1)According to ccidnet.com, China Unicom Wostore has cooperated with The9 Game Zone and launched an excellent tower defense game—GunsnGlory Perfect Version.

GunsnGlory Perfect Version is a game which has integrated the platform of The9 Game Zone and has been nominated as the best action game in the 7th International Mobile Game Awards. In this game, gamers can truly attach to the Westfall robbers through acting as robbers and robbing those passing people and carriages. The operation of this game is similar to the operation of traditional tower defense game. (ccidnet.com)

GunsnGlory

2)According to Yesky, Rovio has worked together with D.CN to promote the operation of Angry Birds in China. From May 9, users can freely download Angry Birds from D.CN and its Di Gua Game Center.

The rumor about Rovio’s entrance into China market has being spread for a long time, especially in this International Mobile Internet Conference, this topic even has become an important discussion point.

Angry Birds has ever got the most popular award in the International Mobile Internet Conference. Peter Vesterbacka, an executive in Rovio Mobile said that the users of Angry Birds in China would reach 100 million in 2011. (Yesky)

3)Recently, there appeared an imitated game from Nokia’s Anakonda in App Store. This nostalgia version of Anakonda has imitated Nokia’s mobile interface with display screen and button, which is different with iPhone’s traditional touch games. In this game, gamers cannot control the snake by clicking the game screen but clicking those virtual buttons to operate the moving snake.

The price of this game is €0.79, equally to ￥7. (MyDrivers.com)

4)PR Newswire has published 51job.com’s recruitment information, the demands for Android engineers (including the developers and optimization personnels of mobile operating systems, mobile games and other features of mobiles) in March have increased by 23% comparing with the demands in April.

According to 51job.com, as a large communication company in China, Android inclines to cultivate its own engineers, while most mid-level and small companies prefer to excavate talents through head-hunters.

Now the engineers in Android are mostly lack of qualifications of technology applications, so the salary of one Android engineer with one year experience can reach ￥8000. (PR Newswire)

5)According to Donwes, Zhangshang Zongheng Techonology has got the authorization of mobile game—Gu Jian Legends development. Zhangshang Zongheng Technology vice president Huang Bin and Gamebar vice president Su Fei have confirmed this information. Except Gu Jian Legends, Zhangshang Zongheng also has launched some revised mobile games from films, such as My Own Swordsman, New Shaolin and Guan Yunchang, etc. (China.com)

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6)According to bundpic.com, Rovio CMO Peter Vesterbacka always wearing his scarlet sweater with a bird to attend any public activities (Peter is also the 7th celebrity appeared in 2011 Time). New York Times called Angry Birds as a cultural icon in 2010. Peter said that Rovio was an entertainment company rather than a game company.

However, Angry Birds did not get the highest downloads in Rovio. Rovio has ever developed Bounce for Nokia, which has got more than 220 million downloads but not brought to blockbuster.

Rovio has begun to lay off employees from 2007 and has reduced employees from 50 to less 10, but its employees have exceeded 80 now. In 2010, the most population of Rovio employees has reached 40 and there are 23 employees were exclusively replying emails and twitters.

Matt Ridley, the columnist from Wall Street Journal, said that the success of Angry Birds came from public’s love for parabola. (China.com.cn)