Another day, another teaser. Fresh on the heels of the leaked Angry Birds Rio Smugglers’ Plane images comes these images of the what will likely be be the next Angry Birds Seasons update. “Wreck the Halls” — or so it’s currently called — will be a Christmas / Wintery holiday theme. I normally don’t post something like this so early, but if you guys are anything like me I just can’t get enough of Angry Birds Seasons — especially this time of year. The images below obviously came from Game Center, but that’s all I will say about them at this point.
Update: At about 2:00 PM PST the “Wreck the Halls” icon, total score leaderboard, and achievements started showing up in Game Center. This could mean an update will land soon. If it’s an advent calendar (i.e. one level per day) like Seasons Greedings I’d expect to see it land tonight and contain 25 levels. Time will tell! Note, the four new achievements are hidden.
Now, here is what we DON’T know:
- We have no idea when this will be released
- There is no info on whehter it will be a full release or one level per day. I know many of you will disagree, but I hope for the advent style again.
- The name and icon could change. I hope the name sticks though, as it’s great.
- Will there be an explosive glitch that turns pigs into dynamite? One can wish!
Without further adieu, here are the images.
A BIG high five \o/ to [you know who you are] for tipping us off to this.
There is no info on whehter it will be a full release or one level per day. I know many of you will disagree, but I hope for the advent style again.I definitely agree with you, I really hope for an advent/1 level per day format just like Season’s Greedings and Summer Pignic.
Definately – gives more time to compete IMO, as one person who happens to be there within 5 seconds can often zoom away! :)
Oh yes this would be awesome. I missed last Christmas season and enjoyed summer pignic so much
yes, gives u more time to 3 star it
i hope that the seasons new theme is release fast so i could play it (and maybe a comic is released too:))
Oh yes, I agree. I really like the 1 level per day – it makes the game last so much longer and gives me incentive to try to improve my daily score beyond my normal ‘get three stars and move on’ mode.
Definitely prefer the advent style,especially at Christmas. It is like getting a little gift each day. Thanks for the news. Looking forward to it whenever it comes.
I like the advent style too, especially for Christmas. A new ‘present’ every day.
Me too,advent style,coz’ I started playing angry birds this July,so I missed the season’s greedings
did u miss pignic too?
I missed Advent and I SO am not going to miss this one!
This will be awesome, first rio update, and now seasons!
I think the new seasons episode will come out in december.
most likely, though the sooner the better :D
I disagree. I think rushing will result in bugs. I’d like to see a 1 Dec. release with an Advent calendar again, but there’s no evidence of that. Just speculation.
Agreed Slim, Most likely will follow last year’s christmas release which was Dec 1st. Expect the same release date for this year’s christmas. Just like the new Ham’0’ween update was released on the same day as last year’s halloween.
an advent calendar would be great; simultaneous daily PC updates would be better (but I shan’t hold my breath for that).
Also, maybe a future xmas update could be called “Ham for the Holidays”. Just a thought. “Wreck the Halls” is great too.
AMAZING :D ! i hope this new update will come with the orange bird :D
I agree. I want to see it in more updates!
They should do one for thanksgiving and have a guest appearance of a turkey. Ham and turkey are both traditional thanksgiving meals.
Looks unlikely, at least this year. Perhaps because Thanksgiving (in the US) does not align in time with a “Thanksgiving” equivalent in other countries. It is also very specific to the US, which is not a rapidly growing market for AB (compared to China, for example).
I second a Thanksgiving season to be included. It seems absolute insane to have a bird themed game combined with multi-holidays settings and NOT have Thanksgiving included. Emerging markets or not, this is a gift wrapped theme situation.
But consider the traditional role of the bird in the Thanksgiving holiday….
Good point.
I’m from south america and I think thanksgiving would be a nice episode
Nice! Hope the orange bird appears again and in ab original
I’d like to see an Angry Birds: NFL Edition
But NFL is only in the USA, not really in other countries…
Bring it on! The more, the better… and the good thing about Angry Birds, is that there are just too many themes they can go with.
Just for example: for this Christmas season, they could add a penguin to the bunch that slides across the ice and takes out blocks!
I was even thinking about an Angry Birds: Paradise… where they visit Madagascar to free the birds of paradise from the pigs!
Just to many too even think about! They’ve barely even scratched the surface with the amount of different birds we have…
hey slim, i looked on my gamecenter account and didn’t see the new app icon or the additional leaderboard total scores category. how come i can’t find it? was it there temporary?
Sorry, we cannot release that information. But we can say it is not visible at this time on GameCenter.
ha ha, ok I thought I was going crazy …
wish that they would change the pig and birds sprites like the ones in chrome
Not sure what you mean by that…
oh, i think i know what he means. he’s talking about the way the pigs and birds look a little different in the Google Chrome version than on the paid ones
I like the paid version better.Looks less rushed!
Woo! Although I know that Christmas is special, it would have been cool for them to do a New Years theme this year, (considering they did Christmas last year).
Oh and by the way, BL;
“4. Will there be an explosive glitch that turns pigs into dynamite? Wne can wish!”
If I am correct, I believe it’s “We” not “Wne” :)
Changed the text, thanks.
I have a suspicious feeling that we may see a Chinese New Year. Nothing to back it up, just a gut feeling.
ya
rovio might do that just to get more chinese players
not that it wouldn’t be cool
I hope they fix the muffled sound issue in Angry Birds Seasons for PC.
Are you talking to me AMslimfordy?
Yes, he is.
Yes, my question is directed to you. Do you have any evidence of your claims?
— Do you have evidence that the 2012 Seasons will precisely match the 2011 Seasons? I would think Rovio would swap a few maybe for other themes, such as Independence Day.
— How do you know the Orange Bird will still appear? We all assume it will, but it’s nothing more than an assumption. Also, what “female” white and red birds? The way they are right now is simply the way it plays.
— We know the Boomerang Bird will be in Rio (we have seen the data files), but do you have any evidence of the Orange Bird making an appearance?
That’s Right! Who’s the boss now (literally) slim! Get him slim.
I don’t think that the Orange Bird will appear because there has been one bird added per episode.
You can see the female red and white birds on the wiki. They are from Valentines day. Kind of the same thing as the Develepers Birds.
That Wiki is bloody nonsense. Don’t believe anything they say. They stole my World Traveler idea and claimed it was Rovio-official. They claimed Wreck the Halls was set to release on Dec. 1 with a Golden Egg in level 1-3. And they claimed the episode after Wreck would be Valentine’s Day.
The point is, there is no proof of any of these claims.
I don’t believe anything. I laughed to myself when I saw the white and Red female birds. I compared them to the developer birds as to say they were fake. The wiki has some good things but mostly as you said bloody nonsense.
What is “sandbox mode”? I have heard it be used before but I have no clue what it is/how to see updates information of up and coming games. Thanks for any good information.
Sandbox Mode is only for developers. Not for everyone.
Can’t wait for the new updates of Seasons and Rio!
Me Too!!
Hey Bird Leader! How could I make a site like this? I want to make a Cut The Rope one but don’t know how. Can you help me?
i also have a problem, none of the birds in angry birds rio having blinking eyes or moving mouths when they make noises. Hey slim can you notify Rovio of this bug please? My OCD’s kickin’ in.
Not a big deal really. I mean, you can write them about it if you want, but I’ll save my emails for larger issues.
do you maybe know why they did that?
i already wrote them about it like 2 weeks ago and no response
hey slim before you delete this post, please answer my question. Is it okay if i have a Gravatar image of South Park?
as long as its not inappropriate or offensive then you should be fine
If it is G it is fine.
well hopefully the orange bird will be there
I Like the icon of the angry birds seasons wreck the halls but where does the leaked images come from?
Game center just did a weird thing – when it refreshed, Rio’s achievements had gone up to 65 but when I went in to look, it went back to 58…..think the update is close!!!
I don’t know, I don’t see any new updates for rio in the app store.
No it wasn’t an update yet, the Game center generally updates the achievements first when an update is pending….that’s what I meant…..:)
Why not rovio add a boss level to the angry birds season wreck the halls update at the last level like example a giant snowpig with canons which shoot snowballs[same as in the angery birds rio carnival upheaval last level the floating ballons near and below the slingshot
I speculate it’s not so easy to change the Season’s current physics engine and gameplay while preserving backward compatibility with the previous episodes and devices. In rio, which was a new game, they could add new features easily…
Of course you never really know, that’s just my point of view as a programmer. Would like to be proven wrong! ;-)
Thanks for the reply
That would be cool! And i know the name, Frosty the evil piggy!
I know the new bird here: Purple Bird. I know many people will disagree to this comment but I am posting this will know the latest bird I know.
Do you have any evidence of this?
Also what would it do?
It’s nice to get seasonal updates for AB Seasons. But what about summer? There was only one episode for the entire season. How about a 4th of July episode? Or a Star Wars episode taking place inside the Death Star with lightsabres falling through blocks and the pigs wearing Darth Vader masks?
I think the last episode of AB seasons must be a mix of all the seasons that will be great!!11 PS: please name it seasonal battle
everyone……pls….can you help me……how can i replaced my picture????????LOL
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when will this update be available for andriod???????
See #1 in the post:
okay, this is just a guess but they might release the “Wreck the Halls” update on December 1st and do a advent calander like last year. Does anyone else agree or disagree?
Personally, I would like another Advent-style episode, but I doubt it — especially after the Summer Pignic criticism in June. Would love to be pleasantly surprised though.
I prefer the one-a-day style, it helps to avoid the “I can’t believe I just cleared the entire level in an hour, now what am I going to do until the next release” depression. ;)
Why skip thanksgiving?
It would have to be either Thanksgving or Christmas. No way to do both. Christmas spans the globe; Thanksgiving does not. Who knows, maybe next year.
There are two thanksgivings right? So what they could do is find the middle day in between them and release an update for thanksgiving!
I think Thanksgiving is more of an American holiday. I remember there was a asian contest when the mooncake festival came out. Maybe the eposide was kinda tied in with their trip to China.
rovio has anoused that this update will proplay not have a tnt pig glitch
Darn it!!! I missed that glitch and I want to play with the glitch myself!!
i sad prolbay it might hapen
Where and when did rovio announce this?
We explained our sources in the post…
More specifically, the exploding pig glitch… but thanks for the effort to answer my question :-D
I haven’t seen an announcement from Rovio about the glitch, but I would imagine their goal is to not have any glitches at all.
on the 27 of nov.
and some how i got the anowse