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#angrybirds You know what the most recognizable characters in mobile gaming are lacking? Character. Debuting March 16 and 17, Rovio's Angry Birds Toons series will define Red, Black, Blue, White, Yellow and the pigs by their story arcs instead of their parabolic arcs. Yeah, I've been waiting to use that forever. More »

#china A pair of Angry Birds are, wait for it, angry. Garfield and Donald Duck are rightly pissed, too. And don't get the Chinese God of Wealth started. He's livid. More »

#angrybirds Oh, Grand Theft Auto mods, you never cease to amaze me. Here's footage by taltigolt of someone playing as Red Bird...in Grand Theft Auto IV. Naturally, knocking stuff over happens. And, eventually, guns. More »

Over 30 million people downloaded a version of Angry Birds from December 22nd through the 29th. Rovio reports eight million Angry Birds downloads went through on Christmas day alone.

Rovio's most recent game, Angry Birds Star Wars, has graced the top spot on the App store since its launch in November, and was ported to Facebook just before the new year arrived. In our corner of the industry, the bird's trajectory may be more important than the ball's.

#angrybirds Of the estimated 17.4 million new Android and Apple phones and tablets unwrapped on Christmas day, nearly half snagged a copy of Rovio's bird-powered physics puzzler. It sure pays to be nearly synonymous with mobile gaming, doesn't it? More »

#angrybirds So, that viral video of the eagle snatching a baby off the ground is a confirmed fake. But this? Totally for reals. Trust me. More »

Angry Birds Star Wars is on Facebook, bringing everyone one step closer to the dark side. The Facebook version allows players to compare scores and compete against their friends, and will have five new levels each week to keep the flinging fresh.

Angry Birds Star Wars has three power-ups just for the Facebook version, the Blaster Droid, Saber Sling and Thermal Detonator. It also includes the Clone Bird ability, which duplicates a bird of the player's choice. Keep in mind that Angry Birds Star Wars on mobile is fun, satisfying and clever, for the most part, and that surprised us just as much as it did you.

#angrybirds The magnificent mobile mixture of Angry Birds and Star Wars that swept the mobile game charts gets social today, as Rovio launches the Angry Birds Star Wars Facebook game. More »

#angrybirds After what feels like years of rumblings about a motion picture based on the world's most popular mobile game franchise, Finnish developer Rovio makes it official: Angry Birds the movie, in theaters summer 2016. More »

A free update for Angry Birds Star Wars adds the iconic planet Hoth to the game. Pigs - even giant mechanical ones - aren't exactly suited for the slippery ice tundras of the frozen planet. If only the Empire were capable of such slapstick, maybe the Rebels wouldn't hate them so much!

#angrybirds It's not often you get to see a game guide, of sorts, written by an artist. But then, it's not often a game is as simple as Angry Birds. More »

#playthis Everything is better with Star Wars. Anyone that's ever cut a graceful arc through the air with a vaguely saber-shaped object while making whooshing noises knows this. Dogs know this. Pizza lovers know this. Even Disney know this. More »

#angrybirds Angry Birds has Golden Eggs. Angry Birds Star Wars, however, has Golden Droids. YouTube user AngryBirdsNest has gone through and provided helpful walkthroughs so you can snag the Golden Droids. More »

#angrybirds Rovio continues to tease the November 8 release of Angry Birds Star Wars on mobile, PC and Mac, this time with a full gameplay trailer that ends with the ship that made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs. More »

The crossover between an incredibly successful film franchise and near-ubiquitous mobile game continues apace, with the latest character reveal of Bad Piggy and Angry Birds versions of Darth Vader and Obi-Wan Kenobi. A slice of Angry Birds Star Wars gameplay is shown, but other than pigs in Stormtrooper attire nothing looks terribly like Star Wars as far as gameplay mechanics. Guess we’ll find out when the game comes out next week.

#angrybirds Now kiss! Rovio doesn't deliver sibling smooching in this first gameplay teaser for Angry Birds Star Wars, but they do give us Lightsaber swinging and pink Force-pulling, so I'll forgive them. More »

McDonalds is partnering with Rovio for a bit of corporate synergy - in China. Playing Angry Birds inside Chinese McDonalds restaurants will unlock special in-game power-ups and "hidden game modes" available exclusively in the fast-food establishment. In addition, patrons will have the opportunity to vote on the location to be home to a real Angry Birds slingshot across the Golden Arches sign.

If you've read this far, you definitely want to hear the Angry Birds sing the McDonalds "I'm Lovin' It" song. You'll find that in the video above.

Rovio has revealed and released an interactive Bad Piggies cookbook app, now available on iPad at 99 cents for a limited time. Titled Bad Piggies Best Egg Recipes, the app's regular price is $4.99. That's a significant leap from the promotional offer. However, compared to the $14.99 RRP of last year's physical version from which the app is adapted, it's a significant drop.

So, just in case you needed Angry Birds to invade some other part of your formerly Angry Birds-less culture, now there's an interactive cookbook. Although outside of sharing photos of your dishes on social media and setting an in-app egg timer, the interactivity is limited to pressing on the occasional illustration and seeing a brief animation. That's the same shtick early 90s CD-ROM games used, but at least it's better than just making a book digital.

The app contains 41 egg recipes, graded in difficulty, with simple step-by-step instructions. You may scoff, but when you consider how many people have downloaded the Angry Birds and Bad Piggies games, the potential success of this app really is no yolk. [You're in for a real beating over this line. - Ed.]

#angrybirds What did you think the Bad Piggies were doing with the eggs they stole from the Angry Birds? Raising the them as their own? Oh no, they've been making omelets, waffles and egg sushi, and now you can too with Bad Piggies Best Egg Recipes on the iPad. More »

#angrybirds Angry Birds: Star Wars doesn't look half bad! I really like the art style, and if this game adds as many neat new features as Angry Birds Space did a few months ago, it should be really interesting. More »

Angry Birds Star Wars is kicking into hyperdrive on November 8, Rovio today revealed. According to USA Today, the game is coming to iOS, Android, and Windows 8 PCs. Along with the above video, Lucasfilm and Rovio released the below promotional image.

According to Lucasfilm licensing and consumer products marketing VP Paul Southern, the above characters aren't just "Angry Birds dressed up as Star Wars characters," but they do have "personalities which are kind of similar" to their counterparts. We can already imagine the names: Luke Skysquawker, Chewpecker... actually, that's all we've got.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the game uses the physics of Angry Birds Space, but is set on recognizable locations from the Star Wars series. We may well learn more details after the Times Square reveal later today.

#supermario [videothtumb ] When you combine the incendiary oomph of the Mushroom Kingdom's fireflowers and the myriad talents of the various Angry Birds, green pig flesh explodes all over the screen. More »

#angrybirds Yep. Angry Birds + Star Wars. Just announced this morning by the Angry Birds folks at Rovio. More »

#angrybirds Teased on Friday, we knew that some kind of a crossover between Rovio's Angry Birds franchise and Star Wars was coming. It's a natural pairing, given the enormous mainstream reach of those names and their owners' willingness to license it in the toy space. More »

#angrybirds It appears that some kind of Star Wars and Angry Birds crossover is in the works. Rovio launched a new Angry Birds tumblr account today, with this sneaky *.gif. More »

#angrybirds Listen, CNBC, I understand that there's a lot of complex data flying all over the global economics maps at any given time. And anything that a TV producer can do to make all that parsing and projection seem even a little bit fun or plugged into pop culture must feel almost like an obligation. But, man, this attempt just hurts to watch. More »

#playthis Pigs might fly in the new game from the creators of Angry Birds. But only if you build them a helicopter, a plane or whatever you call a crate that's tied to a balloon and propelled by a house fan. More »

This is Portabliss, a column about downloadable games that can be played on the go.
Angry Birds is iOS gaming's juggernaut; even now, it regularly tops the App Store charts in both money earned and time played. Rovio, the Finnish company who created Angry Birds, put together dozens of mobile games before its first iOS release, and has seemingly hesitated to release anything else after it. The studio doesn't want to cannibalize its own success, so all we've seen from Rovio since Angry Birds' 2009 iOS release is a series of rebrands (including Angry Birds Rio and Angry Birds Space), and one licensed remake of a sandbox contraption game called Amazing Alex.

Bad Piggies, then, is the first original title we've seen from Rovio in years, but even it doesn't go too far off the multibillion-dollar reservation. It's a game set in the Angry Birds universe, that follows the green pigs and their goal of grabbing eggs rather than the frustrated fowl trying to demolish them. But instead of unleashing furious destruction by catapult, Bad Piggies asks the player to create modular vehicles that will cart the pigs across a level, reaching a map piece goal at the end.

#angrybirds Earlier this year, a coder "ported" mobile game Angry Birds to the Sega Genesis / Mega Drive, running the game via emulation on a PC. Which was cool, but nowhere near as cool as this eBay Auction for a Genesis cartridge supposedly containing the game. More »

Bad Piggies retains the characteristic Angry Birds appeal, but has players build wacky rides to roll and fly across obstacle courses collecting stars. Despite its adorable design, we'll continue thinking of Bad Piggies as a prequel to thechineseroom's Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs. Bad, bad piggies.