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.
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.
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.
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.
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.