Rovio, developer of the wildly successful Angry Birds series, said that it has acquired Futuremark Games Studio, the video game development business of benchmark maker Futuremark.
Rovio said that the purchase will support its strategy of rapidly expanding in "entertainment, publishing, animation and retail." Futuremark CEO Jukka Mäkinen said that his company will now focus on its 3D Mark benchmark, which will be released in a new version later this year and enable a "unified gaming performance comparison across operating systems and form factors for the first time."
Rovio, founded in 2003 as Relude and renamed to Rovio Mobile in 2005, claims that its Angry Birds games have been downloaded more than 500 million times. Besides Angry Birds, Rovio has developed more than 30 other titles, primarily for J2ME and, since 2008, for N-gage, iOS, Android, WebOS, Symbian, Windows, Mac OS X, Chrome, Windows Phone 7, Wii U, Nintendo 3DS and the PlayStation Vita since 2008.
Futuremark Games Studio is the second major acquisition of the developer. Last summer, Rovio bought Kombo Animation.
Min Requirement:
i7
8GB RAM
Radeon 7970 or whatever top of the line GPU.
24" LED TouchScreen Monitor
Features:
3D Angrybird with 10million poly per bid.
Real feathers
Fluffing feathers
Texturized bird shit with HDR lightning
PhysX and Havok support
Multiplayer options
DLC content
Future:
Kinect Support
So there you have it....
make the future of pc gaming based off angry birds?
That's the harsh reality, the future of gaming is casual gaming.
Min Requirement:
i7
8GB RAM
Radeon 7970 or whatever top of the line GPU.
24" LED TouchScreen Monitor
Features:
3D Angrybird with 10million poly per bid.
Real feathers
Fluffing feathers
Texturized bird shit with HDR lightning
PhysX and Havok support
Multiplayer options
DLC content
Future:
Kinect Support
So there you have it....
The only thing I can see this doing is increasing the system requirements of the games with out making them look much better. or doing wasteful things like 16k 32 bit uncompressed textured air with tessellation, HDR, particle physics, ray tracing, with all at 100% transparency since you are not suppose to be able to see the air (but at least you will know that the air be behaving like real air)
Hah, that made me laugh.
Future Toms comments:
But can It play.....AngrybirdHDMax3dExtreme edition?
No, I don't think you do.
And what? Computing upgrades will simply just stop?
futuremark no longer need the game studio for making stupid games, they only have to focus on making benchmark software that will run fast on specific brand processor who feed them and run slow on other brand processor
don't be stupid, it's not me who you need to be voting down, you need to be voting down companies intending to do turn gaming into a hell of free 2 play, pay 2 win, casual gaming, vote them down with your wallets, where it hurts them the most.