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Angry Birds, Angry Birds Rio Updates Bring New Levels
Any Angry Birds fan worth his salt is laser-focused on the upcoming release of Angry Birds Space later this week, but work on that new title hasn’t stopped Rovio from continuing to support previous installations. Today the company announced updates for both the original Angry Birds, as well as last year’s Angry Birds Rio, bringing some new levels to both of the the apps.
Angry Birds gets itself a pack of 15 new beach-themed levels. Gra
nted, we just hit the official start of spring, but in the Northeastern US at least, it sure has been feeling a lot like summer lately. If it’s still a bit chilly where you call home, maybe these levels will at least have you thinking sunny, warm thoughts until the weather comes around.
Angry Birds Rio doesn’t get a full new episode with today’s update, but instead gains a dozen new bonus levels. This should prove a fun new challenge for experienced players, as you’ll have to demonstrate some serious Angry Birds mastery to retrieve all the fruit you’ll need to unlock these levels, let alone conquer them. Rovio also points out that this is far from the end of the road for Rio updates, and it will have more for us in the future.
So far, we’ve seen the new Angry Birds and Angry Birds Rio pop-up in Apple’s App Store, but it doesn’t look like the updates have made it to Google Play just yet.
Focus, which has already released the Angry Birds and Angry Birds Rio
PC games, will be looking for yet more success from this third title,
which covers - as you might guess from the name - a multitude of seasons
and holidays across its many levels.
Angry Birds Seasons PC is available from www.focusmm.co.uk, with an SRP of £10.20.
Angry Birds Seasons has landed at UK retail - it's now available from software publisher Focus Multimedia.Angry Birds Seasons PC is available from www.focusmm.co.uk, with an SRP of £10.20.
Angry Birds, which comes from developer Rovio, is now a worldwide phenomenon, with huge sales of both apps and accessories. The games' arrival on PC marks an opportunity for IT retailers to benefit financially too.
Peter Vesterbacka talks growth, entertainment brands, and why it's okay for Rovio to make mistakes
Having flown past 700m downloads, Angry Birds is now a mainstream entertainment brand
They may be familiar, but the stats around Angry Birds
remain startling, starting with the franchise's 700m downloads across
all platforms – a figure likely to top 1bn sometime in 2012.
The original iPhone game is the biggest-selling paid app ever on both the UK and US App Stores according to Apple, with follow-ups Angry Birds Seasons and Angry Birds Rio also in the top 10 in both countries.
More than 1m people have reviewed the Android version of Angry Birds on Google's Android Market, and Rovio has sold 25m plush toys so far.
On the back of that, there are now more than 20,000 licensed Angry Birds products on sale, from board games and books through to t-shirts, shoes and sweets. A theme park is on the way in Finland, while Angry Birds shops will soon launch in China.
Peter Vesterbacka's job is to fly around the world telling journalists and conference audiences these numbers, while also working on the company's marketing strategy. Does Rovio's 'Mighty Eagle' not worry that Angry Birds might be getting a little… over-exposed?
"We say no all the time: every day and every hour," says Vesterbacka.
The original iPhone game is the biggest-selling paid app ever on both the UK and US App Stores according to Apple, with follow-ups Angry Birds Seasons and Angry Birds Rio also in the top 10 in both countries.
More than 1m people have reviewed the Android version of Angry Birds on Google's Android Market, and Rovio has sold 25m plush toys so far.
On the back of that, there are now more than 20,000 licensed Angry Birds products on sale, from board games and books through to t-shirts, shoes and sweets. A theme park is on the way in Finland, while Angry Birds shops will soon launch in China.
Peter Vesterbacka's job is to fly around the world telling journalists and conference audiences these numbers, while also working on the company's marketing strategy. Does Rovio's 'Mighty Eagle' not worry that Angry Birds might be getting a little… over-exposed?
"We say no all the time: every day and every hour," says Vesterbacka.