Would You Watch An Angry Birds Web Series?

Angry Birds is one of the world’s favorite mobile games with their most recent release, Angry Birds Space, garnering a whopping 10 million downloads in less than three days.  People wear Angry Birds costumes, dream of Angry Birds theme parks, eat Angry Birds pizzas, and even shop in Angry Birds stores.  Soon, fans will be able to watch an Angry Birds web series as well.

Rovio has announced that they will be launching a 52-episode, weekly Angry Birds web series this fall.  Nick Dorra, head of animation at Rovio, said at the MIPTV conference in Cannes, “Angry Birds is not just about the gameplay, and will be in the future less and less about the slingshot, actually, and more and more about the characters.”  Dorra says, “We’re going to roll it out on all possible devices.  We’re looking at building a video app for that, and we’re also looking at partnerships and so on… We want to be on all screens.”
Though still primarily known for their mobile game, Angry Birds is far from new to the online video scene.  The Rovio Entertainment YouTube channel has over 452 million views thanks to popular Angry Birds videos.  Some of the most popular Angry Birds videos include a sweet cinematic trailer, a short about Mighty Eagle, and a holiday video called ‘Season’s Greedings!’
The tens of millions of views on these videos indicate that the Angry Birds series, when it launches this fall, will be a huge success.  Will you watch?  Or will you be too busy with slingshots on your mobile?

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‘Angry Birds Space’ Arrives in a Month

Apparently a year is too long to go without a new version of the game arriving, so Rovio’s put up a teaser page letting us know about the coming launch of Angry Birds Space, briefly mentioned in the latest Top 10 Tech This Week.
It’s been a while now since we’ve seen a full-on new edition of Angry Birds. Sure, Rovio regularly release new episodes for its Angry Birds games, full of new levels and the occasional new bird, but ignoring the Symbian-only Angry Birds Magic with its NFC tricks, the last we got was the promotional movie tie-in of Angry Birds Rio last March.
Details on the game are sparse, but Rovio has disclosed that it will be arriving on March 22. For some reason, the company’s recruited NASA and National Geographic as partners in the app’s launch, but it’s unclear how they could fit in besides just providing background imagery for the game.
How will Space differ from existing Angry Birds titles? The obvious change would be letting level designers mess around with the strength of gravity. There will also supposedly be a “lightspeed destruction” mode, though it’s unclear just what that will entail. Rovio will likely have more details to share, as well as some in-game footage, as we approach the launch date.

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