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Is Rovio’s Amazing Alex a Worthy Successor to Angry Birds?
Amazing Alex, Rovio’s touch-based mobile followup to Angry Birds (or in sequential-ese, Angry Birds Space) blindsided me. A new physics-angled game from the company that’s seen over a billion app downloads, with an estimated …
The Right Stuff: Angry Birds Space Tops 10M Downloads in Three Days
Angry Birds Space developer Rovio just made a bold claim about its latest bird-tossing time-killer: 10 million downloads in three days. The company announced the figure on its Twitter feed this morning.
Tablet, smartphone and …
New Angry Birds Announcement from the International Space Station
Earlier, Rovio released a few hints of what to expect from Angry Birds Space. We knew that it would take place in… well, space, and that it would include some new birds and new physics.
Today, the company revealed some …
Rovio Announces Angry Birds Space Release for March 22
As the Muppets taught us all those years ago, the cosmos are absolutely filled with pigs. Thus it makes sense that Rovio’s next big title will be Angry Birds Space, where you’ll be able to launch birds at their porcine enemies in …
Rovio CEO Says ‘Piracy May Not Be a Bad Thing’ for Angry Birds Brand
With the phenomenal success of Angry Birds, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Rovio would be anxiously protecting its core product from every instance of piracy imaginable. As the company’s CEO explains, however, the opposite …
Angry Birds Is Coming to Facebook on Valentine’s Day
In a development sure to kill office productivity around the world, Rovio founder Peter Vesterbacka announced that Angry Birds is coming to Facebook on Valentine’s Day.
Vesterbacka told Asian tech blog Penn Olson that Rovio is …
Angry Birds, Now Serving over Half a Billion
Move over McDonald’s, Angry Birds has you beat by a factor of eight: Developer Rovio says the popular bird-flinging, pig-pummeling mobile game for iPhone and Android mobiles has been downloaded over 500 million times across all platforms since it launched not quite two years ago.
Popping up my iPhone 4’s App Store, there it is, …
Is Disney Interested in ‘Angry Birds’?
With cookbooks, toys and a rumored movie spinning off from their successful Angry Birds app, some have thought of Rovio as a wannabe Disney. But if rumors are true, Disney might actually be looking at the app maker with a view to helping it on its way to world domination.
Rovio and Roku Partner to Bring ‘Angry Birds’ to Your TV Set
Interesting. See that thing up there? That’s Roku. It’s a nice, inexpensive, internet-connected box that you hook up to your TV. Once it’s set up, you can use it to stream movies and TV shows from the likes of Hulu Plus, Netflix, and Amazon, plus music and photos from Pandora and Flickr, respectively.
But the company has just …
Angry Birds Magic Introduced for Nokia C7
For Angry Birds aficionados, there’s some good and some bad news.
The good: You’ll soon have a new opportunity to fling our feathered friends at piles of smirking pigs courtesy a new edition of the game dubbed “Angry Birds Magic.”
And the bad: It’s only available for Nokia’s C7 Smartphone, which employs near field …
Angry Birds Rio Gets 10 Million Downloads in 10 Days
Angry Birds Rio has been downloaded 10 million times in less than two weeks. If you can’t do the relatively simple math, that’s ohhhh, about one million downloads for every day since it’s been out.
Rovio, the developer, didn’t say how many people downloaded the free or paid version of the game. The day that the Amazon app …