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Angry Birds sequel called Bad Piggies announced with trailer

Angry Birds sequel called Bad Piggies announced with trailer

You get to play as the Piggies.

Rovio expands by opening new stockholm studio and hires new GM

Rovio expands by opening new stockholm studio and hires new GM

Rovio has announced at GamesCom a new studio which will be set up in Stockholm along with an appointment of a general manager, who previously was the head of Battlefield Play4Free. Oskar Burman wi... Read More

Angry Birds Trilogy pricing makes for angry customers

Angry Birds Trilogy pricing makes for angry customers

Further to the announcement of the Angry Birds Trilogy, today the retail prices for the console version have been announced and they are ridiculous. The prices wwere confirmed to USA Today as being... Read More

Angry Birds Trilogy announced for Kinect, Move and 3DS

Angry Birds Trilogy announced for Kinect, Move and 3DS

Angry Birds trilogy will be released on the PS3, Xbox 360 and 3DS sometime next year. The game supports Kinect and Move motion controllers and contains three games: Angry Birds, Angry Birds Seaso... Read More

Angry Birds Space passes 50 million downloads within 35 days

Angry Birds Space passes 50 million downloads within 35 days

Angry Birds Space becomes the fastest growing mobile game by passing 50 million downloads within 35 days, according to Rovio. They have also mentioned that the game broke all previous records (d'uh)... Read More

Zynga bid $2 billion for Angry Birds, Rovio turned them down

Zynga bid $2 billion for Angry Birds, Rovio turned them down

Oh shit, it seems like Zynga wanted to expand their empire even more by offering $2 billion to Rovio for their lucrative IP, Angry Birds, according to few inside sources of Bloomberg. They denied, ... Read More

KISS Angry Birds A Possibility

KISS Angry Birds A Possibility

Whilst waiting to die, so they can be buried in their KISS coffin, there are many ways a KISS fan can occupy themselves. They could idle their way through a KISS comic, drink a refreshing glass of KIS... Read More

“Piracy can get us more business” – Rovio boss

“Piracy can get us more business” – Rovio boss

Rovio's boss has a pretty optimistic view towards piracy - he says that it "can get us" more business, and spread awareness. I see a lot of holes in that logic, since big budget AAA games cannot be ... Read More

6.5 million people download Angry Birds during Holiday

6.5 million people download Angry Birds during Holiday

It seems like everyone who buys Smartphones tends to get Angry Birds and that's exactly what happened on Holiday day, as the new phone activations almost amounted to the number of Angry Birds' downl... Read More

Tetris boss says Angry Birds is a fad

Tetris boss says Angry Birds is a fad

Tetris manager, Henk Rogers says Angry Birds is a fad, and he has his reasons for it. I won't say much but check out what he has to say. He mentioned these in an interview with Industry Gamers. "... Read More

Angry Birds now available on PC at retail

Angry Birds now available on PC at retail

Angry Birds, is now available on PC at retail. The original Angry Birds and Angry Birds Rio are the first two titles from Rovio Entertainment to arrive on PC at retail. Both games are now available... Read More

Angry Birds hits 500 million downloads

Angry Birds hits 500 million downloads

Rovio has announced that Angry Birds has been downloaded 500 million times. Yes, 500 MILLION. That's like, HALF-A-BILLION. It was also available for free so that may have resulted in so much downloa... Read More