在Chillingo以2000万美元的价格出售给Electronic Arts艺电之后，Angry Birds开发者Rovio Mobile称他们将不会再继续委托Chillingo作为他们游戏产品的发行代理。

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这同样是很让人意外的事情，Chillingo成功发行了Angry Birds和Cut the Rope这样经典的手机游戏，被pocket gamer估值为1亿美元。但是事实上该公司的出售估价仅为2000万美元。

这个是很奇怪的现象，当Chillingo出售之后，很多用户以为Rovio Mobile被出售了。Rovio Mobile还特地在twitter向用户澄清了这个事实。

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Peter Vesterbacka称现在的游戏开发者对发行商的依赖越来越小了，特别是当一家公司的游戏打开知名度以后更是这样。

事实上除了Chillingo，Rovio Mobile自己也扮演了发行商的角色，比如angry birds的android版、诺基亚版。

angry birds从去年12月份以来已经在ios上下载超过650万次。（本文由游戏邦/gamerboom.com编译）

After some customer confusion regarding the $20 million cash sale of  games publisher Chillingo to Electronic Arts this morning, Angry Birds “Mighty Eagle” Peter Vesterbacka revealed to TechCrunch that the Rovio Mobile product relationship with the publisher did not evolve after the original publication of the iPhone and iPad games in December of 2009.

Vesterbacka told TechCrunch,”We only did the first iPad/iPhone integration with Chillingo and aside from that we’ve published everything ourselves. We will not use Chillingo again.”

Vesterbacka also added that the role of the publisher has diminished in modern game development; “You don’t need publishers.”

Rovio Mobile has self-published all their games since their deal with Chillingo, including Angry Birds on the Android, Angry Birds on Nokia, and Angry Birds Halloween (see video below), which by some amazing press luck launches in the App Store for North American users tonight at midnight.

The relationship between a games publisher and a game developer is similar to that of an author and a book publisher, and is usually dictated by a contract. According to Vesterbacka, the Angry Birds contract between Chillingo, which also publishes Cut The Rope, gave Rovio Mobile all IP rights to Angry Birds moving forward from the iPhone/iPad integration.

Angry Birds, which has sold 6.5 million copies in the App Store since its launch in December of 2009, will continue to remain an independent entity. And while IP licenses with the other Chillingo games are on a per contract basis, what Electronic Arts actually did gain in the Chillingo acquisition was soft access to under the radar games as well as Chillingo’s Crystal Social platform.（source：techcrunch）