Angry Birds Star Wars took the US App Store top spot in under 2.5 hours, developer Rovio has confirmed, breaking release-day records for the company. Rovio hasn't released exact sales numbers for the game, which was pushed out into the App Store - along with the Android Play market, Amazon's Appstore for Android, the Windows Phone Marketplace, and in versions for Mac and Windows - yesterday, the title is available in two versions for iOS devices, both regular for iPhone/iPod touch, and HD for the iPad.
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Angry Birds Star Wars grabs US iOS top spot in record time
Angry Birds Star Wars released in cross-platform gush
Angry Birds Star Wars has been released, the latest installment of Rovio’s best-selling fling ‘em franchise, this time with a tie-in to the perennially popular LucasArts movie series. Available across multiple platforms – iOS, Android, Kindle Fire, Mac, Windows, and even Windows Phone from day one - and in both SD and HD versions on select devices, the new game borrows the gravity effects from Angry Birds Space but gives the birds themselves Jedi-style powers.
Rovio launches “official gameplay trailer” for Angry Birds Star Wars
The release day for Rovio's latest Angry Birds installment is quickly approaching, and we're finally within just days of the launch of Angry Birds Star Wars. Rovio has released several teaser trailers over the past couple of weeks, but today they launched what they call the "official gameplay trailer."
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Angry Birds Star Wars unveils first gameplay video
We've been hearing from Rovio a lot lately due to their upcoming Angry Birds and Star Wars mash-up title. Several teaser trailers have already been released to the public, but today we're getting our first glimpse at the gameplay of Angry Birds Star Wars. We don't get to see a lot, but we finally get to see what it will look like.
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SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: October 19, 2012
Welcome to Friday evening, everyone. We're about ready to kick off the weekend, but before we do, let's recap the news from the afternoon. Today we heard that the iPad Mini might mean the end of the iPad 2, and that a jailbreak for the iPhone 5 will coming shortly. We learned today that T-Mobile will be holding a product event on October 29 - the same day that Google and Microsoft are holding events - and that the prices of the rumored Mac Mini and iMac refreshes might be staying the same.
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New Angry Birds Star Wars teaser shows they’re too short to be stormtroopers
In typical fashion, Rovio has released another teaser for its upcoming Star Wars-themed Angry Birds sequel. It's a lot similar to the last teaser we saw, in that it shows a short clip from A New Hope, followed by another short clip that features the Angry Birds in some fashion. This time around, Princess Leia and an Angry Birds stormtrooper make an appearance.
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New Angry Birds Star Wars teaser features the Millennium Falcon
Star Wars is popular -- that's about as simple as you could put it. So it's no wonder that companies and brands are licensing the movie franchise in order to boost sales. Microsoft did it with their Xbox 360 and Motorola with their DROID 2. Rovio has now joined in on the fun and released another teaser trailer for Angry Birds Star Wars that will surely whet your appetite.
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Angry Birds update arrives with 15 new levels
Hot on the heels of Rovio's recently launched spin-off of the Angry Birds series, Bad Piggies, the developer has released a set of new levels for the original Angry Birds game that are based off Rovio's newest title. Bad Piggies was a huge hit for Rovio, and now they're looking to spread a little bit of the game's goodness to their other popular title.
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Fake Bad Piggies app infested 82,000 Google Chrome users with adware
If you happened to get in on the Bad Piggies action recently, let's hope you didn't accidentally download and install the fake version in the Google Chrome Web Store. It turns out over 80,000 Chrome users are now being affected by the adware, which installs a plug-in that displays advertisements when you visit popular websites.
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SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: October 8, 2012
Welcome to Monday evening everyone. Today featured a couple of a big stories, including the House Intelligence Committee warning of Huawei and ZTE potentially allowing the Chinese government to spy on the US. Huawei was quick to release a statement giving us its own side of the story and defending its business, and those US lawmakers also delivered a list of five things the government must do to prevent Huawei and ZTE from helping China with espionage.
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Angry Birds Star Wars details continue to spill
Those of you waiting for the release of Rovio's Angry Birds Star Wars game release will have to wait until November 8th, but for now, you've got details upon details spilling in all directions. What we know thus far is that you'll be working with Angry Birds that are specific to their character - Luke Skywalker, Rebel Pilot will be one without a doubt. What we've also learned since this morning's big re-announcement is that Angry Luke will be carrying a lightsaber - and that Han, Chewie, Leia, and the rest will be bringing their own heat as well.
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Angry Birds Star Wars coming November 8
Rovio has kept up on its word about giving us some more details on the Stars Wars-themed Angry Birds sequel that was teased on Friday. Rovio has officially announced Angry Birds Star Wars, and it'll be available for download on iOS, Android, Windows, and Mac on November 8 -- exactly one month from now.
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