Well, I'm lucky: I'm from Turkey!!!! 5.5 hours to Rio!!!!

This is my first post in any forumn, ever. I'm not sure whether AB RIO is coming to webOS tomorrow the 22nd or whether I have to wait weeks or what??? precentral doesn't say much and i'm not a tweeter so i'm out of the loop on that one...

Considering a plane ticket to Turkey so i can play this one tonight...

2 hours 15 minutes!!!!!!!!!!!

@vezok1090 LOL!

My version just updated and the ads in the pause screen are MOST ANNOYING! Bad idea on their part and I'm completely turned off by the game now.

This movie trailer is a thing of beauty....

I'm surprised they needed to say it wasn't official - the whole thing has its tongue planted firmly in cheek. 'Visonary director Michael Bay'? LOL.

(Oh, and be on the lookout for the homage to Indiana Jones. It's priceless.)

@ladycrumb Thanks for sharing the movie trailer. I was finally able to post it to the front page (I've been swamped with trying to improve the leaderboards).

Also the Angry Birds Rio theme music is available for purchase on iTunes as well. Here's a link: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/angry-birds-rio-salsa-single/id426982849

Any word on the Android version of Mighty Eagle? I know they were trying to work out the specifics of the payments but shouldn't that be fixed now with the Amazon Appstore?

@BirdLeader I agree that the amount of data transfer would be very great. However, similar (or more extensive things) have been done before. Look at Steam. Very large downloads. The service part is free to the consumer. Or look at Apple's App Store, for instance. Rovio would be able to do it; they just need a data center to handle the storage space and bandwidth requirements. Comparing Rovio is Apple isn't fair; Rovio is a game developer, Apple had over $65 billion in revenue in 2010. But comparing Rovio to Valve, that's another story. Valve was also just a game developer with one intellectual property when they decided to revolutionize the way games were distributed via PCs in the central manner that was easy and free to the consumer.

The most bandwidth-intensive part of all of this, the way I see it, is saving progress to the cloud. And this same aspect of a potential system that we're discussing is also what you have concerns about with having non-synced parallel data. How is this solved? Instead of continuously uploading and downloading a save file to and from the cloud...you just have the levels' progress saved individually. There's no master save file that could get out of sync. Each level is saved individually; this cuts down tremendously on the amount of data transfered back-and-forth; instead of a whole save file, it's a very small part. So with players who are using devices that aren't always connected to the Internet (such as an iPod Touch, Wi-Fi only iPad, et cetera), the progress is saved locally until they are connected. Could this still create syncing problems? Absolutely. But upon connecting to the Internet, if the local data is ever "better" than the cloud data, it would be synced. There are problems when you don't connect for a long time on one device (especially when this device has a lot of local progress saved), then decide to log in on another device. But these problems would be minimized for sure. I think that overall, as more-and-more people are playing on devices that are always connected (or at least connected a vast majority of the time), these problems become minor and insignificant in the grand scheme of things.

Is this whole idea totally original? By no means whatsoever. However, it obviously hasn't been done very well, or developers would be using it. Steam had a semi-slow start, but then exploded. It's hard now to find PC games (and more recently Mac games) that aren't on Steam. When a needed system finally hits the market that is executed correctly by a source that developers will trust (again, Steam was created by a fellow-developer in the eyes of many, which I think contributed a lot to its success), it can really change the way a lot of games are used.

Again, though, I don't have any inside information about Rovio's plans. I don't have any proof at all that they plan to create such a system. It's just a hunch. But I think if any mobile gaming developer or company is in the position to create such a system that would have a good chance of succeeding, it'd be Rovio.

Angry Birds Seasons update, Easter Edition. Other updates too.

http://www.brightsideofnews.com/news/2011/4/10/for-angry-birds-fans2c-a-bunch-of-updates.aspx

@Falcon72, we don't have an EXACT date but Rovio has said "next week". I think it might hit as early as this weekend though as the usual timeline for the most recent updates have hit 2 weeks before the specific holiday.

@RLZIII, hey maybe they'll make a little version of Angry Birds about Japan which is paid and donate half the money they'll earn from this. This could be the Angry Birds game we haven't heard about releasing next week :)))))

Piggy Bunnies coming