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Angry Birds Rio arrives exclusively for Android on Amazon App Store

Categories: Android, Applications, Gaming
By: , IntoMobile
Monday, March 14th, 2011 at 9:19 AM

The Angry Birds phenomenon rages on with a new version of the game available for Android exclusively through the Amazon App Store. It’s a bit unusual for the game to be sold exclusively through a distributor not known for its popularity for mobile apps, so one has to wonder about the deal that Amazon and Rovio brewed up.

Angry Birds RIO, in conjunction with Twentieth Century Fox, will be available from the Amazon app store and features birds from the animated movie RIO.

To date, over 30 million copies of the popular birds-versus-swine game have been sold for the Android platform. While Angry Birds has been on the market for over a year now, it shows no signs of slowing in terms of downloads and growth across all available platforms.

For more details on Angry Birds RIO, see the press release on the following page, or see this link to download the game for your Android handset.

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Marc has been a mobile fanatic for the better part of a decade and has had more devices pass through his hands than he would care to count. Originally from Los Angeles and briefly in San Francisco, Marc now lives in Brooklyn where, unlike Will Park, he longs for simpler times and simpler technology. All the while, he writes about gadgets and wireless technology as he tinkers, hacks and ultimately breaks most of his gadgets in the process. Marc has written about the mobile industry for Boy Genius Report, MobileCrunch, Laptop Magazine and has had his work appear in the Wall Street Journal, Gizmodo, CrunchGear and more.