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Angry Birds Star Wars now available for iOS and OS X

by Kelly Hodgkins (Nov 8th, 2012)

Rovio launched its much-anticipated Star Wars version of Angry Birds for the iPhone, iPad and Mac. The sci-fi themed edition will let you grab a lightsaber and use the force against those troublesome pigtroopers. The iPhone and iPod touch edition will set you back US$0.99, while the iPad ...

More on Angry Birds Star Wars, and location-based McD's promo in China

by Mike Schramm (Oct 23rd, 2012)

Rovio revealed a little while ago that a Star Wars-related Angry Birds release would be out for iOS on November 8, but since then the company has been posting various teaser videos combining the old Star Wars movies with the frustrated fowl. Leia is unimpressed with a Stormtrooper pig, the ...

Bad Piggies gets a ... cookbook

by Mike Schramm (Oct 12th, 2012)

As if our recent exploration of the Angry Birds universe didn't convey the franchise's might, here's another sign. A Bad Piggies cookbook is available. Actually, the hardcover, real-life version of Angry Birds: Bad Piggies' Egg Recipes was out for the holiday season last year, long before the ...

Here's a look at the whole universe of Angry Birds games (so far)

by Mike Schramm (Oct 3rd, 2012)

Bad Piggies is the latest title added to Rovio's growing universe of Angry Birds games, and the latest word is that it's the fastest-selling game in the company's history, hitting number one on the App Store just a few hours after it launched. Given all of the various Angry Birds properties ...

Bad Piggies will have you building custom vehicles for Angry Birds' piggies

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Sep 18th, 2012)

The original Angry Birds is a hugely successful franchise, all built on the seemingly simple mechanic of flicking some birds at structures and knocking them down. Bad Piggies, the antagonists in the Angry Birds franchise, are now getting their own franchise based on building things. Similar ...

Angry Birds' sequel Bad Piggies is official

by Mike Schramm (Sep 4th, 2012)

Rovio teased a title called "Bad Piggies" on various social networks last week, and now the game is official. Forbes traveled to Finland and got a first look at a brand new physics puzzle game set in the enormously popular Angry Birds universe. It's not completely clear how the game will ...

Cut The Rope, Beat The Traffic, Angry Birds Space and more updated today

by Mike Schramm (Aug 23rd, 2012)

We've already heard about some big updates on the App Store this week, but this regular Thursday is also full of them -- some of the App Store's biggest apps are getting big chunky updates to use or play with. Here's a rundown for you. Angry Birds Space has a Mars Curiosity rover-related ...

The Physics of Angry Birds updated for Space

by Mike Schramm (Mar 29th, 2012)

Ah, remember the early days of Angry Birds? Back when we were still fascinated by those frustrated feathered creatures and the hogs they so vehemently want to take down? That's when writer and physicist Rhett Allain published his original "Physics of Angry Birds" article, which used the ...

Rovio Entertainment acquires Futuremark Games Studio

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 27th, 2012)

Rovio is on fire right now. Last week, it launched Angry Birds Space and logged an impressive ten million downloads in three three days. Now, the company announced it has used some of its cash to acquire benchmark software maker Futuremark Games Studio, says a report in Venture Beat. Mikael ...

Angry Birds: Space logs 10 million downloads in 3 days

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 26th, 2012)

As spotted by The Verge, Rovio said in a Monday morning tweet that it recorded 10 million downloads of its Angry Birds Space in just three days. This is one of several recent iOS-related app milestones. Earlier this month, the iOS App Store climbed to 25 billion total downloads and the new ...

Angry Birds Space now available for the Mac, iPhone and iPad

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 22nd, 2012)

Today is a big day for Rovio. Angry Birds Space, the fourth spinoff of the Angry Birds series, is now available on multiple platforms including iOS and OS X. You can download the US$2.99 iPad version and the 99-cent iPhone version from the iTunes App Store. The $4.99 Mac version is also now ...

Rovio is making a non-Angry Birds game

by Mike Schramm (Feb 27th, 2012)

AllThingsD recently sat down to chat with Rovio CEO Mikael Hed, and while much of the news about Rovio from the past few years has been to do with its enormously popular Angry Birds franchise (the latest title of which will be Angry Birds Space -- stay tuned for more on that next month). But Hed ...

Rovio announces Angry Birds Space, coming March 22

by Mike Schramm (Feb 17th, 2012)

Just when you thought they were finally done -- they're coming back again. Rovio has announced that it will be releasing Angry Birds Space, and unfortunately, all we know about it, per the strange teaser trailer below, is that it'll be out on March 22. Presumably, this is just another iteration on ...

6.5 million downloads for Angry Birds on Christmas Day

by Mike Schramm (Jan 4th, 2012)

Rovio says that it saw a whopping 6.5 million downloads of Angry Birds this past Christmas Day, which is just phenomenal, even for this overwhelmingly popular game. That number is very close to the number of iOS and Android devices activated overall, which means that most people who got an ...

No Comment: Rovio exec's wife dresses up Angry Birds style

by Mike Schramm (Dec 7th, 2011)

In these pics over at the Hollywood Reporter, you can clearly see Peter Vesterbacka, the CEO of Rovio, who you may remember from his speech earlier this year at GDC 2011. The woman he's pictured with is none other than his wife, Teija Vesterbacka, who, according to the pictures, looks like a ...