Angry Birds Angry Birds Angry Birds is a video game franchise created by Finnish company Rovio Entertainment. The series focuses on multi-colored birds who try to save their eggs from green-colored pigs, their enemies. Inspired by "Crush the Castle", the game has been praised for its successful combination of fun gameplay, comical style, and low price. Its popularity led to many spin-offs, versions of "Angry Birds" being created for PCs and video game consoles, a market for merchandise featuring its characters, a televised cartoon series, and a feature film. In January 2014 there had been over two billion downloads across all platforms,
Angry Birds (video game) the top 10 for paid iPhone/iPod apps, while its iPad-exclusive "Angry Birds HD" versions were the top-selling and top-downloaded iPad apps for the year. Mattel also made a few board games based on the app. These were called "Angry Birds: Knock on Wood, Angry Birds: On Thin Ice" and "Angry Birds: Mega Smash". In February 2010, "Angry Birds" was a nominee for the "Best Casual Game" award at the 6th annual International Mobile Gaming Awards in Barcelona, Spain. In September 2010, IGN named "Angry Birds" as the fourth best iPhone game of all time. In April 2011, "Angry Birds" won