If your two favorite things in this world are Star Wars and Angry Birds, brace yourself because we're about to blow your mind. The two mega franchises are joining forces, so to speak, in a new game appropriately called Angry Birds Star Wars, and it's launching next month! According to Rovio, the upcoming title will combine the elements from Angry Birds and Angry Birds Space with the characters, stories, and settings of the Star Wars universe.
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Mass bird-death incidents have plagued regions as diverse as Arkansas, Louisiana, Italy, and Sweden in the last five months. Scientists have yet to fully explain why thousands of dead blackbirds, starlings, and turtle doves have fallen from the sky, but now a more troubling bird-death phenomenon is occurring in Finland, and it isn’t just challenging experts for explanations—it’s causing real fear in the scientific community.
There were hints early on that Google planned to add games to Google+, but the search giant wasn’t talking. Today Google has announced Games in Google+. Everyone’s biggest fear was that the conversation-focused Google+ experience would be harmed by casual gaming, but it appears that El Goog is doing all it can to keep that from happening.
News flash: Angry Birds is a huge hit. Alright, so maybe that isn't much of a news flash, but if you're curious as to just how popular it has become to fling birds at green pigs, castles, and other objects, then check this out. According to Rovio, Angry Birds has notched over 140 million downloads, which is higher than the population of Japan. And according to Rovio CEO Peter Vesterbacka, a big reason for the game's success is the iPhone.
Rovio, the Finnish developer of the Angry Birds mobile game franchise has announced a new installment of the popular bird launching game. Before you get your hopes up, the new Angry Birds Magic will only be available on Nokia phones running the newest "Anna" update, and will require users to interact with NFC tags to unlock levels.
Our insane stat of the day involves Rovio's Angry Birds Rio app, which has been downloaded a whopping 10 million times in just 10 days following its March 22 release. That includes downloads for both iOS and Android. Angry Birds Rio is a $0.99 download via iOS, but was made available for free on Android through an agreement with Amazon on its new Appstore for Android.
With different sprites and sound effects, Angry Birds could just have easily been called Cash Cow, because that's exactly what it is. We're not hatin', mind you; Angry Birds is hella fun and we wish developer Rovio all the success in the world. Some of that success has already come, with plush dolls and an animated series in the works, but if Rovio goes public like it wants to, the money made so far would seem like chump change.
What's this, a Facebook game that doesn't suck? That's what you're going to get with Rovio's popular Angry Birds, which is flying to Facebook later this year. It seems only fitting that one of the most popular casual games on the market is pairing with the biggest social networking site on the planet. So what can you can expect from the Facebook version?
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