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#angrybirds Some 300 million downloads later, Rovio's mobile hit Angry Birds has reached a very important milestone. Like recent-ish pop culture sensations Harry Potter, Justin Bieber and Mark Zuckerburg, Angry Birds graces the cover of a new issue of MAD Magazine. More »

#angrybirds As we approach the point of total global Angry Birds saturation, one important demographic has been left out of the fowl-flinging sensation: Babies. Rovio's new partnership with baby product company SwaddleDesigns might stop infants from crying over lack of spilled pork. More »

Let's boil it down: Angry Birds is about kidnapping and vengeance. A tale of fowl wrath and the sins of sows. This fan-made motion comic is more in line with the themes of Angry Birds than the actual game.

#howto Bakers have worked to capture the beauty of our favorite video games in cake form since the dawn of time. From amateur bakers to world famous chefs, video game cakes are a staple of any cook worth their weight in fondant. Now it's your time to get your hands sticky and create your own masterpiece. More »

#angrybirds The kids these days. They're takin' a shit, and boom, they got a game in their hands. More »

#watchthis Angry Birds is not just a game. See, the birds are angry because the pigs took their eggs—eggs the birds worked for. More »

#roperescue I saw a Chillingo game at Electronic Arts' fall preview event last night that featured colorful, cartoon birds in peril and ropes that could be cut. More »

#wellplayed Galileo discovered the language of nature. Einstein questioned the color of rainbows. Today's physicists ponder the vertical acceleration and horizontal velocity of an angry bird in flight. More »

#blip Someone needs to "fix" this so the bird starts off in a mailbox. [Reddit] More »

Over the next three years, over 200 Angry Birds merchandise stores will open in China thanks to a deal with the game's developer Rovio and a Chinese portal. Merchandise includes the usual suspects: t-shirts, stuffed animals, and toys. [New Launches] More »

#chompingatthebit Over thirty years ago, Toru Iwatani (not pictured) created Pac-Man. Decades later, it's a game people still remember and still play. That, Iwatani said, is what game designers must do today. They must create games that stand the test of time. More »

#birdwatching The executive producer of blockbuster Marvel movies like Iron Man and Thor is now the executive producer of...any and all upcoming Angry Birds movies. More »

#educationgoestothepigs I'm a bit of a physics hobbyist. That doesn't mean that I understand or can even converse in the language of motion, but I love reading about it. More »

#blip Angry Birds developer Rovio is working on more Angry Birds. One is called Wine and Dine and stars the game's green pigs instead of the birds. Another game is Angry Birds Magic, a location-based title that rewards players on where they play the game and will interact with the chipped Angry Birds plush toys. More »

#roku Roku is branching outside its video streaming roots and bringing casual games to its set-top boxes this summer. More »

#fanart The Angry Ass Birds are ready to lay down some serious firepower in Anthony Jones' hilarious fan art redesign. "Get to da slingshot!!!" More »

The Next11 Conference, a two-day event where "people discuss and experience how the consumer on the Internet will be evolving," held host to the latest milestone for Angry Birds: a combined 200 million downloads. Admittedly, it's available on everything ... ever.

Rovio's Mighty Eagle and Angry Birds creator himself, Peter Vesterbacka, took to the stage yesterday (via TechCrunch) and padded the announcement with another figure: five million web downloads, just a week after the Google I/O 2011 announcement of a browser-based version.

Hit the jump for a video where Vesterbacka reveals the news.

#watchthis We're a bit behind on this one, but no matter: warbling wunderkinds Jack Conte and Nataly Dawn have managed to squeeze a full minute of dueling out of Angry Birds' simple theme. [Pamplamoose Music on Youtube] More »

#watchthis To promote Angry Birds, Deutsche Telekom and game developer Rovio joined forces for a video in the Spanish city of Terrassa, reports Spanish site Hasta los Juegos. More »

#customcars Spotted on an Ohio Freeway, this heavily customized Angry Birds-themed car is either a great meta-commentary on distracted driving or merely the most Internet relevant donk since the Facebook Caprice. More »

Finnish developer Rovio Mobile marked yet another victory in its ongoing plan to bring the incredibly popular Angry Birds to every possible electronic device that human beings use, announcing during Google's I/O 2011 Conference that Angry Birds is available as an in-browser application. Like ... right now!

Like the Android version, it's free-to-play and microtransaction-supported, but unlike the Android version, a handful of web-exclusive features have been added. Notably, "Chrome bombs" and some "exclusive Chrome levels" are both new additions -- unsurprisingly, the pay-per-use "Mighty Eagle" will return. And yes, you can play the game in browsers other than Chrome (and in other operating systems than Chrome OS).

#google Google isn't above killing a little productivity to prove the power of its web browser. The search engine king has released a special free browser-based version of Rovio's avian-flinging sensation Angry Birds on the Chrome Web Store, just to prove it can be done. More »

YouTube wonderband Pomplamoose has a habit for taking catchy pop hits and turning them into even catchier pop hits. Its latest onus, however, came right out of left field: Check out the duo's delightful rendition of the Angry Birds main theme after the jump!

At this point, we're finding that these furious fowl may just be perpetually pissed off. What do they have to be so angry about? Angry Birds is doing very well on PSN, according to Lazard Capital Markets' Colin Sebastian (via Develop) -- he says it's set a record for downloads on the platform.

Developer Rovio reported over 100 million downloads for the title as of last month, which includes free versions and, of course, the PSN port. As it stands, we haven't received any platform-specific figure, but we do know the game has been charting for months now.

#watchthis Fed up with his shitty flip phone's inability to play a game of Angry Birds, one man turns to the most incendiary of video game cliches, the exploding barrel, to scratch his itch for destruction. This is the game of Angry Barrels. More »

Angry Birds Rio, the Angry Bird sequel for iPhone, iPad and Androud has already been downloaded 10 million times, 10 days since the game came out, according to the website Mobile Entertainment, which confirmed the details with the game's creators at developer Rovio. The Finnish game-makers count the free and paid versions of Rio in their tally. More »

#video A little old, but still funny....here's Star Trek: The Next Generation mashed up with Angry Birds. It's a perfect fit. [via Guyism] More »

"A lot of people in the games industry, they think the 'real' games are on consoles. You're only a 'real' games company if you do a big budget game. But we don't have that inferiority complex," Rovio head Peter Vesterbacka told MCV in a recent interview. Vesterbacka was defending against Nintendo's latest criticisms of the mobile market -- both Nintendo of Japan head Satoru Iwata and Nintendo of America head Reggie Fils-Aime have argued that low-priced smartphone apps are degrading the value of games.

"If I was trying to sell a $49 pieces of plastic to people then yes, I'd be worried too," Vesterbacka added, with a tinge of vitriol, alluding to the standard retail price of a Wii game disc. "But I think it's a good sign that people are concerned -- because from my point of view we're doing something right." Rovio's Angry Birds and its spin-offs are just a $1 each for iPhone and are offered as free, ad-supported apps on the Android Market.

Still, the company has plans for more console development, having already released Angry Birds as a PlayStation Mini, with additional console ports in the pipeline -- even Nintendo's 3DS is getting an Angry Birds port. "Games consoles for us are just like launching on a new smartphone platform," Vesterbacka said nonchalantly. After all, he's probably more concerned with the movie tie-in, the planned US IPO, and, uh, having an Angry Bird etched into the Moon.

Okay, that last one probably isn't happening. Yet.

#video Based on two true stories and a bit of forward thinking, Three Big Pigs combines Angry Birds animation with Disney melodies to walk us through the fate of three Arab League leaders. More »

#video When Rooster Teeth swivels its main guns onto a particular topic, you can count on that sucker being blasted off the map. And here is a comprehensively excellent faux trailer that reframes Angry Birds as an action drama about secret wars fought with advanced technology. Or a slingshot and birds. More »