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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 ...

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 ...

Angry Birds Star Wars coming to your galaxy November 8

by Steven Sande (Oct 8th, 2012)

A long time ago, in an iOS app far, far away.... Back in 2009, an iPhone-exclusive game called Angry Birds arrived and became an instant hit. The game has become a huge franchise, with five sequels generating over 1 billion downloads on a number of platforms. Now Rovio has released a trailer ...

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 ...

Rovio's Amazing Alex arrives this week

by Mike Schramm (Jul 10th, 2012)

Rovio has obviously had a ton of success (the most success on the App Store, arguably) with Angry Birds, but the company hasn't done much outside of that brand since it launched. That's all going to change later on this week, when Amazing Alex arrives as the first non-Angry Birds followup from ...

Rovio rebranding Casey's Contraptions as "Amazing Alex"

by Mike Schramm (May 11th, 2012)

We're hearing a little more every day about Rovio's next big mobile title. Originally, we thought that the game would be a truly original release, but that's not quite the case: The company has instead bought the rights to Casey's Contraptions, a really excellent iOS title that came out last ...

Confirmed: Rovio acquires rights to Casey's Contraptions

by Mike Schramm (May 10th, 2012)

Rovio's Ville Heijari has confirmed the rumor we heard yesterday is true, and Rovio is taking over the iOS Casey's Contraptions title from developers Noel Llopis and Miguel A. Friginal. We're still not sure what the exact business agreement is, but it sounds like an acquisition of all rights ...

Rumor: Rovio's new game is Casey's Contraptions

by Mike Schramm (May 9th, 2012)

148Apps has done a little bit of digging, and has possibly discovered what Angry Birds creators Rovio are up to next. Rovio recently released a thank you/teaser video for a full billion Angry Birds downloads, and in the very end of that video, a character appears: It's a younger kid, with some ...

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 ...

The Daily hints at iPhone version

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 21st, 2012)

Speaking to Venture Beat, Greg Clayman, the publisher of the iPad-only newspaper The Daily, hinted at a forthcoming version of its newspaper app for the iPhone. Clayman said a scaled-down Daily might just look like its recently released standalone guide to Angry Birds Space. The Daily's team ...