Angry Birds
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| Angry Birds | |
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Angry Birds app icon on iOS and Android
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| Creator | Rovio Entertainment |
| Original work | Video game series |
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| Films and television | |
| Animated series | Angry Birds Toons[1] |
| Games | |
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| Miscellaneous | |
| Spin-offs | Bad Piggies |
Angry Birds is a video game franchise created by Finnish computer game
developer Rovio Entertainment. Inspired primarily
by a sketch of stylized wingless birds, the first game was first
released for Apple's iOS in December
2009.[2]
Over 12 million copies of the game have been purchased from Apple's App Store,[3]
which has prompted the company to design versions for other
touchscreen-based smartphones, including the Android, Symbian
and Windows Phone operating systems. It has since expanded to video game consoles, PCs and a full length feature film will release in 2016.
Angry Birds has been praised for its successful combination of
addictive gameplay, comical style, and low price. Its popularity led to
versions of Angry Birds being created for personal computers and
gaming consoles, a market for
merchandise featuring its characters and even long-term plans for a
feature film or television series. With 2 billion downloads across all
platforms and including both regular and special editions,[4][5]
the franchise has become the highest downloaded freemium
game of all time. It has
also been called "one of the most mainstream games out right now",[6]
"one of the great runaway hits of 2010",[7]
and "the largest mobile app success the world has seen so far".[8]
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[hide]Game series[edit]
Angry Birds[edit]
Main article: Angry Birds (video game)
The initial version of the game was released on iOS on December
10, 2009. In the game, players use a slingshot
to launch birds at pigs stationed on or within various structures, with
the intent of destroying all the pigs on the playing field. As players
advance through the game, new types of birds become available, some with
special abilities that can be activated by the player. Rovio Mobile has
supported Angry Birds with numerous free updates that add
additional game content, and the company has also released stand-alone
holiday and promotional versions of the game.[9]
Special editions[edit]
Angry Birds Seasons[edit]
Main article: Angry Birds Seasons
This game was first released on October 21, 2010 as Angry Birds
Halloween. Over time additional several holiday-themed episodes were
added.
Angry Birds Rio[edit]
Main article: Angry Birds Rio
Angry Birds Rio was released on March 22, 2011.[10]
The game is a marketing tie-in based on the 20th Century Fox animated film Rio.[10]
Angry Birds Space[edit]
Main article: Angry Birds Space
Angry Birds Space was released on March 22, 2012,[11]
The game features elements from the preceding Angry Birds games as well
as new gameplay mechanics.[11]
The stage is no longer flat, instead comprising several different
planets, each of which has its own gravitational field that affects the
trajectory of the birds after launch.[12]
Angry Birds Star Wars[edit]
Main article: Angry Birds Star Wars
Angry Birds Star Wars was released on November 8, 2012.
Merchandise related to the game was released on October 17. The game is a
crossover with the Star
Wars original trilogy, and casts the Angry Birds as the Rebels and
the Piggies as the Empire.
Angry Birds Friends[edit]
Main article: Angry Birds Friends
Angry Birds Friends was first released as a Facebook
app in May 2012 and was later released for mobile devices on May 2,
2013. The game features six-stage tournaments that change every week.
Angry Birds Star Wars II[edit]
Main article: Angry Birds Star Wars II
Angry Birds Star Wars II was released on September 18, 2013.
The game is compatible with Hasbro
Telepod technology to allow the player to summon a specific bird or pig
into the game. The game is a crossover with the Star Wars prequel trilogy, and for
the first time allows players to be either on the Bird Side as the birds
or the Pork Side as the pigs.
Angry Birds Go![edit]
Main article: Angry Birds Go!
Angry Birds Go! is an kart racing video game released on December 11, 2013. It is a
downhill racing game that features birds and pigs from the Angry Birds
series as racers, each with unique powers.
Spin-off[edit]
Main article: Bad
Piggies
A spin-off to Angry Birds, called Bad Piggies, was
released on September 27, 2012 on Mac, Android and iOS platforms. The
game is from the Pig's point of view, and involves building vehicles in
order to reach a goal point.
Other media[edit]
The Angry Birds characters have been referenced in television
programs throughout the world. The Israeli comedy show Eretz Nehederet (in English: a Wonderful Country),
one of the nation's most popular
TV programs, satirized recent failed Israeli-Palestinian peace attempts by featuring
the Angry Birds in peace negotiations with the pigs. Clips of the
segment went viral, getting viewers from all around the
world. The sketch received favorable coverage from a variety of
independent blogs such as digitaltrends.com,[6]
hotair.com[13]
and intomobile.com,[14]
as well as from online news media agencies such as Haaretz,[15]
The Christian Science Monitor,[7]
The Guardian,[16]
and MSNBC.[17]
American television hosts Conan O'Brien, Jon
Stewart and Daniel Tosh have referenced the game in comedy
sketches on their respective series, Conan, The Daily Show, and Tosh.0.[18][19][20]
In the 30 Rock episode "Plan B", guest star Aaron
Sorkin laments to Liz Lemon, "Our craft is dying while people are
playing Angry Birds and poking each other on Facebook". He then
provides a tip for Liz to improve her score in the game. In February
2011, American journalist Jake
Tapper mockingly introduced U.S. Senator Chris
Coons as the "Angry Birds champion of the Senate" during the National Press
Club's annual dinner.[21]
Some of the game's more notable fans include Prime Minister David
Cameron of the United Kingdom, who plays the iPad version of the
game, and author Salman Rushdie, who claims he is "something
of a master at Angry Birds".[22]
Basketball star Kevin Durant is an avid fan of Angry Birds,
and regularly plays other NBA stars in matches, although he is weary of
cheating.[23]
In August 2011, the Milwaukee Brewers played the Angry Birds theme song
during the pre-game introductions of the arch-rival St. Louis Cardinals players, in reference to former
Cardinals' manager Tony LaRussa's propensity
to bean
opposing players. Angry Birds also appears briefly, for comic
relief, during a scene in the 2013 film G.I. Joe: Retaliation, in which Zartan plays
the game while waiting for the world leaders' response to his threats of
annihilation. Angry Birds were featured in the 2013 Helsinki episode of
Veep, Even Angry Birds were parodied
in The Starving Games.
Angry Birds and its characters have been featured in
advertisements for other products. In March 2011, the characters began
appearing in a series of advertisements for Microsoft's Bing search engine.[24]
At the 2011 South by Southwest festival in Austin,
Texas, Nokia used scrims on a downtown building to project an
advertisement for its new N8 handset
that included the game's characters.[25]
A June 2011 T-Mobile advertisement filmed in Barcelona, Spain
included a real-life mock-up of the game in a city plaza,[26]
while Nokia used the game in Kuala
Lumpur, Malaysia to promote an attempt to set a world
record for the largest number of people playing a single mobile game.[27]
Finnair
has also used Angry Birds in their advertising, including taping an Airbus
A340 airliner with the Angry Birds figures and holding an Angry
Birds tournament on board a flight to Singapore.[28]
Rovio has also prepared a number of web-based promotional variants of Angry
Birds themed around creations of other companies, such as Finnish
snack company Fazer,[29]
Spanish pizza delivery chain Telepizza,[30]
and Japanese television network Fuji TV,[31]
as well as promotions of American brands including Cheetos,[32]
Wonderful
Pistachios[33]
and Coca-Cola.[34]
One of the 2012 New Models for Hot
Wheels cars from Mattel is based on the Red Bird from Angry Birds. The
package card bears both the Hot Wheels and Angry Birds logo.
The game's characters have been used, officially or otherwise, in
amusement park attractions. In September 2011, the Window of the World theme park in Changsha,
China opened an unlicensed Angry Birds attraction.[35]
Visitors to the park use a large slingshot to launch stuffed versions
of the bird characters at green balloons representing the pigs.[35]
Upon learning of the attraction, Rovio Mobile was reported to be
considering working with the theme park to officially license it.[36]
In March 2012, Rovio announced plans for an official Angry Birds
land (opened April 28, 2012) at the Särkänniemi adventure park in Finland.[37]
Angry Birds Theme Park is expected to open by May 2014 at Johor Baharu
City Centre in Malaysia.[38]
Most recently it was announced that UK theme park Thorpe Park will
open their own Angry Birds Land themed area within the park in May 2014.
The new area will consist of the reinstatement of the 4D Cinema with a
10 minute long Angry Birds film with 4D effects, a new addition of
themed Angry Birds Dodgems and a slight re-theme of existing drop tower
ride Detonator.
Also in March 2012, Formula 1 driver Heikki Kovalainen unveiled an Angry Birds crash
helmet that he will use in the 2012 season, following sponsorship from
Rovio. Kimi Räikkönen has also a Angry Birds
Space logo on his cap. Angry Birds has teamed up with the Lotus F1 Team for the upcoming 2012 Monaco Grand Prix, with its logo on the top of each
Lotus Renault F1 car's nosecone,[39]
as well as a promotional web-based version of Angry Birds in
honor of Kovalainen.[40]
HockeyBird, an angry hockey playing bird, was the official mascot of
the 2012 IIHF Ice Hockey World
Championships. It was designed by Toni Kysenius and Rovio
Entertainment.[41]
The game's popularity has spawned knock-off and parody games that
utilize the same basic mechanics as Angry Birds. For example, Angry
Turds features monkeys hurling feces and other objects at hunters
who have stolen their babies.[42]
Another game, entitled Chicks'n'Vixens and released in beta form
on Windows Phone devices, replaces the birds and pigs with chickens and
foxes, respectively.[43]
The developer of Chicks'n'Vixens intended the game as a
challenge to Rovio Mobile, which stated at the time that a Windows Phone
port of Angry Birds would not be ready until later in 2011.[43]
Angry Birds has inspired works of religious analogy. A
five-part essay entitled "Angry Birds™ Yoga – How to Eliminate the Green
Pigs in Your Life" was written by Giridhari Dasa of the International
Society for Krishna Consciousness (i.e. Hare Krishna) of Brazil,
utilizing the characters and gameplay mechanics to explain various
concepts of yoga
in Gaudiya Vaishnavism as understood and
interpreted by the Hare Krishna.[44][45][46][47][48]
The piece attracted much media attention, in Brazil and abroad, for its
unique method of philosophico-religious presentation.[49][50][51][52]
The piece was also recognized and appreciated by Rovio Mobile's Peter
Vesterbacka, who was prompted to comment on Twitter, "Very cool! I can
see Angry Birds Yoga becoming a worldwide craze;-)".[44]
Rovio is investigating ways to expand the Angry Birds brand,
including merchandise, television shows and movies.[53]
The game's official website offers plush
versions of the birds and pigs for sale, along with T-shirts featuring
the game's logo and characters.[54]
In May 2011, Mattel released an Angry Birds board
game, entitled "Angry Birds: Knock on Wood".[55]
Over 10 million Angry Birds toys have been sold thus far.[56]
Rovio opened the first official Angry Birds retail store in Helsinki on November 11, 2011 at
11:11am local time.[36]
It expects to open its next retail store somewhere in China, considered
the game's fastest-growing market.[36]
Merchandise has been successful, with 45% of Rovio's revenues in 2012
coming from branded merchandise.[57]
Mikael Hed, CEO of Rovio Mobile, has envisioned a feature film in the
stop-motion animation
style of Aardman Animation.[53]
To that end, Rovio has purchased a Helsinki-based animation studio to
prepare Angry Birds short cartoons on the Nicktoons station's Nickelodeon
Extra,[56]
the first of which was a Christmas special named "Wreck the Halls" that
debuted in December 2011.[58]
Rovio also hired David Maisel, former executive producer of Marvel Studios films such as Iron Man and Thor,
to head up production of feature-length films.[56]
Hed acknowledges that such a film would be years away, and that Rovio
must keep the characters relevant until then, by producing sequels or
new ports of the original game.[53]
Rovio officials have hinted that one such "sequel" will be told from
the pigs' point of view.[59]
On March 20, 2012, National Geographic published
a paperback book titled Angry Birds Space: A Furious Flight Into The
Final Frontier[60][61]
shortly before the release of Angry Birds Space which became
available on March 22, 2012.
At Spring 2012, Olvi started to manufacture Angry Birds softdrink, when
it made a deal with Rovio for making of them.[62]
First there came two different tastes, Tropic (tropical fruits).[62]
and Paradise (pineapple-mandarin).[62]
At September 2012 Olvi released two new tastes to the softdrink
collection, they were Lagoon (pear-apple) and Space
Comet (orange-cola).[63][64]
Angry Birds Toons, a TV series based on the game will make its
debut on March 16, 2013. Initially it will consist of 52 episodes, with
a duration between two and a half and three minutes each. Toons
will be released through third-party video distribution platforms,
including Comcast’s Xfinity On-Demand in the US, Samsung Smart TVs, and
Roku set-top boxes. It will also be available in a number of countries
on traditional television broadcasts. Rovio will also be bringing Angry
Birds Toons on the mobile devices by adding an additional Toons
channel on the Angry Birds apps homescreen.[4]
A 3D
computer-animated film has been
officially announced for release on July 1, 2016.
The film will be developed, produced and financed by Rovio and
distributed by Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment. The
film will be the first to be produced by Rovio, written by Jon
Vitti & directed by Clay Kaytis
and Fergal Reilly.[65][66][67]
Use by intelligence agencies[edit]
In January 2014, it was revealed that Angry Birds was
considered a "leaky app" and was used to collect data about its users
including their sexual orientation and location by the NSA and GCHQ.[68]
In retaliation, anti-NSA hackers defaced Rovio's website.[69]
Claims were made by Edward Snowden that the app was leaky and that they
were capable of siphoning off data.[70]
According to The Register, the information was leaked
through the in-game advertisement code like that embedded by Millennial Media: “Millennial's tracking software generates a
personal record for each user that can store information from their
political affiliation and sexual orientation to whether their marital
state was single, married, divorced, engaged or "swinger." This
information is used to target in-app ads more effectively, and can be
collected by UK and US intelligence agencies for analysis”.[71]
In a statement to the press, Rovio denied that they were themselves
providing any information to the intelligence agencies, but did not
exclude the possibility that their advertizes might do so.[72]
Following this revelation, on January 29, the Angry Birds site was
defaced by hackers who replaced it with "Spying Birds" via a DNS
hijacking attack. According to Rovio, "The defacement was caught in
minutes and corrected immediately".[72]
The Syrian Electronic Army tweeted after
the incident that the attack had been carried out by "a friend" of
theirs.[73]
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