Angry Birds Star Wars has been topping app store charts around the world, but now the game's developer Rovio has its sights set on Hollywood in another way: an official Angry Birds movie to be filmed in 3D.

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The Angry Birds Trilogy video game is now available at retailers today in North America for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Nintendo 3DS. The game will be available across Europe on September 28th.

Built from the ground up with HD graphics, the Angry Birds Trilogy is a compilation of the three award-winning titles: Angry Birds, Angry Birds Seasons and Angry Birds Rio. This grand combination has all-new animated cut scenes and interactive backgrounds – all tailor-made in 1080p HD graphics with surround sound support. The new collection of bird biographies, concept art and character sketches, and extra bonus content reinforces the striking look and feel of the Angry Birds franchise and gives gamers additional challenges as they climb the high-score leaderboards.

Kinect for Xbox 360 and PlayStation Move support will also offer an all-new experience as gamers launch these iconic characters with simple hand-waving gestures. Additionally, Angry Birds comes to life in Stereoscopic 3D and allows for on-the-go challenges in StreetPass mode on the Nintendo 3DS system.

Rovio, the creators of Angry Birds, and multi-platinum selling and Grammy Award-winning band Green Day have teamed up to launch a new musical episode for Angry Birds Friends on Facebook.

The episode features 10 never-before-seen themed levels, as well as all new bad pig characters inspired by band members Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt, and Tre Cool. Fans can also access specially created content, including Green Day’s latest single “Oh Love”, and an exclusive song “Troublemaker.” Updates for the Green Day episode, coming later this fall, will provide even more exclusive content and levels.

“We’re all fans of Angry Birds,” said Armstrong. “It’s such an addictive game that when we first started playing it we couldn’t stop. Go Team Green!”

“We are beyond excited,” commented Rovio CMO and Mighty Eagle Peter Vesterbacka. “Two amazing brands working together on a one-of-a-kind collaboration — we can’t wait for our fans to explore this new Green Day world.”

Rovio Entertainment’s Angry Birds on Facebook has today flown the coop and left its beta status to become 'Angry Birds Friends', with a new tournament mode and new weekly levels.

“We can’t wait for our fans to play Angry Birds Friends,” said Petri Järvilehto, EVP of Games at Rovio Entertainment. “These great features add a compelling new dimension to the gameplay that fans already know and love, and with new levels every week, there’s always a new challenge to try!”

With the weekly tournaments in Angry Birds Friends, fans can prove they’re the best Angry Birds player around. Every week, fans have from Monday to Sunday to compete with friends on four different levels. The pig-popper with the best overall score will earn a gold trophy, with silver and bronze for second and third place. Angry Birds Friends has four new levels every week, available exclusively in tournament mode, so there are always new levels to check out.

In addition to the daily rewards fans already get, they can now earn power-ups through tournament mode. Earn three power-ups bundles for a gold trophy, two for silver, and one for bronze. Fans also get a power-up for each tournament level they play, and one for participating in the tournament.

Despite reports to the contrary, Shigeru Miyamoto is only human. Even the man at the top of Nintendo's creative pyramid isn't immune to the charms of iOS hit Angry Birds, admitting on a recent press tour his fondness for the game — with a catch.

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Rovio Entertainment has officially launched Angry Birds on Facebook. The new game will feature the Angry Birds gameplay that fans already know and love, but with added social and competitive elements, brand new power-ups, and Facebook-exclusive levels.

With the brand-new social features fans can compete with their friends, brag about their scores, and earn coveted gold, silver, and bronze crowns for the top three scores in any level. Fans can also give their Facebook friends “mystery gifts” of power-ups.

In addition to the Mighty Eagle, Angry Birds on Facebook has new power-ups to help pop even the peskiest piggy. Fans can earn power-ups by playing the game, receiving them as a “mystery gift” from a friend, or purchasing them. To begin, there are four power-ups available and Rovio is giving out 14 free power-ups to anyone who plays Angry Birds on Facebook between now and February 16th.

While we've been blissfully ignoring Kiss frontman Gene Simmons since his last appearance on The Simpsons, he's been busy transitioning his band from 1970s stadium rockers into a crosspromotional love gun. Take, for example, Kiss Hello Kitty (which is apparently a thing?). We're not quite sure what to make of it either.

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Rovio will be celebrating the 2nd birthday of Angry Birds, all over the world on December 11th. Fans everywhere can enjoy a new 'Happy Birdday' update for Angry Birds, which features 15 delectable new birthday cake levels, spiffy new menus and graphics, and special achievements. As a birthday gift to fans, all episodes are now also unlocked.

Fans in the US can celebrate Angry Birds’ second birthday by heading over to their local Barnes & Noble, which will have special events and giveaways from 11 AM to 3 PM on December 11th. Angry Birds aficionados can join a scavenger hunt to find the Mighty Eagle or enter a raffle to win special Angry Birds prizes. Along with the Birds & Noble Scavenger Hunt, select stores may offer additional activities such as coloring or high score contests, design your own Angry Birds character, Angry Birds Parades and guessing games. Fans can also check out the wide variety of Angry Birds merchandise available at “Birds & Noble”, including mugs, backpacks, and even a brand new sugar cookie available only at Barnes & Noble.

Toys ‘R’ Us is also getting into the "birdday” spirit. Fans who go to the store on December 11th can get 25% off Angry Birds plush toys plus a code that unlocks an Angry Birds Chrome Seasons’ Greedings bonus level.

For Angry Birds fans in Japan, Rovio CMO and Mighty Eagle Peter Vesterbacka will be giving a special presentation at the Apple store in Ginza. Vesterbacka will share stories about how Rovio took Angry Birds from just another mobile game to a worldwide entertainment success story and how the App Store was involved. In Harajuku, Tokyo, an Angry Birds event will give fans a chance to play games and win prizes.

The Forbidden Planet London megastore in the UK will also be celebrating Angry Birds’ second birthday.

Although Angry Birds is only two years young, it has already been downloaded 500 million times, making it the most popular app ever as well as one of the fastest growing international brands.

Focus Multimedia announced today that it will be bringing Angry Birds to the PC across the UK this November. The agreement between Rovio Entertainment and Focus Multimedia will see the original Angry Birds launched this month. Angry Birds Rio will also be available on PC in time for Christmas.

In the original Angry Birds game, players take control of a bunch of cute but angry birds who face off against hungry pigs who have stolen their eggs. The goal of the game is to shoot the birds from a slingshot and smash the pigs, using the special abilities of each bird to solve physics-based puzzles that grow more challenging as the game progresses. Each of over 300 levels require logic, skill and brute force to crush the enemy.

On sale Friday 25th November 2011 with an SRP of £10.20, Angry Birds will be available from www.focusmm.co.uk, leading supermarkets, high street game stores and online shops.

In January, Chillingo put out a PlayStation Minis version of the megahit Angry Birds. Then, in July, it was replaced by one published by original developer Rovio, with better load times and other improvements; however, since it was sort of a new game by a new publisher, players couldn't just update to the new one without paying for a second copy of Angry Birds.

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Rovio have announced that it will be expanding Angry Birds onto social media platforms, starting with the recent launch on Google's social network, Google+.

“Angry Birds for Google+ Games is a great start, but it’s just our first step in social gaming,” said Mikael Hed, CEO of Rovio. “As our fans know, we constantly look for ways to update and innovate our products. We want to delight our users by going way beyond what they were expecting. Social gaming is going to be massive, and we’re very excited about what we have coming up next.”

Angry Birds on Google+ will gradually become available to everyone, but for people currently outside the limited trial, the game can also be found for mobile and web. Angry Birds is available in high definition in the Chrome Web Store: Angry Birds Chrome.

Rovio has revealed that the increasingly popular Angry Birds games have been downloaded a total of 200 million times on various platforms.


The Angry Birds gaming franchise, which consists of the games Angry Birds, Angry Birds Seasons and Angry Birds Rio, has seen a steady number of downloads in the first half of the year so far. All games are available on major smartphone platforms, with PC and Mac versions also in the market.


"We have seen more growth and engagement with Angry Birds games and merchandise across all markets," said Mikael Hed, CEO of Rovio. "The growing numbers of fans give us more incentive to keep creating more fresh, fun and engaging Angry Birds experiences and making them available to everyone."


Last week, Angry Birds was launched in the web for the first time in the Chrome Web Store. The game can be played in a web browser, and offline play is available when installed from the Chrome Web Store. The web version attracted 6 million individual fans of the game in less than a week.


The demand for Angry Birds merchandising has been growing, with over 3 million units sold globally and shipped to more than 100 countries. Rovio has appointed licensing agents worldwide, with Striker Entertainment (US), Wild Pumpkin (Australia), PPW (China, Hong Kong and Taiwan), Pacific Licensing (Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand), LID Licensing (Brazil) and YPL (Israel) representing the Angry Birds property in their respective regions.


Currently, Rovio is busy creating a social game around Angry Birds, expanding to new areas of entertainment business, and preparing for more growth throughout 2011.