Angry Birds (video game) mainstream games out right now", "one of the great runaway hits of 2010", and "the largest mobile app success the world has seen so far". In "Angry Birds", the player controls a flock of multi-colored birds that are attempting to retrieve their eggs, which have been stolen by a group of hungry green pigs. In each stage of the gameplay, enemy pigs are sheltered by structures made of various materials such as wood, glass, and stone resembling children's toy building blocks. The objective of the game is to eliminate all the pigs on the level. Using a slingshot, players launch
Angry Birds (video game) hits of 2010". In December 2010, in honor of the one-year anniversary of the release of "Angry Birds", Rovio Mobile announced that the game had been downloaded 50 million times, with more than 12 million on iOS devices and 10 million on Android. By January 2014, the "Angry Birds" series had reached 2 billion downloads, including "Angry Birds", "Angry Birds Seasons", "Angry Birds Rio", "Angry Birds Space", "Angry Birds Star Wars I & II" and "Angry Birds Go!" On Christmas Day 2011 alone, 6.5 million copies of the various "Angry Birds" games were downloaded across all supported platforms. In the