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Millions of Angry Birds and Green Pigs may very well eat your crops! A post from ReadWriteWeb by Mike Melanson has the whole story . Here is a part: For you 30-something geeks out there,  Angry Birds  may feel like a simple, dumbed down version of DOS-based video game classic  Scorched Earth . For the rest of you, it's simply one of the the most popular games on the planet. If an  Angry Birds movie  and versions for nearly every smartphone on the market isn't enough, it looks like it has the world's largest social network in its sights. You guessed it,  Angry Birds is coming to Facebook .

A post from rovio.com by has the whole story . Here is a part: From the makers of the hit Ice Age series, Rio is a comedy-adventure about taking a walk on the wild side.  Blu is a domesticated Macaw who never learned to fly, living a comfortable life with his owner and best friend Linda in the small town of Moose Lake, Minnesota.  Blu and Linda think he’s the last of his kind, but when they learn about another Macaw who lives in Rio de Janeiro, they head to the faraway and exotic land to find Jewel, Blu’s female counterpart. Not long after they arrive, Blu and Jewel are kidnapped by a group of bungling animal smugglers.  With the help of street smart Jewel, and a group of wise-cracking and smooth-talking city birds, Blu escapes.  Now, with his new friends by his side, Blu will have to find the courage to learn to fly, thwart the kidnappers who are hot on their trail, and return to Linda, the best friend a bird ever had.

Nobody people don't know that Rovio tried with 20 games before having the huge "Angry Birds" success. We wish then the luck to came up with another! A post from The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) by Mike Schramm by has the whole story . Here is a part:   148Apps ' own Jeff Scott just handed me an actual piece of paper here in the Macworld press room, and on it there are all of the Best App Ever winners listed. You can read  the full list online in PDF form , but we'll spoil a few of them for you. Best App Ever for 2010? None other than a little app you may have heard of called  Angry Birds . Sure, it's not a choice too far off the reservation, but you have to admit that in terms of exposure and playtime, there was no real equal. Chillingo and Clickgamer also walked away with the most wins -- Angry Birds showed up on the list 7 times in its various forms, and Cut the Rope also nabbed an award for Best Puzzle Game. Flipboard  is the most award-winning n...

I did look for Angry Birds and Green pigs when I was in Helsinki, but didn't find them. Later I heard that they was located in Espoo, just like Nokia. Deutsche Welle has this reportage. A post from .from Android and Me by Taylor Wimberly has the whole story . Here is a part: Android’s most popular game, Angry Birds, will be receiving a special Valentines Day edition, according to a report from German broadcaster Deutsche Welle. In a YouTube video it was revealed that, ”The designers and game developers at Rovio are currently working on new versions of their game, like this update in pink, due to come on the market on February the 14th – Valentine’s Day.”

I just commented to the blogpost  Why Windows Phone 7 Needs a Gaming Device  on GigaOM: I’m a bit surprised about you diminishing WP7 as a gaming device. As you surely knows, iOS is now a hugely popular gaming platform. And I don’t see any need for a mobile console. In my mind it will only be a little niche, rapidly dying out… Dediu is making a much better case below. A post from asymco.com by Horace Dediu has the original story . Here it is with his kind permission: After reviewing the  payments to suppliers , we can look at the store’s revenue generation rate. With the same assumptions, we have the following chart: We will have to wait for another report to see whether the recent burst of volume from apps is sustained[1], but the trend shows income from apps narrowing the gap to music.  In the last few months apps may have been generating $300 million/month[2]. The blue line above can be interpreted as an arrow aimed at the music industry. We know how that tu...

Jeg spiller bare Angry Birds. Men jeg begynner å skjønne at det kan være gøy med noe annet... En post fra VG har hele historien . Her er en del: KJEMPESATSING: Apple satser stort med sin iPad - også for å kapre det håndholdte spillmarkedet. Foto: APPLE De gode spillopplevelsene står i kø på Apples iPad. Men køen snirkler seg gjennom et terreng det er vanskelig å få oversikt over. Hvilke spillopplevelser er det egentlig verdt å få med seg på iPad? Hvor skal man i det hele tatt starte i berget av tilgjengelige spill på App Store? Flight Control HD. Foto: FIREMINT Flight Control HD Pris: 29,- Sjanger: Strategi Det definitive favorittspillet til iPad er antagelig «Flight Control HD». Her inntar du rollen som flygeleder, som i all hovedsak går ut på å lande alle innkommende fly og helikoptre på korrekte landingsplasser, uten at noen kolliderer. Og det er jo til å få høyt blodtrykk av, for du kommer selvsagt til å krasje. Igjen og igjen og igjen. Men det er også fremrage...

Finnish Sauna I'm on the road, flying Norwegian, to visit Finnish partners - existing and prospectives. In EVS in Düsseldorf I met with Nokia investment arm, and will take this a bit further. Also I will start implementing a deal to get iFacturas translated to Finnish and meet with Antti Hannula. The one thing I'm looking most forward to do is meeting with Horace Dediu. He's one of my three favorite mobile tech writers, and he is the most analythic of us all. I will also try to meet some angry birds and green pigs. I'm not kidding; Rovio, the makers of the game Angry Birds, are located in Finland. Hopefully they also are in the capital! Then hopefully I will see some of our competitors from innovate!100. It's ten years since I visited Helsinki. I really look forward too see our Scandinavian brothers!

Angry Bird is addictive. It's dangerous fun. A post from Psycology today by Michael Chorost, Ph.D. has the whole story . Here is a part: After weeks of struggle, I've finally deleted Angry Birds from my iPhone. It is a fiendishly addictive game. The premise is simple: you "pull" back on a slingshot to fire a scowling bird at a structure with green pigs in it. The better your aim, the more damage you do and the more green pigs you kill. I've played a number of iPhone games, but this one was a masterpiece of addictiveness. Here's why. 1.  It's simple . Absurdly simple. You pull back on a slingshot and fire. Sometimes you tap on the screen to make a bird in flight do something, like drop a bomb. And that's it. There's no learning curve. You're playing in ten seconds.  2.  It's rewarding . When the bird hits the structure, things break. Glass tinkles. Wood splinters. Stone shatters. Pigs explode. It brought out the ten-year old boy in m...

I really don't mind neither PlayStation 3 nor PSP. But I mind Angry Birds. And I'm going to visit their country. Next week I go to Finland looking for some colorful angry birds and some stupid green pigs! A post from TechCrunch by Serkan Toto has the whole story . Here is a part:   We've spent quite a few  posts  on  Angry Birds  in the last months, and now the super-popular smartphone game is  coming  to the Sony PlayStation 3 (and PlayStation Portable) via this week's PlayStation store update. That's right, you'll get to play Angry Birds on an HD console or a portable gaming system (which doesn't have a touchscreen). Read the rest on  CrunchGear .

Grimm's Rapunzel - 3D Interactive Pop-up Book I, and my old friends, are astonished by the fact that I play games at all. It’s a quite new interest for me. The whole started with FarmVille , whitch was way fun to play with my neviews, until everything became just too much. All my crops rottened, it wasn’t any fun at all, and after a lot of struggling with my conscience I finally quite. And I am quite determined to not touch something from Zynga again. My 2010 favourite game has been Angry Birds . I didn’t really know that I had so much antipathy and violent feelings towards Green Pigs. (Sorry pigs, don’t take it personally!) Rovio, the Finnish producers of the Birds, also are quite profident in both how to drive interest and earn money. I wish they continue with their luck in 2011. The game that Embla, my smallest niece, and I have passed most time with is: Alice in Wonderland is the one game Embla always want to work with. Each time she visit me she pass a hurdle. D...

Update: I've still stuck with this still photo until I'm back in Spain to shoot a new Unicorn Disco video sequence with my co-workers. Just hours ago Unicorn Disco added video to their wildly popular and funny app. We are going to have lot of fun in my company with this app! Seeing my collegues Toni and Reva dancing to my own Beatles and Bach recording in iTunes made me laugh , too loud for being in an airplane and many times. Changing costumes and music and moving Toni and Reva around was simply irresistible fun. Mark Sigal is into this game . I know him as an excellent and serious tech writer , from whom I've learned a lot, he must be quite multitalented... Can it be better? Here is a couple of suggestions: Let's be able to move a dancer to the foreground.  Let's create a video from it or send it to other users.  The UI can give us more hints an actions.  But well done! Now home to my grandchildren to some real Unicorn Disco fun!

In app purchase, that's the feature you need to get the mighty eagle to help the angry birds. A post from .com by has the whole story . Here is a part: Just in time for the holidays, the Mighty Eagle has just flown into the App Store, and is now available for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad in the latest Angry Birds update! With the latest Angry Birds update, we bring you a new, scorching hot desert theme titled Ham 'Em High, with 15 new action-packed levels, and a new Golden Egg. Moreover, you can now purchase the Mighty Eagle to aid you in the battle against the persistent pigs! Mighty Eagle is an in-app purchase and costs $0.99/£0.59/€0.79 to buy. This is a one-time purchase. You can use Mighty Eagle to skip a level to unlock the next one and advance in the game. However, there is a limitation: you can only skip one level per hour! In levels that you have already passed with the regular birds, you can use the Mighty Eagle without limitations. Why would you wan...

Electronic art gives you their games for a buck. Even if they had cost as much as $13. Run and buy! A post from .com by has the whole story . Here is a part: As we previously reported , EA dropped prices on most of its iOS apps this week, and that sale sent shockwaves through the App Store's holiday season. We've seen tons of awesome new apps hit the store in the past few weeks, but if you look at the Top Paid apps right now, most of them are older EA favorites. EA currently has  six of the top 10 apps on the store  (with  Battlefield: Bad Company 2  leading the way -- a big name title released for just 99 cents), and it's peppered throughout the rest of the top 50 as well. The biggest recent release on the list is probably  Infinity Blade , which, despite extremely solid reviews and lots of press about its release, is currently down at number 16.

When I show Angry Birds to friends, they sometimes responds a bit curious. Like thinking that I have some problems with green pigs, and really are showing some agression under all my politeness. I don't know, but a psycholog may be something, at least for the birds... A post from mashable.com by has the whole story .

After dealing with the 39 different Android screens, it shouldn't surprise anyone. Using a green pig as logo for their payment system either. The birds are really fed up on pigs. A post from from GigaOM by Ryan Kim has the whole story . Here is a part: Rovio is taking its  success with mobile game Angry Birds  — 50 million downloads and counting — and using it to launch a new in-app purchase, carrier-billing payment system. The mobile developer said it’s launching Bad Piggy Bank early next year with Finnish carrier Elisa, allowing users to upgrade to an ad-free version of Angry Birds or buy Angry Birds’ first virtual good  – the Mighty Eagle character — with one tap. During a press event, Rovio CEO Peter Vesterbacka said the studio will offer its system to other developers and will take a share of the revenue. He said he hopes it will provide consumers, especially in areas with less credit card penetration, an option for buying in-app content without having to...

Credit MTV3.fi I'm a big fan of the Danish Angry Birds. Somehow it trigs me a lot. So seing an Angry Bird with a St. Claus costume trigs my writing obsession.  A post from from The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) by Dave Caolo has the whole story . Here is a part: You had to see this coming. Rovio is reportedly prepping a Christmas-themed update to the ridiculously popular Angry Birds game for iOS. Finnish TV site MTV3  has the scoop  ( English translation ) with a screenshot showing snow-bound pigs about to receive the wrath of flying snowballs. 

Take a look at the graphic. It tells that social gaming is affecting almost everyone on internet. The old way of subscription gaming is only a 20th. in size. This trend is favorizing iOS more than any other. A post at mashable.com has the whole story. Here is a part: Since taking off in 2009, the social gaming phenomenon has drawn hundreds of millions of players, but it has also found more than its fair share of critics. Many claim that social games are too shallow and simplistic to attract a sustainable audience, while others assert that a free-to-play business model leaves too much money on the table to support the development of social games that compare favorably to traditional games. Some believe that the biggest threat to social games is the force that gave life to them in the first place -- the fate of the industry seems inextricably linked to the ebb and flow of the  Facebook  platform, and Facebook’s wavering commitment to developers does little to inspire confi...

Since it late Friday, more gaming stuff seems appropriate: The number of games in iOS is three times all the other gaming platforms. Do you get that? 3 times! A post by the excellent blogger Horace Deliu from Asymco has the story . Here is the chart:

[ Zero-Lives  via  BuzzFeed  via  LaughingSquid ] In addition to be addicted, he would made some nice drawings. A post by Kat Hannaford from Gizmodo has the whole story .