Rovio has launched ‘Rovio Accounts’, a cross-app, cross-platform log-in system for its games that allows users to avoid wasting progress and continue playing where they left off on another device.

As well as being a handy feature for app users, it may possibly prove useful to Rovio as a method of linking together its various properties, which haven’t seen the identical success because the Angry Birds franchise.

To this end, it’s worth noting that the functionality is initially only available on an international basis within the Croods, its tie-in app to the film of an identical name – though in Finland and Poland, additionally it is available for the unique Angry Birds.