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Starbucks mobilizes Pick of the Week, gives away Angry Birds Star Wars
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Skip those printed iTunes cards and pick up the Starbucks app instead, as the coffee company is finally serving up app and book downloads in a less old-fashioned way, CNET has learned. [Read more]
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Heads up, space fans! Angry Birds roosting at NASA spaceport
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on March 25, 2013
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Guns N’ Roses’ Slash joins Angry Birds Space, performs theme song cover
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on March 9, 2013
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Angry Birds Space just got a new cadet, with Rovio announcing a bit ago that Guns N’ Roses’ guitarist Slash has performed a cover of the game’s theme song, and has also been immortalized with his own guitar-wielding Angry Bird character. You can listen to the cover song, hear what Slash has to say on
Rovio Pulls Down Paywall For Original Angry Birds On iPhone, iPad To Reignite Downloads On Legacy Games
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on March 7, 2013
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Angry Birds may be one of the most popular apps of all time, but it’s also not exactly a spring chicken, and so, to boost its downloads, publisher Rovio is now making the original iOS versions for iPhone and iPad free. According to Ouriel Ohayon of Appsfire, who was the first to have spotted this, this is the first time Rovio has taken down the paywall on these versions. The moves come as some have observed that Rovio has of late fallen out of the top 80 highest grossing iPhone apps — for the first time since May 2010.
MyMultitouch 84-inch 4K touch-display hands-on: Angry Birds goes massive
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on March 5, 2013
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Angry Birds on an 84-inch 4K tablet? Not quite, but if your iPad or Nexus 10 simply isn’t big enough or high-res enough, MyMultitouch has an 84-inch beast to offer instead. The Germany company is showing off its biggest multitouch table/display to-date at CeBIT, a vast 3.840 x 2,160 Ultra HD screen called the Alvaro
‘Angry Birds Toons’ TV series to launch March 16
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Rovio’s wildly popular game is now an animated television series that let’s viewers watch what is happening “deep in the heart of Piggy Island.” [Read more]
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Angry Birds cartoon premiering March 16
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on February 26, 2013
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Angry Birds Star Wars adds 20 levels in Escape from Hoth update [hands-on]
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on January 31, 2013
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BlackBerry 10 launches with 70,000 apps: Angry Birds, Skype, more
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on January 30, 2013
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BlackBerry has detailed some of the 70,000 apps that will be available on BlackBerry 10 at launch, with high-profile titles like Skype, Angry Birds, and Twitter all ready to go. The fresh new platform – which will debut on the Q10 and Z10 smartphones – will also get Facebook and Amazon’s Kindle ebook reader. They’ll all
Angry Birds-Maker Rovio Crossed 263M Monthly Active Users Last Month
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Rovio, the Finnish makers of Angry Birds, said they crossed 263 million monthly active users in December, with 30 million downloads in Christmas week alone and 8 million downloads on Christmas Day. The figure is about 30 percent higher than the 200 million monthly active users the company had at the end of 2011. For perspective, 263 million monthly actives is nearly as many as Zynga has. Zynga reported 311 million monthly active users in the third quarter of last year, and tracking site AppData says that the company currently has 264 million monthly active users on Facebook. Rovio, which found its landmark hit on the iOS platform on its 52nd attempt at launching a game, has set increasingly lofty (and some say, crazy) goals year after year. At an interview I did with the company in November, the company’s chief marketing officer Peter Vesterbacka said he wanted Rovio to be the first entertainment brand with 1 billion a users a day (or as many as Coca-Cola interacts with). The path to that involves not just smartphone games, but loads of licensed merchandise, animated shorts, a feature length film, and potentially hundreds of activity and amusement parks in China and throughout the world. China recently became Rovio’s biggest market by daily active users. The company expects that around half or more of its revenue will eventually come from real-world goods (not virtual ones).
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Angry Birds Star Wars arrives on Facebook
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on December 19, 2012
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If you can’t get enough Angry Birds Star Wars action on your phone or tablet, then you’ll be pleased to know that it landed on Facebook today. Now you can play through Rovio‘s take on the Star Wars universe with your Facebook profile, letting everyone know about it in the process. You’re getting mostly the
Review: The force is strong In ‘Angry Birds Star Wars’
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on November 9, 2012
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‘Angry Birds Star Wars’ launching next month
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on October 10, 2012
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Feel the Force: Angry Birds Star Wars coming November 8th to iOS, Android and computers
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on October 8, 2012
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Rovio teased a certain film-inspired Angry Birds picture a long, long last week, and as expected, it’s another new game — Angry Birds Star Wars. Our furious feathered friends are assuming the likenesses of characters from the epic saga, with the trusty Red Bird taking on Luke Skywalker’s role. It wouldn’t be the Rebel Alliance without a dark side to fight, which is where the Pigs fit into the storyline; even the music and levels for gravity-based play will hark back to the film franchise. In addition to the software, details of related merchandise have also been uncovered, including table games, toys and costumes. The game is out on November 8th for iOS, Android and computers, and if it follows the original storyline, we wonder how Red Bird’s going to feel about his porcine family history.
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Finnish based Holiday Club to build Angry Birds Activity Parks
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on October 2, 2012
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Green Day make cameo in Angry Birds Facebook offering as mascara-wearing egg thieves
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on August 20, 2012
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Punk’s not dead, it’s just diversifying its portfolio. Having already conquered Broadway, East Bay pop-punkers Green Day are hitting the world of casual gaming with a new episode of Facebook’s Angry Birds Friends that features pig opponents “inspired by band members Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt, and Tre Cool.” The offering also features “Troublemaker,” an exclusive song that is most likely a tribute to the hard living ways of porcine egg thieves. Asked to justify his pro-swine stance, Pinhead Gunpowder member Armstrong answered, “We’re all fans of Angry Birds. It’s such an addictive game that when we first started playing it we couldn’t stop. Go Team Green!”
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Angry Birds Seasons getting a new pink-feathered character
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on August 12, 2012
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Rovio has introduced a new character for Angry Birds Seasons, a pink-feathered fowl who apparently likes to blow bubbles. This new bird, named simply “Pink Bird,” will be debuting in a new update for the immensely popular game. Alas, we don’t know when the update is scheduled to land, but with Rovio giving the update
Angry Birds tangible slingshot controller lets you get hands-on
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on August 8, 2012
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Take out those evil piggies in style with Super Angry Birds, a prototype physical slingshot controller that brings the physics battle into the real world.
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Fake users and an angry developer — Facebook’s bad week
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on August 2, 2012
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As their company’s stock continued to slump, Facebook executives had to face not one but two other pieces of tough news this week.
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Angry Mac owners raise Twitter ruckus over missing OS X upgrade codes
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on July 27, 2012
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New Mac owners took their frustration with Apple onto Twitter today as they groused that they have not received redemption codes for the free copy of OS X Mountain Lion they were promised.
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Rovio hints at potential level editor coming to Angry Birds
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on July 26, 2012
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Rovio recently gave us a big hint on the Angry Birds Facebook page that a level editor could be coming soon to the game. The Facebook post showed an image of a green pig with building blocks surrounding it, and the pig having thought bubbles illustrating how the blocks might be put together. The new
Samsung confirms Angry Birds TV app plans
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on July 19, 2012
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Samsung and Rovio are going after a couple different segments of the population – those who own an Internet-connected Samsung TV and have somehow managed to never play Angry Birds, and those who own an Internet-connected Samsung TV and cannot get enough Angry Birds. Given that the former consists of people who have never downloaded
Passwords leaked from Yahoo: Boozy, preachy, angry — and easy
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on July 13, 2012
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For 333 people who used "ninja" as a password for Yahoo Mail or another Web service, Thursday was the day their fleet-footed, black-clad cover was blown.
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Angry Birds trilogy coming to a console near you
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on July 11, 2012
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As it continues the transition from mobile devices, Angry Birds fans will now be able to purchase the popular games for their console too.
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Rovio may be planning Angry Birds version to play as pigs
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on July 6, 2012
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App Store Bug Corrupts Binaries; Angry Birds Crash
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on July 5, 2012
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First time accepted submitter bargainsale writes “Many recent updates from Apple’s App store are crashing immediately, including Instapaper. Instapaper’s creator, Marco Arment, thinks this is due to corrupt binaries being distributed. As Angry Birds Space is among those affected, there is some hope that Apple may acknowledge the problem and fix it …”
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Angry Birds Heikki: because F1 and fort-breaking games are like peanut butter and chocolate
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on June 25, 2012
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We’ve seen Angry Birds go into strange places both figurative and literal, but Formula 1 racing? That’s a less natural mix than a peanut butter cup. As a way of backing race driver and fellow Finland native Heikki Kovalainen, Rovio has crafted Angry Birds Heikki, a free web game themed all around its namesake’s escapades during the F1 race year. The gameplay changes are more cosmetic than functional, although that leaderboard matters a little more in spirit than it might otherwise. Perhaps the biggest draw is simply that your gameplay schedule is intrinsically linked to Heikki’s: new sections only unlock as the real-world races get near, so you’ll have an incentive to keep coming back until the Sao Paulo race determines the F1 championship on November 21st. Let’s just hope that there aren’t too many road hogs spoiling either Heikki’s fun or our own.
[Thanks, Rodrigo]
Angry Birds Heikki: because F1 and fort-breaking games are like peanut butter and chocolate originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 25 Jun 2012 19:22:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Taxes Lead Angry Birds Maker Rovio To Consider Move To Ireland
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on June 10, 2012
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jones_supa writes with this news, straight from The Irish Times: “Rovio, the Finnish company behind Angry Birds, is considering moving its headquarters to Ireland, chief executive Mikael Hed has said. Rovio employs approximately 400 people, mostly in Finland, but Rovio is in contact with IDA Ireland about establishing headquarters here. The reason for the move would be corporation tax rate, which in Finland is 24.5%, while Ireland’s rate is 12.5%. Companies such as Google and Facebook have also set up European headquarter operations in Dublin for the same reason. Hed said that if the decision was made to move to Ireland, the company would then decide exactly what elements of its operations would move. ‘If we did make that decision then it would be a natural thing to do to have some production [in Ireland] also.’”
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That didn’t take long: Angry Birds Space hits 100 million downloads
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on June 6, 2012
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The game hit 50 million downloads at the end of April, and has averaged about 50 million downloads for every 35 days.
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Powerful ‘Flame’ cyberweapon tied to powerfully Angry Birds
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on May 30, 2012
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Nokia Lumia 610 can’t install Angry Birds, Skype, and more
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on May 30, 2012
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But fans of flinging fowl will be glad to hear a version of Angry Birds is on its way for the budget 610 and other Windows Phones with low memory.
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Angry Birds and PES 2012 join Skype: won’t work on Windows Phones with 256MB RAM
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on May 28, 2012
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Putting the squeeze on those hardware specifications has lead to several more app casualties on Microsoft’s ever-growing mobile platform. Unfortunately, it includes one of mobile gaming’s biggest hitters: Angry Birds. We gave installation a go on our own Lumia 610 and were met with the unfortunate message seen above. According to WindowsPhoneApps Spanish, it’s not the only one affected by the reduction in RAM on these lower-priced smartphones. PES 2012 won’t run on the lower-specced smartphone, while videocall app Tango also joins its rival Skype on the no-go list.
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Rovio’s FB App, Angry Birds Friends, Flies Out Of Beta With Tournament Mode, New Levels & More
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on May 23, 2012
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Well, well, well. As if you couldn’t get your fix of sling-shotting irascible fowl on every other mobile and social platform known to man, Rovio announced this morning that Angry Birds for Facebook (officially known as Angry Birds Friends) has finally done flown the coop and left the warm nest of its beta. Avian double-speak aside, what does that mean exactly?
It means that, having gone through the requisite user testing, tweaking, and multi-billion-dollar IPO-ing, Rovio’s Facebook app is ready for public consumption, with a couple of new features in tow. Angry Birds Friends now boasts tournament mode, new weekly levels, a handful of new ways to earn power-ups, and, of course, tons of social integration.
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Angry Birds Heikki coming June 18th
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on May 18, 2012
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When will the pain end? Not anytime soon, apparently. Rovio is content to milk the Angry Birds franchise for all it’s worth, announcing that the next installment will involve motor racing. Angry Birds Heikki will be a web-based game that will launch on June 18th. Rovio say that the game won’t be a radical departure
Angry Birds maker rakes in the revenue
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on May 7, 2012
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Rovio, the company behind the hit-the-pigs game, says it generated $ 106.3 million in revenue and posted a $ 67.6 million profit on the franchise in 2011.
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Angry Birds Space now hottest mobile game in history
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on April 30, 2012
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Rovio reports today that their new masterpiece of a bird-hurling mobile game Angry Birds Space has broken the record for fastest-selling mobile game of all time. With 50 million downloads inside 35 days after launch, this space-headed game broke both the highest selling Rovio games’ records as well as the rest of the mobile app
Angry Birds Simpsons in Space is next
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on April 25, 2012
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Today an update to Angry Birds Space has been dropped down for several platforms, it including no less than a teaser for a Simpsons expansion in the near future. What this expansion has to do with outer space, we cannot say, but if that’s not a Simpsons-themed pink sprinkled donut, I’ll eat my hat. This
Warn your friends about fake Angry Birds apps
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on April 15, 2012
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Zynga’s ‘Draw Something’ slingshots past ‘Angry Birds’
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on April 6, 2012
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Angry Birds remote control helicopter hates pigs
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on April 5, 2012
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This may be the coolest little remote control helicopter I’ve ever seen. It has dual counter rotating rotor blades of top and a red unibrowed Angry Bird instead of a helicopter body. The helicopter is designed for indoor and outdoor play and promises to be easy to control and survive the inevitable crashes that come
Angry Birds, the cartoon series, due this fall
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Game maker Rovio reveals that an animated series and movie about the wildly popular game are in the works.
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Switched On: Angry Nerds
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on April 1, 2012
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Oh no! The evil pigs of purchase inhibition taken the valuable eggs of smartphone desire and captured them within a complex structure. Fortunately, there are a number of powerful birds that can be slung through the air, space or various sets of children’s movies to smash down the structure. Why can’t they just fly through the air since they’re birds, you may ask? Gee, you sure ask a lot of questions. Just plunk down your $ 0.99 and gear up for in-app purchases for these valuable premiums.
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Angry Birds’ Maker Rovio Ups Its Game, Buys Futuremark’s Games Studio
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on March 27, 2012
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Rovio has made a killing out of its Angry Birds franchise, and today it announced a deal that points to how the mobile games maker is hard at work developing what could well be the follow up to that: today it announced that it has bought Futuremark Games Studio, the gaming arm of software developer Futuremark.
Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. The team behind Futuremark Games Studio, also based in Finland like Rovio, are all coming over in the deal. Games that the developer has made include Unstoppable Gorg and Hungribles, as well as Shattered Horizon — which, like Angry Birds Space, plays with the zero gravity concept.
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Great sling shot games that aren’t named Angry Birds
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on March 24, 2012
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Angry Birds Space is the big mobile game release this week, but there are plenty of slingshot games worthy of your iOS device.
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Angry Birds goes giant with Seattle Space Needle
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on March 23, 2012
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The brand new Angry Birds: Space launch has hit a new level of gigantism with an abnormally oversized Red Bird tied on to the Seattle Space Needle. This landmark gains new meaning as the physics-based entertainment game adds its own 300 foot tall slingshot as fans were invited to the top of the beast to
Angry Birds Space won’t land on Windows Phone, Redmond gets no stars
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on March 23, 2012
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While no doubt swathes of Android and iOS users have experienced massive productivity slumps since Angry Birds Space came out this week, Windows Phone owners will be left staring at their spreadsheets. Peter Vesterbacka, chief marketing officer, at Rovio has told Bloomberg that there are no plans to release the latest iteration of the popular time sink on Microsoft’s mobile platform. Despite the original game still being the most popular app in the Marketplace, Vesterbacka claims that “…it’s a big undertaking to support it, and you have to completely rewrite the application.” So, until a Series 40 version is confirmed, you bird slingin’ Nokia fans will just have to wait.
Angry Birds Space won’t land on Windows Phone, Redmond gets no stars originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 23 Mar 2012 07:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Angry Birds Space Lands At Last
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on March 22, 2012
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Bird-lovers and pig-haters, today is your lucky day: Rovio has finally pushed the button on the launch of its newest installation of its hugely successful Angry Birds franchise: Angry Birds Space.
The game — which Mighty Eagle Peter Vesterbacka told us last week will be its biggest launch yet — is marked by new characters, a new physics engine and a whole new setting that will take the familiar concept of catapulting birds to destroy pig houses to a whole new frontier.
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Angry Birds Space to splash down Thursday
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on March 20, 2012
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