Angry Birds is this famous

 

Angry Birds is this famous

It is not a big surprise to know that the highly successful game Angry Birds is played 5,000,000 (5 million) hours per day.

I just came across this article in the Business Insider, referring to The Telegraph, which says

"The 300 million total minutes clocked up each day represents the equivalent of a single gamer spending more than 570 years playing Angry Birds. Each day people spend 300 million minutes playing the game."

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Rovio, the Finnish game maker, says 30 million out of the 130 million players play the game everyday.

For a comparison, around 70,000 hours of video related is uploaded on YouTube everyday.

With Angry birds being such a phenomenal success and with its still increasing popularity, what's up the sleeve for Rovio?

A cartoon series of the games is being made by next year.

The company might go on an Initial Public Offer next year and even more interesting is a movie based on Angry Birds, slated for release in 2014.

In another Telegraph article, Peter Vesterbacka, the company’s chief marketing officer says :

“Making a movie is just one part of our game plan. We are here to make Angry Birds a permanent part of pop culture – like Mickey Mouse or Mario - and if making a movie helps with that then that’s great. But it’s not like making a move is our ultimate goal.”

Thus showing that Rovio is planning to get catapulted by their Angry Birds.

Another interesting and a probably unexpected news is that the game-maker's new ventures could include an Angry Birds cookbook of egg recipes. Of course there are also plans to make the popular game into a "big entertainment franchise" [read money spinning franchise].

In case you are wondering why only a cookbook on egg recipes, here is the answer: The birds in the game are angry because their eggs have been stolen by pigs and so the birds have to be catapulted towards pigs residing on a fortress.

Download Angry Birds for Windows PC.

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