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Man Proposes With Romantic Hacked Version of 'Angry Birds'

Drew Weisholtz — Sat, 04 May 2013 00:34:36 +0000

Angry Birds has made for one happy woman. An Australian man recently proposed to his girlfriend in a specially-designed version of the popular game. During lunch last month, Ben Levi asked Melissa Swift if she wanted to play Angry Birds Friends. She took him up on the offer and nothing seemed out of the ordinary [...]

Angry Birds Space Will Have You Squashing Pigs 'Star Trek' Style

Jeremy Taylor — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 18:30:59 +0000

Last week Angry Birds invaded Facebook, and next month the sling-shot strategy game will be headed to the final frontier. Yup, it’s Angry Birds Space. The new edition is set for release on March 22 and will join the original version, Angry Birds Seasons, Angry Birds Rio and Angry Birds Facebook in Rovio’s Angry Birds’ franchise. If [...]

Angry Birds Comes to Facebook [VIDEO]

Tom McCarthy — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:22:35 +0000

As if Facebook wasn't enough of a time-vampire, now there's this

Angry Birds Save Christmas [VIDEO]

Tom McCarthy — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 16:16:48 +0000

It appears as though the Angry Birds have done it again - they've saved the day from those pesky, pain-in-the-rear green pigs.

'Pig Out' With the Angry Birds Pizza [PHOTO]

Jeremy Taylor — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 15:00:25 +0000

Angry Birds and pizza — two of modern life’s most addictive things — come together in this nifty photo, which was posted on Deviant Art user Ilovetohavfun’s account. As you can see, the cardinal bird topping the pie is made from mushrooms, olives, red peppers and pineapples. If pizza wasn’t so yummy, we’d be reluctant [...]

Teacher Uses Angry Birds to Explain Projectile Motion to Students

Grace Niemitalo — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 15:30:26 +0000

With over 200 million downloads to mobile devices, Angry Birds is a full-fledged phenomenon. Now an Atlanta teacher has found a way to use it as an educational tool as well.

Since the birds are catapulted into the sky, John Burk, a ninth-grade physics teacher, felt it was a great way to teach students the laws of projectile motion.

Angry Birds Goes… Desktop?

107.9 The River — Wed, 11 May 2011 19:03:09 +0000

The foul flinging puzzle game Angry Birds was released for the iPhone in December of 2009, and since then over 12 million copies have been purchased in Apple’s App Store. The makers of Angry Birds, Rovio Mobile, have since designed the game for other smartphones such as those using the Android OS.