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The good folks at Rovio have promised to keep updating its Angry Birds games and it posted a teaser trailer for the upcoming update to Angry Birds Seasons. This one is titled, “Summer Pignic” and it looks to really up the difficulty. From the brief seconds we get to see the updated Angry Birds Seasons…
Hot on the trails of Plants vs. Zombies being made available on Android, PopCap games has just announced another one of their highly popular titles, Peggle, is now available for Android. As with PopCap Games’ previous offering of Chuzzle and Plants vs. Zombies, Peggle will be exclusive to the Amazon Appstore for two weeks, then…
It’s “Android porting” craze out there. OpenFeint and ScoreLoops have such programs in place and now Tapjoy is joining the party with a brand new $5 million Android Fund. As part of the deal, they will offer monetary and development support to game developers looking to port existing content and apps to the Android platform.…
Social gaming company CrowdStar is going for the well-underserved female gamers. Their latest title, Top Girl, is made for iOS-based devices and is NOT connected to the company’s Facebook game – It Girl. However, Top Girl does leverage on the experience and assets CrowdStar built on Facebook. As such, Top Girl is a mobile role-playing…
When it comes to spending money on technology, we’d like to believe we are best at it, but apparently you don’t work for the US government. It appears that after the government gets your tax checks in, they go on a tech shopping spree much like we do when we get our tax returns. Gizmodo…
Bungie, the game developer behind the world-renown Halo franchise, has released their first iPhone app, called Bungie Mobile. Halo: Reach fans will be able to track their stats (including progress towards commendations), follow friends, and keep up to date with the latest Halo news. There’s also talk about some kind of online swag bag, which…
Angry Birds. Who ever would have thought that more than a year later, that addicting little mobile game would be so huge that we can’t stop yapping about it? The iPhone version of the game has just been updated with 15 new levels, and unlimited use of the Mighty Eagle when you purchase it just…
I’m in Finland for the next few days taking a tour of the country’s tech scene (disclosure: FinnFacts paid for my trip) and you just know I had to visit the Angry Birds’ nest at the Rovio headquarters. Located about 10 minutes away from downtown Helsinki, the Rovio HQ is paradise for anyone who likes…
After Chillingo we have another gaming company announcing its iOS figures. This time around it’s Gameloft which said it has surpassed the 200 million download milestone since the launch of the App Store. Major hit franchises such as N.O.V.A. – Near Orbit Vanguard Alliance, Asphalt, Modern Combat and Let’s Golf have contributed to this monumental…
And the latest addition to Rovio’s Angry Birds empire will be… (drums please)… a cookbook. That’s right, after t-shirts, animated series, board game (in partnership with Mattel) and computer speakers, Angry Birds-themed cookbook is in works. Apparently Rovio has been in discussion with a number of companies — including Amazon, Apple and Barnes & Noble…