angry birds – Ewan Spence

Rovio reaches out to social media for Angry Brids levels as staff count is reduced

Posted on October 6, 2014October 6, 2014 by Ewan Spence

Let’s play join the dots. Firstly, Rovio costs 16% of the workforce, announced on October 2nd: Unfortunately, we also need to consider possible employee reductions of a maximum of 130 people in Finland (approximately 16% of workforce). Secondly, on October 4th Rovio launch a social media campaign asking the world to create new levels for their hit (only?) franchise Angry Birds Want to help design a level in the Number 1 app of all time? Want millions of people across the world play it? Well this is YOUR chance to�#MakeTheNextLevel! …Send us your ideas as sketches, paintings or photos by

Fragger, another throwing game for Symbian

Posted on July 24, 2011July 23, 2011 by Ewan Spence

It might have a lot of graphics and story panels behind it, but pull away the armour, and Fragger is another “throw things to kill things” game. It’s done extremely well, it’s challenging and has longevity built in. And one more important thing to remember as I review it. This is not Angry Birds.

…and then they came for the Angry Birds, and I didn’t speak out…

Posted on July 22, 2011July 22, 2011 by Ewan Spence

This is getting far too silly, can we stop the whole patent shakedowns now?

Angry Birds conquers another genre

Posted on July 16, 2011July 15, 2011 by Ewan Spence

Tell the world the angle you need to throw your Angry Bird at to pass the physics exam.

Step aside Doom, there’s a new standard in town

Posted on June 29, 2011June 29, 2011 by Ewan Spence

It used to be that you could tell when a computing platform had matured because ID Software’s first person shooter, Doom, was running on it – which led to silly things like it running on a Kodak DC290 digital camera. So we needed a new standard. Angry Birds is now running on Windows Phone and available in the Marketplace. We have our new standard.