The Origin of Angry Bird

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The Angry Birds are Flying to Rio

ANGRY BIRDS, Rovio’s blockbuster smart phone and tablet game that has become a global cultural sensation, and RIO, one of the year’s most anticipated motion picture events, are joining forces to create a new game, ANGRY BIRDS RIO – representing a first-of-its-kind game development partnership between Rovio and Twentieth Century Fox. The announcement was made today by Mikael Hed, CEO at Rovio Mobile, which created ANGRY BIRDS, and Peter Levinsohn, president of new media and digital distribution for Twentieth Century Fox, which releases RIO in theaters worldwide on April 15.

This unique spin-off of ANGRY BIRDS will take flight around the world in March, coinciding with RIO’s gala world premiere event. To celebrate the partnership and give fans a sneak preview of the story surrounding ANGRY BIRDS RIO, Rovio and Fox have posted a video (view below!)

"ANGRY BIRDS RIO is a match made in heaven for a mobile application and a major motion picture, and this collaboration with Fox is definitely one the most exciting partnerships we have entered into with the ANGRY BIRDS brand to date," said Mr. Hed. "In addition to expanding the horizons of two fantastic entertainment brands and creating a great new gaming experience, we have also taken the concept of combining a mobile application and motion picture promotion to an entirely new level."

“In partnering with Rovio, we are combining the world’s hottest application developer with one of the motion picture industry’s premier creative forces to introduce the millions of fans of ANGRY BIRDS to the exciting world of RIO,” said Mr. Levinsohn. “Our relationship with Rovio is another great example of Fox Digital Entertainment’s continuing work to extend our content to a variety of digital platforms.”

In ANGRY BIRDS RIO, the original Angry Birds are kidnapped and taken to the magical city of Rio, where they eventually escape their captors and set out to save their friends, Blu and Jewel – two rare macaws and the stars of the upcoming Fox motion picture, RIO. Like the incredibly-popular original edition, ANGRY BIRDS RIO will feature hours of gameplay, physics-based demolition challenges and loads of replay value – all with unique twists based on the highly-anticipated film.

ANGRY BIRDS RIO will launch with 45 dedicated levels and will regularly add new levels via app updates. The game will be available for download on smart phones and tablets worldwide.

Angry Birds Christmas Update Coming

Want to add a bit of anger to this year's Christmas season? Then let Rovio and Angry Birds help you out - thanks to an update coming to everyone's favorite bird-slinging, pig-hitting iPhone game.

It'll be a free update to anyone who buys or has already bought the Halloween version of Angry Birds.

Like the original Angry Birds iPhone game, Angry Birds Halloween sells for 99 cents on the App Store and gives users a number of new bird-flinging levels in a black-and-orange backdrop with different scenery.

However, unlike the core game, the Halloween edition did not expand beyond the iPhone, leaving Android users on the wrong side of the trick-or-treat spectrum.

A Twitter user, nickbouwhuis, poked Rovio in a message asking if the upcoming slate of Christmas levels would cost money. Rovio responded in its own Tweet, saying, "it's a free update to the Halloween game for iPhone and iPad."

So it sounds like the Christmas Angry Birds game will be exclusive to iDevices as well. Of course, Android guys can't complain too much since their version of the casual game is a free download while anyone with an iPhone or iPad has to pay for it. Rovio earns ad money for copies downloaded to Android.

This, combined with Angry Birds plush toys and iPhone cases, ensures that this year, the halls will be decked with boughs of ticked-off chirping instead of the usual holly.

Beware of the fake Angry Birds

A mobile security expert really wanted to demonstrate how vulnerable Android was to potential attacks, so he did it in the most recognized way possible - using the mega hit game Angry Birds.

Luckily, though, no Androids were harmed in the making of this hacked Angry Birds level. It was in fact only a demo created by the chieft technical officer of security company Scio Security, Jon Oberheide.

Because the Android Market is an open platform an extremely easy to get accepted into, Oberheide was able to put up an app that disguised itself as being an official Angry Birds app.

The app, a trojan, was able to bypass security procedures on Android to gain access to all sorts of data on any phone it would have been installed on. But because it was just an app to prove a point, Google pulled it from the Market aftet a few hours.

It's certainly not the first time Android's security has come into question. Reports on the subject have found numerous apps, downloaded thousands of times, that hide their intentions and grab personal data on the phone without the phone owner even knowing.

However, this is the first time someone has used a high-profile mobile game to demonstrate the platform's security holes. It makes it a bit more relevant to users who may not appreciate huge reports that talk about "remote execution" or "bypassed security protocols."

The main issue to take away from the Angry Birds incident is the failed acceptance procedure in the Android Market. Because of its manipulative code and deceptive description, it should never have even made it live on the digital storefront.

So, before you start downloading a bunch of cool game add-ons that sound too good to be true, you might wanna do some research first. Hopefully this Oberheide guy didn't give any bored hackers some crazy ideas.

Via Examiner