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“Angry Birds Friends” Lets You Challenge Your Facebook Buddies
Rovio has announced a new game called “Angry Birds Friends.” Angry Birds Friends lets you play weekly challenges against your Facebook friends. Players can win gold crowns and power-ups for beating the scores of their friends. Rovio will release new levels for the game each week.
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Rovio’s Angry Birds Surpasses 1 Billion Downloads
Rovio has released their first financial figures this past week. Rovio is still debating whether or not to go public sometime. “This is a decision of Rovio’s owners if Rovio will file for IPO, when it would be and in what market,” stated Rovio CEO Mikael Hed. “These kind of decisions have not been made.”
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Angry Birds Space Skips Windows Phone
“Angry Birds Space” will not be available on the Microsoft Windows Phone application store. Some analysts are taking Rovio’s decision to avoid the Windows Phone as how successful they believe that platform is.
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Watch This Guy Play Angry Birds With A Real Slingshot [VIDEO]
The mbed Slingshot was crafted from a branch found in Epping Forest, London. It was digitally enabled with an mbed Microcontroller and the video above was filmed at the Cambridge Squash Club. What you are watching is a slingshot controller for the game. Pinching on the sling and pulling it back is like clicking on the slingshot in the game and dragging your mouse’s cursor back. The mbed slingshot would only work on the PC version of the game. [mbed via Gizmodo]
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Angry Birds Space Coming On March 22
Rovio is getting ready to launch a new game in the Angry Birds series. The game will be called Angry Birds Space. Angry Birds has hit over 700 million downloads across multiple platforms thus far.
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WATCH: Angry Birds Gingerbread House
Check out this home-made Angry Birds level made out of gingerbread. The birds and the pigs are made out of marzipan. Projects like these really showcase how much passion people have for Rovio’s Angry Birds brand.
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Wonderful Pistachios Launches Game On Angry Birds Called “The Hunt For The Golden Pistachio”
Through a partnership with Wonderful Pistachios, Rovio has built a level in the Angry Birds game called “The Hunt For The Golden Pistachio.” The game was launched yesterday and can be played on GetCrackin.com. The game requires the Chrome browser. The game-play is just like Angry Birds, but the birds are used for cracking open pistachios rather than taking out the pigs. Users will be able to win a total of $300,000 in prizes that range from free pistachios, Angry Birds toys, or $25,000 in cash. The prizes will be offered through December 31. [Mashable]
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A Peak Inside The Angry Birds Cookbook [GALLERY]
To further capitalize on the Angry Birds franchise, Rovio Mobile has released a cookbook with egg recipes. The cookbook is called Angry Birds: Bad Piggies’ Egg Recipes. The book contains egg recipes for breakfast plates, sandwiches, desserts, and sushi. If you want to see some photos from the book, check out pages 1-7 of this blog post. The cookbook was released by Nokia House. [Mashable]
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Rovio Turned Down $2.25 Billion Offer From Zynga
Social gaming company Zynga had made buy-out offers to mobile gaming companies PopCap and Rovio. Both companies turned down their respective buy-out offers. PopCap, developer of Plants vs. Zombies and Peggle, turned down $1 billion from Zynga. Rovio, developed of the Angry Birds franchise, turned down a $2.25 billion offer from Zynga. Zynga’s corporate culture was cited as one of the major reasons why the two companies turned down the offer. It is also believed that Zynga did not want to pay the amount that Rovio wanted. PopCap Games ended up being acquired by Electronic Arts. It is believed that PopCap took EA’s offer because their earn-out terms were simpler to meet. Zynga is expected to go public very soon. [BusinessInsider]
Categories Angry Birds, PopCap Games, Rovio, Zynga
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Angry Birds Sees 500 Million Downloads
Rovio’s Angry Birds has reached a major milestone. The company has hit 500 million downloads in under 2 years since the game launched. Angry Birds is a mobile game where players uses a slingshot to throw birds at pigs that stole their eggs. Angry Birds has stayed at the top of the charts since they launched for the Apple iPhone on December 11, 2009.
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Categories Angry Birds, Mikael Hed, Peter Vesterbacka, Rovio
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