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Rovio and Hasbro announced new mobile game, toy line, and other products planned for partnership on Angry Birds Transformers mash-up franchise.

This week in Jetsetter, we talk about how games change when they cross cultures and look at how the maker of Angry Birds is thinking about changing its game in India.

Rovio, the team behind Angry Birds, have started a publishing label for indie titles. It's first release is Icebreaker: A Viking Voyage, a great puzzle game.

Proving once again that Rovio is determined to move far beyond the success of Angry Birds, the game development company has announced it will being publishing, distributing, and marketing third- party apps.

After a few years of industry domination, it seems Rovio has finally decided to sync gamer progress across devices with Rovio Accounts.

The Facebook-connected Angry Birds Friends is now available on the App Store. Play against your friends on Facebook with daily and weekly updates.

This week in Digital Trends' Jetsetter, we take a look at Angry Birds studio Rovio's transformation into a publisher and one of Japan's best-known indie developers going corporate. The big story: The PlayStation 4's international release.

Finland's Rovio isn't a one trick pony. Angry Birds was successful, but so were Angry Birds: Star Wars and Bad Piggies! Spin-off success is one thing, but Rovio does see its future in developing new intellectual properties.

Angry Birds Star Wars officially arrives on November 8, and to herald its debut Rovio has issued a gameplay trailer that is pretty much exactly what you'd expect based on the game's title. Luckily, that's not a bad thing.