Sunday, January 29, 2012

Rovio's Angry Birds Peaks at 6.5 Million Downloads on Xmas Day

By Adam Walcott


It seems that the Angry Birds game will stop at nothing. You can tell by the number of downloads it gained last Christmas. Rovio Entertainment, the developing company responsible for the addictive game, reported that three of its recently made games have been downloaded six point five million downloads. And that is just on Christmas Day alone.

Rovio has announced that it will release more versions of the game within the next several months. For an Angry Birds fanatic, it is fantastic news. For the company, it means bigger bucks and a stack of compliments that it constantly gets from Angry Birds users. Rovio's new line of games will promise a lot surprises and loads of fun that the Angry Birds is well known for.

The successful game platform has showed no signs of slowing down as it constantly tries to maintain a comfortable as the most favored mobile game in the world. The large chunk of downloads that propelled the popularity of the game are from Android and iOS users. Despite the game being popular in such mobile operating systems, the game is also available on other platforms as well. An Angry Birds Chrome is already available for download in Google's own browser.

You can also spot Angry Birds in Windows powered devices in tablets, personal computers and smartphones. You can also find the game in Blackberry and Nokia handsets. Based on recent statistics, downloads of applications from the Android and iOS totaled two hundred forty two million downloads on Christmas Day alone.

If Angry Birds were to measured as to how much slice it would get from other app downloads on that day, it would take in a slice of nearly three percent of downloads on that day. You can observe how much of an impact Angry Birds has generated over the last couple years. In 2010 the video game gained a total of fifty million downloads. By 2011, it has surpassed the one hundred millionth mark and it still gains healthy downloads up until this day.




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