Angry Birds News

Rovio Entertainment announced today that comedy writer Jon Vitti, a veteran of "The Simpsons," "King of the Hill," "The Office" and "The Larry Sanders Show," will write the screenplay for Angry Birds - the upcoming animated 3D film based on Rovio's bestselling app.

ANGRY BIRDS, the popular time-waster of a video game designed by Rovio Entertainment, has been downloaded a whopping 1.7 billion times.

Rovio's latest update to its Angry Birds Seasons game involves a new element called Magic Portals, letting players teleport birds, pigs and other characters from one location in the game to another.

Last month Rovio released " Angry Birds Friends". Unsurprisingly, the bird-flinging favorite of millions, " Angry Birds ", made its way to Facebook .

I stopped playing Angry Birds years ago, once I had beaten most of the levels and realized I was turning my brain to mush by playing iPhone games on the subway.

Angry Birds studio Rovio today launched a new mobile game publishing initiative, through which it plans to forge its first path into the world of third-party titles.

Now even that achievement has been put in the shade by Japanese developer GungHo, whose Puzzle & Dragons mobile game made $113m in the month of April alone.

So, in the time after my original First Impressions post on the Gemini Devices JoyTab Duo 7 3G, a few things have happened.

Tennessee House of Representatives Speaker Beth Harwell addresses Tennessee Tech graduates Saturday at the university's spring commencement ceremony.

This week I wrote about apps that can take the place, at least in part, of a personal trainer.

For gamers, the name "Sid Meier" is synonymous with sweeping epic strategy games like "Civilization." It came as a shock, then, when we heard Meier's latest game was going to iOS.

Happy ending: The custom-made Angry Birds level designed by Rovio that enabled Ben Levi to propose to his longtime girlfriend, Melissa Swift, despite her resentment toward his addiction to the game.

Angry Birds Friends is the least interesting product that Rovio has ever put out.

Since the dawn of the App Store, and by extension, gaming on smartphones and tablets, one iconic brand has remained absent from the revolution: Nintendo.

We're sure there are many Angry Birds gamers out there who might be pretty pleased with themselves for getting the max amount of stars they can for each level, but when they get a new phone, it seems that their achievements aren't carried over, meaning that they will need to play all over again.

As we wrote about last week , the top list of free apps was pretty much what you might expect: Facebook In the ranking of top 25 most-downloaded paid apps , games dominate the list, led by "Angry Birds." Three other versions of the popular game from Rovio are in the top 25.

Finnish video game developer Rovio Entertainment has re-launched its flagship "Angry Birds" game in the Windows Phone app store for free.

Like Facebook and Angry Birds? How about putting the two together, which is exactly what Rovio did with its new Angry Birds Friends for iOS.

According to a May 2 report in " All App News ", the "Angry Birds" developer, Rovio, has today released a new social version of its famous hit called, " Angry Birds Friends ". This new version morphs the iconic game with Facebook-like game features.

Every time I see a squirrel squashed, a house painted yellow, or a discarded condom on a sidewalk, I wonder what sort of human might have perpetrated such a deed.