillingo to polish the animation and work out a plan to keep rolling out new updates, so Rovio could stay in contact with its players.

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What exactly did EA acquire when they bought Chillingo?

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EA, for instance, just bought the Chillingo, the publisher of the popular iPhone game Angry Birds, last week. (Though the purchase did not include rights to the game, which belong to its developer Rovio.) And Zynga bought iPhone developer Bonfire Studios, earlier this month.

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