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Jan 11
At the rate some gamers finish off their Angry Birds levels, developer Rovio must have a pretty trying time pushing out new levels on a constant basis. Well the good news is that if you’re already completed the latest Angry Birds Space update on your iOS or Android device, you might be interested to learn that a new update is already available. Called “Splash”, this update will introduce water levels to the space levels, giving gamers some new and interesting physics that they will have to work around with. As the image above suggests, there will be new obstacles to overcome although there will be power-ups which gamers can use to help get them through these new levels.
These power-ups include Flock of Birds, Space Egg and Puffer Fish. There will also be a new underwater boss, and for gamers who managed to obtain a three-star rating on every level they complete, it seems that you guys will be rewarded with three bonus levels to play through. The update is currently available for download via the iTunes App Store and the Google Play store, so head on over for the download!
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Nov 07
While Windows Phone might not necessarily be the platform developers pick as their first choice to develop apps for, there are still plenty of apps for users to choose from. Now if you were thinking of making the jump to Windows Phone but were worried about losing your Angry Birds fix, fret not as Rovio has announced that Angry Birds Space will now be available for Windows Phone 8 devices. Earlier this year Rovio stated that they won’t be bringing the game onto Windows Phone due to the fact that they’d have to completely rewrite the app, but thankfully they changed their minds a few months down the road. In any case the game is expected to be the same as its iOS and Android counterpart, so if you have a Windows Phone 8 device and would like to get your hands on the game, it is available for $0.99 via the Windows Phone Store.
By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Angry Birds Space updated with 10 new levels, Rovio launches free version of Angry Birds Space for iOS devices,
Nov 02
While we’re sure that some of you guys are eagerly waiting to see what Angry Birds Star Wars will be bringing to the table, perhaps you might want to satisfy your cravings by playing a little Angry Birds Space. If you’ve already completed the game and managed to nab the maximum number of stars or points for each level, you might be interested to learn that the game has been recently updated. The latest update for the game will introduce the Red Planet which will include 10 new levels, with the ultimate goal of the mission being that you will need to rescue the Mars Curiosity Rover which has been commandeered by none other than the pigs. There will be secret levels that gamers can unlock and if gamers manage to achieve a 100% rating on all the planets in the game, five space eagle bonus levels will become playable. The update will be available for both iOS and Android devices, so head on over to the iTunes App Store or the Google Play store for the update.
By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Rovio launches free version of Angry Birds Space for iOS devices, Angry Birds Space updated with Utopia episode,
Oct 11
Rovio and CERN teaming up on education: hopefully the Angry Birds help us this time
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The last time CERN and an angry bird met, it didn’t end so well: the Large Hadron Collider overheated after a feathered creature reportedly dropped its breakfast on outdoor machinery. Things should go much more smoothly this time around, with CERN and Rovio partnering on an educational initiative that will be unveiled in full at the Frankfurt Book Fair on October 12th. Although the two are shy on just what’s entailed beyond the presence of some Angry Birds material at the event, the union will mark the start of Rovio’s learning brand and likely represent more in the long run than another Angry Birds Space tie-in. We’re mostly wondering if subatomic physics research will explain why we still can’t three-star some levels in a physics-based game.
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Rovio and CERN teaming up on education: hopefully the Angry Birds help us this time originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 11 Oct 2012 08:27:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Oct 08
Feel the Force: Angry Birds Star Wars coming November 8th to iOS, Android, WP, Kindle Fire and computers
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Rovio teased a certain film-inspired Angry Birds picture a long, long last week, and as expected, it’s another new game — Angry Birds Star Wars. Our furious feathered friends are assuming the likenesses of characters from the epic saga, with the trusty Red Bird taking on Luke Skywalker’s role. It wouldn’t be the Rebel Alliance without a dark side to fight, which is where the Pigs fit into the storyline; even the music and levels for gravity-based play will hark back to the film franchise. In addition to the software, details of related merchandise have also been uncovered, including table games, toys and costumes. The game is out on November 8th for iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Kindle Fire and computers, and if it follows the original storyline, we wonder how Red Bird’s going to feel about his porcine family history.
Feel the Force: Angry Birds Star Wars coming November 8th to iOS, Android, WP, Kindle Fire and computers originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 08 Oct 2012 06:46:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Oct 05
Rovio hints at Angry Birds tie-in with Star Wars on October 8th, Red Bird Five standing by
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The green pigs have had their moment in the sun: it’s time for the Angry Birds to come back. Rovio Mobile has posted a teaser of a collaboration between its frustrated avians and Star Wars that will get a grand reveal on October 8th at Toys R Us’ Times Square location in New York City. No clear giveaways exist as to what’s coming, although Rovio is promising animations, comics and other material in the weeks ahead — we imagine it means more than a toy line, as unique as that can be. But does it mean an Angry Birds Space add-on that goes well beyond the Martian landscape, an entirely new game or something else altogether? We’ve asked the company for more details and will let you know if we’re given more information. In the meantime, get ready for what’s likely to be a geek culture explosion.
[Thanks, Jaakko]
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Rovio hints at Angry Birds tie-in with Star Wars on October 8th, Red Bird Five standing by originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 05 Oct 2012 11:04:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Sep 11
Gartner: Free apps dominate market, iOS App Store accounts for 25 percent of all content
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If you’d just put down Angry Birds Space for a moment, maybe we could tell you that mobile apps are kind of a big deal. How big of a deal? How’s about 45.6 billion downloads just this year — that’s a serious amount of birds lost in space! All of those downloads weren’t just Angry Birds venturing into the final frontier, of course. Gartner, Inc’s latest mobile report doesn’t actually break down how much of that enormous number pertains to Rovio’s hit franchise, but it does note that “free apps will account for nearly 90 percent of total mobile app store downloads in 2012.” That means of the nearly 46 billion apps downloaded this year, approximately 40.6 billion were free. Additionally, an entire quarter of the apps downloaded in 2012 were via Apple’s iOS app store — but that isn’t what’s driving app growth, necessarily. “The number of apps available is driven by an increasing number of stores in the market today,” Gartner research director Brian Blau notes. “These stores will see their combined share of total downloads increase, but demand for apps overall will still be dominated by Apple, Google, and Microsoft.”
And the growth doesn’t stop there. Blau predicts that 93 percent of all apps downloads will be of the free variety by 2016 — also, we’ll be downloading over 300 billion apps worldwide by the same year. Like we said, kind of a big deal.
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Gartner: Free apps dominate market, iOS App Store accounts for 25 percent of all content originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 11 Sep 2012 13:17:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Aug 23
Rovio takes Angry Birds Space for a spin with NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover, teases Red Planet for fall (video)
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It was almost as inevitable as gravity, really. Rovio has teamed up with NASA to offer a special, Curiosity-themed episode inside Angry Birds Space. The trek has the avians scouring 20 levels of the Martian landscape with a few bonuses thrown in for good measure. Just like your favorite childhood breakfast cereal, there’s even a token healthy ingredient — in this case, a chance for gamers to learn about Curiosity’s exploration whenever they’re not busy smashing pigs. Android and iOS users can dip into the new chapter right after they update, but that’s not even the full extent of Rovio’s plans. If the environs of Gale Crater are too limiting, you’ll be glad to hear that the game developer is teasing a full-scale Red Planet variant for the fall.
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Rovio takes Angry Birds Space for a spin with NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover, teases Red Planet for fall (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 23 Aug 2012 20:02:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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