Angry Birds creator Rovio Entertainment spun off their book publishing business as Kaiken Publishing last month. The separate unit will “build on Rovio’s book business while also developing publishing programs for new stories, worlds and characters. Kaiken will concentrate on children’s and teen content as well as comics for all ages…while also creating publishing programs for other licensors.” More broadly, just announced this week, former Rovio ceo Mikael Hed has led a group that purchased both the publishing business and Rovio’s TV animation studio in Vancouver, along with “certain non-Angry Birds properties,” operating as Kaiken Entertainment. New York Governor Andrew […]
