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Is CoD anywhere near these numbers?

First thing I did when I got this phone - download angry birds. True dat.

I don't really like it, the controls aren't very good.

My word that's a lot of money they've made.

I guess it's this generation's Tetris, not sure about Doom though. Was Doom even the biggest selling game of its generation? I always thought of Doom as being significant for making a genre popular.

I was more thinking in cultural impact than outright money made.

Hard to say, there's no guarantee that the next thing to distract all those people once they're bored with Angry Birds will even be another game.

Is there much of cultural impact in something you only do for 5 minutes a day? I'd be interested to know how they arrive at that 'active users' figure.

Game Center is logging everything you do, innit.

If you log into Game Center.

Is this out for the PC yet?

Yes and 'free' at the moment ?

http://www.gamepro.com/article/news/218 ... ee-for-pc/

I am slightly baffled by its popularity. It's not particularly engaging.

It's shit.

1. Fire bird at pig
2. Miss by a fraction of a degree
3. Repeat, with no reference to your previous attempt

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What version are you using? On my android one there are dotted lines showing you the last trajectory and 3 bird explosion point.

I haven't played it in over a year. I don't remember it having trajectory lines for your previous shot back then.

I also was not overly impressed by it. Pretty ordinary

You missed out "Restart, because if you've missed once, you've not got enough birds left to complete the level"

It's almost as if nobody remembers the ridiculous obsession with mediocre-at-best 'snake' games back in 2001.

It gets a bit big, it gets a bit popular, and from then on the two just fuel each other until everyone in the world has it, plays it for 30 seconds, talks about it at school to look hip, then forgets about it.

Unlike Doom or Tetris, I have never played Angry Birds.

And they have raised £42M in VC from the back of it.

Mobile Apps are quite the flavour at present. Especially since the dot com bubble investors understand burn rate now.

Bayonetta.

Can't say I've got the urge to try it out either.

Angry Birds was great at the start, when the original levels were easy to complete and move on, but you could spend hours getting the best scores possible. You had both variety and high score chasing, and you did get more skillful and precise as time went on.
The latest releases seem to all be levels that are very complex and need precision right from the very start, so don't give you the the ability to rush through to complete or spend hours getting the last few points. The originality of level design has been replaced by gimmicks...

I played the first release to death, but never play it anymore.

Yep, not even bothered to play the most recent levels, and stopped caring about trying to three star them long ago.