When will the pain end? Not anytime soon, apparently. Rovio is content to milk the Angry Birds franchise for all it's worth, announcing that the next installment will involve motor racing. Angry Birds Heikki will be a web-based game that will launch on June 18th. Rovio say that the game won’t be a radical departure from existing Angry Birds games, but will feature “racing themes.”
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Angry Birds Heikki coming June 18th
Rovio confirms Casey’s Contraptions acquisition
Yesterday Angry Birds creator Rovio revealed that the franchise had hit one billion downloads across all available platforms. The video promised something was coming in the future, and finished with an unfamiliar character giving the viewer a little wink. Turns out he’s the star of the game Casey's Contraptions. Rovio has now confirmed that it has acquired the rights to the property from developers Snappy Touch and Mystery Coconut.
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Angry Birds reaches one billion downloads
Sometimes we lay awake at night pondering life, the universe, and everything. Other times we cry ourselves to sleep for not coming up with the idea of Angry Birds and making disgusting amounts of money. We imagine Rovio is feeling pretty pleased with itself right about now, as Angry Birds has amassed a total of one billion downloads since the games launch back in December 2009.
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Nokia outs Lumia app exclusives
Nokia Windows Phone users have a new batch of exclusive apps to look forward to, with the Finns revealing a handful of software details for Lumia including PGA Tour, Groupon and Angry Birds-themed special content. June will see the new PGA Tour app hit Lumia phones as a year-long exclusive, along with Live Tiles sports scores, team-level panoramas, score/league/team personalization, and the inclusion of tennis, NASCAR and the 2012 Olympics to the existing ESPN app this fall. More details after the cut.
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RIM’s three key goals for BlackBerry World 2012
The company known as Research in Motion will need to prove themselves substantially this year at their biggest developer event, BlackBerry World, if they hope to keep afloat for long. To do this, they've got a bit of work to do, work that can be summarized in three easy points that are not so easy to make a reality. Let's have a look at what BlackBerry's makers can do to keep what's traditionally been the business end of the mobile world alive.
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Angry Birds Space now hottest mobile game in history
Rovio reports today that their new masterpiece of a bird-hurling mobile game Angry Birds Space has broken the record for fastest-selling mobile game of all time. With 50 million downloads inside 35 days after launch, this space-headed game broke both the highest selling Rovio games' records as well as the rest of the mobile app world for quick sales with a baseball bat. This game is the newest expansion for Rovio in the Angry Birds line of games and is the pre-cursor for what we believe will be a Simpsons-themed game.
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Angry Birds Simpsons in Space is next
Today an update to Angry Birds Space has been dropped down for several platforms, it including no less than a teaser for a Simpsons expansion in the near future. What this expansion has to do with outer space, we cannot say, but if that's not a Simpsons-themed pink sprinkled donut, I'll eat my hat. This wont be the first time Rovio has chosen to work with a high-class pop-culture act like the Simpsons, and it wont be the last. It will however be the first time the crew has worked with a television show - perhaps this is their ushering in of their own program?
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Warn your friends about fake Angry Birds apps
This week the folks at Rovio have gone out of their way to warn new users of their all-powerful game family to seek out the real version of Angry Birds Space, avoiding all shams. As it has been since the beginning of game downloads and as it shall be until the end, fakers and cash-grabbers are creating apps which purport to be the official version, only to contain either a broken version of said game – or worse: hacks. What we’ve done here is to link to all of the Angry Birds games on the Apple App Store for iOS, Google Play, the Nokia Store, and BlackBerry App World.
Nokia Lumia 900 vs iPhone 4: The $99 Showdown
Big news today is Nokia’s US re-entry, with the Lumia 900 scoring some cautiously congratulatory reviews – ours included – at an ambitious AT&T price point and the heft of Microsoft behind it. Of course, the LTE Lumia goes up against a serious smartphone heavyweight, with Apple’s iPhone 4 dominating the same $99 niche. It may be the last-gen model, but the iPhone 4 is still a mighty popular device and the iOS and App Store combination makes for a strong argument. Strap on your smartphone helmets, people, it’s time to get competitive.
Angry Birds animated series coming this fall on all devices
If ever there were a game that begged to be a children's animated TV show, Angry Birds is it. It's not quite Saturday morning cartoons, but Rovio Mobile has announced that it intends to launch a new animated series with 52 episodes per year on "all possible devices" this fall. These won't be half-hour shows, but rather short form two or three-minute episodes.
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New iPad Hot Five Retina Apps Countdown
This week the developers are really coming in hot with the Retina Display-ready applications and games for the new iPad, all of them having had plenty of time to upgrade their wares in the first couple of weeks since the device was released. Though a handful of developers had apps ready and waiting for the dropping of the iPad with its powerful new display, some second-wave heroes, like Rovio in this case, are bringing the fury with intensely well-selling games like Angry Birds: Space HD. Have a peek at this best of the best list and forever hold your pixels!
Rovio and Zynga battle for mobile and social gaming supremacy
This morning it was announced by Finnish mobile entertainment company and Angry Birds creator Rovio that they'd acquired Futuremark Games studio. Last week we heard that Zynga picked up the makers of Draw Something, the fabulously titled OMGPOP. Now what we've got is a silent war on our hands, not to destroy one another, but to gain sway over the social networking and mobile gaming worlds startup by startup. Zynga currently dominates the social aspect of this equation, while Rovio is tearing through mobile gaming with a hot knife, carrying out a release of its newest game Angry Birds: Space with healthy precision.
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