Angry Birds Rovio's Amazing Alex Available Now

Rovigo, the maker of Angry Birds games - in which the players use slingshot to pigs, stealing the eggs of birds attack - was already rated by analysts at $ 6 billion to $ nine billionth

Rovigo’s new puzzle game, Amazing Alex was the # 1 Paid App in U.S. App Store, the key shortly after takeoff.

It could mean that the Finnish startup is more than a one-hit wonder.

Amazing Alex is physics-based game that challenges to solve curious boy Alex has.

The introduction of new franchises has turned to be difficult for even the most successful app vendors, but amazing Alex reached number one in the phone app-paid card in eight hours, said analyst Taro from the Finnish company mobile Elektra.

"This is the best time to hit the number one position in America - without help from being a sequel, movie tie-in or an extension of an existing brand. He said.

Rovigo, founded in 2003, was global phenomenon after it was introduced Angry Birds for the phone by Apple in late 2009 and has since concentrated on turns out sequels of the original hit.

This has helped to make it stay on top of gaming charts, with more than a billion downloads, and it had 200 million monthly visitors at the end of 2011, compared with US-based Zing 240 million.

Rovigo, sales jumped 10-fold to 100 million dollars last year, as players flocked to his title to download and the company has said it was considering an IPO.

In the past year increased $ 42 million Rovigo from venture capital firms including Ace Partners, which previously backed Face book, Badu, Skype founders Nikolas Zennstrom and the venture capital firm Atomic Ventures.

Rovigo’s assessment places them in rated about on par with Nokia € 5.8 billion at yesterday's closing price.