In Real Life

Angry Birds Land Is Now A Real Place, And It’s In Finland

Angry Birds remains big business. The original, now-classic game continues to expand, and the sequel, Angry Birds Space, just hit the 50-million download milestone in 35 days.


January 25, 2012
In Real Life

Miss Finland Must Cosplay As Lara Croft

Eidos, the company behind Tomb Raider, killed off its real-life Lara Croft spokesgirls. They’ll “never happen again”, said Eidos. In Finland, they live on.


March 29, 2011
Mobile

Angry Birds Championship Held In A Shopping Centre

Finland’s two biggest exports are Nokia phones and casual game Angry Birds. Here, the two combine for a popular-as-hell live tournament that brings this shopping mall to a stand-still.


November 19, 2010
News

The Coolest Touchscreen You’ll Ever See

Lacking anything better to do in Finland, a team of Nokia researchers have created a touchscreen made entirely out of ice.


November 11, 2010
In Real Life

Finnish Kid Bums Mario, Socks Luigi Right In The Kisser

Let’s say you were on stage with Mario and Luigi during a Nintendo event at a digital entertainment fair in Helsinki. You lost the competition. Frustrated, what would you do? Dry hump Mario?


June 6, 2010
In Real Life

Mario Moves Up From Mushrooms

This isn’t run-of-the-mill blotter acid, this is some kind of souped-up Scandinavian hallucinogenic called Bromo-DragonFly, and as you can see, a new product needed a familiar pitchman to get a beachhead in a new market.


June 2, 2010
News

Another Habbo Heist Robs Furniture From 400 Finns

Cops are searching real homes for clues in the theft of virtual items from Habbo Hotel, the teen-oriented social game that’s been on the vanguard of virtual crime before. This time Finnish authorities are tracking some 400 cases of theft.