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) in revenue from the advertising that appears in the free Android version. According to Rovio, players logged more than 5 million hours of game time each day across all platforms, with the series having 200 million monthly active users, as of May 2012. In November 2010, Digital Trends stated that "with 36 million downloads, "Angry Birds" is one of the most mainstream games out right now". MSNBC's video game news blog has written that "[n]o other game app comes close" to having such a following. "The Christian Science Monitor" has remarked, ""Angry Birds" has been one of the great runaway