October 11th, 2012

Rovio’s First Book App, Bad Piggies Best Egg Recipes, Takes It Further Into Non-Fiction, Non-Gaming Territory

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After Rovio last week put out a teaser for its very first book app, with an announcement full of addled-looking pigs, today it’s unveiled the actual product: it’s an app for a cookbook about eggs — which happened to be the subject of Rovio’s first printed book effort, too. Bad Piggies Best Egg Recipes is being put out first as an iPad app, the company announced today at the Frankfurt Book Fair. → Read More

September 27th, 2012

An Afternoon With Bad Piggies, Rovio’s Next Hit

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You’ve probably already heard, but just in case you forgot to wear your Angry Birds merchandise, Bad Piggies has just hit the scene. It’s Rovio’s latest and greatest, and it brings something slightly different to the mix.

Instead of flinging birds through the sky, or space, you’re actually much more concerned with the Pigs. The goal is to reach the finish line of a map by constructing vehicles… → Read More

September 27th, 2012

Bad Piggies Is A Hit, Taking Just 3 Hours To Hit The Top Spot In The U.S. App Store

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And just like that, Rovio is back to number 1. The Finnish gaming company today launched Bad Piggies, an entirely new game that features some of the same characters from the smash hit, Angry Birds.

In this iteration, however, you play the game from the pigs’ point of view, building vehicle-style contraptions to get you through the map.

The game only launched a few hours ago, at 3am ET, yet… → Read More

September 27th, 2012

Rovio’s Bad Piggies Goes Live In The App Store: Build Bridges, Don’t Burn Them

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Angry Birds is now a household name. Even Rovio (the company responsible for the ultra-successful bird-flinging app) is a logo as familiar as EA’s. But today we’ll have to add another bit of vocabulary to our lexicon. Prepare yourselves: Bad Piggies has arrived.

We’ve known about Bad Piggies for a while, but only a lucky few have actually played the game. Quite a bit hinges on it. As you… → Read More

September 4th, 2012

Bad Piggies: Rovio’s Next Game Will Let You Play As The Pigs, Launches September 27

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You can only kill so many pigs in Angry Birds before you inevitably start to feel a bit of empathy with them, so it doesn’t come as a huge surprise that the next game in Rovio‘s franchise will let you experience the Angry Birds universe from the pigs’ perspective. The game will launch on September 27 and will be available for iOS, Android and Mac. Rovio tells us that Windows Phone, Windows 8 and… → Read More