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    Rovio's 'Bad Piggies' Has Gone Live

    By Todd Wasserman | Mashable – Thu, Sep 27, 2012

    Rovio Entertainment on Thursday unleashed its Angry Birds sequel, Bad Piggies on the world.

    The game, available on iTunes for $0.99 (iPhone version) and $2.99 (iPad version) and free on Google Play, is billed as "an all new game from the pigs' point of view."

    [More from Mashable: Pigs Will Fly in ‘Angry Birds’ Spin-Off]

    The release comes as Rovio battles the perception that the firm is a one-hit wonder, solely reliant on Angry Birds. However, the company's last non-avian title, Amazing Alex has so far failed to wow critics and fans.

    Since launching in 2009, Angry Birds has been downloaded more than 1 billion times, producing about $122.1 million in revenues for the company in 2011, about a third of which came from licensing and merchandising.

    [More from Mashable: NASA, ‘Angry Birds’ Team Up to Explore the Red Planet]

    This story originally published on Mashable here.

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