While we all obsessed with the upcoming release of Angry Birds Space (many links: official announcement, meet the birds, gameplay footage, and backgrounds), Rovio has been hard at work expanding outward.
First, while on the topic of Angry Birds Space, Rovio has teamed up with MTV in a promotion against Cyber Bullying. As explained in their press release, Rovio is joining MTV’s “A THIN LINE” campaign and MTV will be airing an Angry Birds-themed public service announcement on their channels. Additionally, starting on March 22nd with the Angry Birds Space release and extending through April, Angry Birds players will receive a hint to accessing a secret Golden Egg level in Angry Birds Space by contributing to MTV’s Draw Your Line app. Cyber Bullying affects nearly 50% of all adolescents and teens in the United States, and less than 20% of those bullied report it to a parent, so this is a very valuable cause to support.
Rovio has also partnered with Finnish Formula One driver Heikki Kovalainen, according to the racer’s website. This collaboration not only features Kovalainen in a nifty new helmet, but will also merchandise and a new Angry Birds web based game. The merchandise will be co-branded, presumably between Rovio and F1, and should be released this spring. The new web game will be launching sometime in the summer and will likely feature some cool level designs. For those interested, here’s a fun fact. This is actually the second Angry Birds reference to a Finnish F1 driver (preceded by Keke Rosberg in Danger Above 7-11).
Now for the grand-daddy of them all, and straight from The Mighty Eagle himself.
CMO Peter Vesterbacka told Business Insider that Rovio plans to launch FIVE brand new apps this year, with Angry Birds Space being only the beginning. While not specifically said, we think that the web games — such as the F1 above — are not included in that list, but could be wrong. Rather, we think that this counts only full-blown apps like Space and Rio. Also of notable interested, Rovio is working on their first non-Angry Birds app in over three years. For those who don’t know the story, Rovio created about 50 apps and was on the verge of bankruptcy before Angry Birds took off like — well like a rocket for space. Whether this new app will be as big as Angry Birds remains to be seen, but I will be buying it the day it is released, that’s for sure.
Let us conclude by putting everyone’s minds at ease. Vesterbacka specifically said in his interview with Business Insider, “What’s very important, we are doing frequent updates to all our games.”
5 new apps!?!?!?! What could they be???
(&yes!!! Rank advancement!!!)
I would like to hope that they would be
-Angry Birds Space (ofcourse)
-Angry Birds Local
-Angry Birds WebonApp (so all the web episodes could be playable on your mobile divice)
-And few others
And maybe some ice-hockey angry birds app, beacause the Hockey birds :)
Wow! Rovio sure is active this year, and this is just the beginning!
Can’t wait!!!:):):)
5 new apps? wow that’s a lot! TBH, I don’t want them all to be brand new games (unless of course they’re different games entirely) otherwise there would be too much of the same thing in one year!
I think “The Mighty Eagle” said five new Angry Birds games, including AB Space, and one new “non angry birds” venture. I could be wrong though.
hmmm, if that is the case, and they’re all full sized games, like ABo, ABS, ABR, then that’s going to be ABOverload!
I’m wondering if all 5 games are really AB? If you read it carefully, the statement about 5 AB games is the reporters, and we all know how accurate reporters are. Further down, when there is what is supposed to be a quote from Vesterbacka, he mentions 5 games, but doesn’t identify all as AB. They are clearly planning to release at least one non-AB game, plus lots (I hope) of AB updates. I posted this in the forum, but it obviously belongs here.
Cool! 5 new games! That is much! I like the new Angry Birds F1 helmet! Keep up the hard work Rovio! :)
I hope they are not taking on too much, only to put out 5 substandard apps, when they could make 1-2 really good ones.
My thoughts exactly as I was reading the post. But, Rovio has not let me down yet.
I was thinking the same thing. I do hope that one of them is the AB game that goes around the world to different countries.
if those new apps will be great ( what else ;) ) will you expand abn to kinda like a rovio site with walkthroughs ant hints for all of rovios app? or will you decide when you see the apps?
do they mean 5 new games or just 5 new apps? (app could be anything mustn’t be a game?!)
We are already prepared to expand outward via RocketPond. But if it’s just Angry Birds, those will see in-house on ABN.
Way to go ABN…..hope abn will further thrive…
So ABS, ABIndonesia(?) maybe some other localized ones? I think an AB Time travel one would be really cool
I, too, think an AB TimeTravel would be excellent.
I am afraid that if Rovio really does introduce 5 new games that I will get nothing at all accomplished this entire year. And I would guess that Slim, BL, and Fuji will have to recruit some additional employee/volunteers to act as junior admins.
Let the fun begin!
5 new apps!
Whats really matter is the last phrase of the article….frequent updates for Angry Birds…
The problem with 5 new apps is it needs to be different. Space will be good because gravity will be different, but if the 5 will all be just different backgrounds like ABS, people won’t buy them
I would definitely buy them, especially if there was a world traveler one. With the speed which most of us complete the new levels, we are always hungry for a new update to play.
In my opinion though, we need plenty of golden eggs in each version, and ME on all versions and all platforms.
What if AB star wars in app?
Dang. 5 apps!
And look, this is only THIS YEAR. Imagine next year…
Hopefully they make Angry Birds 365 and local as well.
This is awesome.
Woo hoo! Thanks ABN for letting us know here at this site! And thanks rovio also! Go antibullying! This is gonna be a good year, I can feel it ;)
The Year of Angry Birds! Awesome! Can’t wait for AB Space…and it’s just the beginning! To infinity and Beyond!
Don’t know where this would be relevant, but here goes…
I was wandering through my local neighborhood Staples and saw a display for AB character flash drives, with the promotion of a Golden Egg flash drive for collecting all of the bird drives.
It sounds cool, but I really don’t need that many flash drives.
And here’s an article about that: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/1/prweb9082420.htm
I may have to get one! I like Big Red the best, and my cat claimed my small plush toy, so I need a replacement :).
awesome! i am so excited i can’t believe that theres 5 new apps!
Wow, 2012. 5 games. Can’t wait!
Kimi has his own bird in Angry Birds Space. Of course it is called as “Ice Bird”:
http://www.hs.fi/urheilu/Kimi+R%C3%A4ikk%C3%B6nen+sai+oman+Angry+Birds-hahmon/a1305557934301
There hardworking,because of that,Rovio has been expanded there own work many, challange
comes many apps comes O.o
GOD BLESS TO ROVIO!
Yeah. I guess one of these games will be that racing game I kinda remember Rovio was talking about a while back. It’s seems like 4 more new game will be too much. I would happy with just with Space & another yet to be know game
This is going to make my computer memory full!
5 new apps! Wow, these guys are great! It’s like they never sleep.
5 new apps!
1.ABFacebook
2.ABSpace
3.?
4.?
5.?
I don’t believe Facebook is one
1. ABSpace
2. I think one with Formule 1
I think Formula 1 will just be a web-game, not a full app.
A guess: Angry Birds Food?
Just like Birdday Party?
I hear that will one be,something like that – Angry Bird tour in all world!15,or 30 levels in all continents!!!
That would be a really cool idea. I think It would just have national landmarks & tourist site (Theme music would be the national anthem). IDK just my guess
That’s just a concept, by Slim.
Lol this is going to be a hard year for Rovio,5 new games,that is a lot.I hope that they are going to be awesome just like Angry Birds.
I’ve been playing AB for a long time so it’s nice to see a different game from the same developer.
I thought there was going to be a valatime’s and st patrick’s update?
No, Rovio never made such an announcement.
Five new and totally different games or five new Angry Birds game???
Slim, will you post the secret GE Hint? I hope you would post it.
We haven’t discussed this yet. Most likely, yes, we will post the directions for obtaining the Golden Egg, with encouragement to participate in the “A Thin Line” campaign. After all, it is a very good cause. :)
BTW I mis-spelled my name on the comment before this. It should be MonsterBigBro12, not MonsterBigBro1e.