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Bad Piggies adds recording, sharing to iOS, more levels for everyone

Jessica Conditt — Thu, 09 May 2013 01:00:00 EST

The Rise and Swine update for Rovio's Bad Piggies adds 15 new levels and two fresh items, suction-cup tires and spring-loaded boxing gloves. The big, bad news in this update is the addition of a recording and sharing feature for iOS devices, allowing users to record moments on a whim and share to Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. The recording feature will come to Android later, Rovio says.

The Rise and Swine update also adds a new sandbox and the Road Hog Challenge. Rise and Swine is a free update, so get up and grab it now on your download service of choice. You know what they say - the early Bird gets Angry. We don't know what that has to do with Bad Piggies, but it's true regardless.

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This is a Bad Piggies interactive cookbook on iPad

Sinan Kubba — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 09:30:00 EST

Rovio has revealed and released an interactive Bad Piggies cookbook app, now available on iPad at 99 cents for a limited time. Titled Bad Piggies Best Egg Recipes, the app's regular price is $4.99. That's a significant leap from the promotional offer. However, compared to the $14.99 RRP of last year's physical version from which the app is adapted, it's a significant drop.

So, just in case you needed Angry Birds to invade some other part of your formerly Angry Birds-less culture, now there's an interactive cookbook. Although outside of sharing photos of your dishes on social media and setting an in-app egg timer, the interactivity is limited to pressing on the occasional illustration and seeing a brief animation. That's the same shtick early 90s CD-ROM games used, but at least it's better than just making a book digital.

The app contains 41 egg recipes, graded in difficulty, with simple step-by-step instructions. You may scoff, but when you consider how many people have downloaded the Angry Birds and Bad Piggies games, the potential success of this app really is no yolk. [You're in for a real beating over this line. - Ed.]

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Bad Piggies is Rovio's quickest selling #1 game, free content update coming soon

Jordan Mallory — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 11:30:00 EST

A Rovio-developed gaming reaching the number-one slot on the App Store isn't really all that surprising in this day in age, so the Finnish studio has instead started measuring how quickly its releases make it to the top of the pile.

Bad Piggies, the company's swine/inventor simulator and latest release, shattered previous records set by Angry Birds Space and Amazing Alex by reaching the pinnacle of Apple's App Store barely three hours after its launch on September 27.

Rovio has also announced that Bad Piggies' first free update -- "Flight Into The Night" -- will be released within "the next few weeks" and will contain more levels, unlockable content and "exciting plot twists," which we can only assume will be M. Night Shyamalanish in nature. "It was me," the piggie thought to himself. "I was the angry one all along."

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The secret Bad Piggies store in Rovio HQ

JC Fletcher — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 23:59:00 EST

Using some kind of projectile, Engadget burst through the wall of Rovio's headquarters in Espoo, Finland, where they found ... a complete Bad Piggies store mockup, showing what a pig-themed retail takeover would look like. This is what you'll see in your local stores within the week. All of them.

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Portabliss: Bad Piggies (iOS)

Mike Schramm — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 10:00:00 EST

This is Portabliss, a column about downloadable games that can be played on the go.

Angry Birds is iOS gaming's juggernaut; even now, it regularly tops the App Store charts in both money earned and time played. Rovio, the Finnish company who created Angry Birds, put together dozens of mobile games before its first iOS release, and has seemingly hesitated to release anything else after it. The studio doesn't want to cannibalize its own success, so all we've seen from Rovio since Angry Birds' 2009 iOS release is a series of rebrands (including Angry Birds Rio and Angry Birds Space), and one licensed remake of a sandbox contraption game called Amazing Alex.

Bad Piggies, then, is the first original title we've seen from Rovio in years, but even it doesn't go too far off the multibillion-dollar reservation. It's a game set in the Angry Birds universe, that follows the green pigs and their goal of grabbing eggs rather than the frustrated fowl trying to demolish them. But instead of unleashing furious destruction by catapult, Bad Piggies asks the player to create modular vehicles that will cart the pigs across a level, reaching a map piece goal at the end.

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Bad Piggies trailer shows just how naughty these pigs get

Jessica Conditt — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 22:30:00 EST

Bad Piggies retains the characteristic Angry Birds appeal, but has players build wacky rides to roll and fly across obstacle courses collecting stars. Despite its adorable design, we'll continue thinking of Bad Piggies as a prequel to thechineseroom's Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs. Bad, bad piggies.

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Bad Piggies is the 'complete opposite' of Angry Birds, here's how

Jessica Conditt — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 16:30:00 EST

Bad Piggies alters the expected Angry Birds formula, having players construct various contraptions and guide them through rickety levels, while collecting stars and demolishing crates of TNT. Bad Piggies, it turns out, takes more cues from Rovio's Amazing Alex than from its pop culture smash hit, Enraged Poultry (title paraphrased).

Players build flying, rolling, roaming contraptions using a grid system, and then set the naughty pigs free, attempting to "three-star" each level. Check out a gameplay video showing off this set-up on Y!Games, and if you're really into pig products (bacon included) read the Bad Piggies comic here.

Bad Piggies and Angry Birds are "complete opposites," Rovio EVP of Games Petri Järvilehto says. "Angry Birds smash things up, Bad Piggies build stuff. The pigs are all about making plans and building things, even - and especially - when they don't work!"

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The 'Bad Piggies' of Angry Birds get their own game on Sept. 27

JC Fletcher — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 10:21:00 EST

Wow, Rovio's next game is not an Angry Birds game - though, of course, it does take place within the deep Angry Birds Universe. Bad Piggies stars the hated pig spheres from Angry Birds, and features "all new, never-before-seen gameplay - and not a slingshot in sight!"

The teaser video doesn't show exactly what the new gameplay is, but we'll find out by September 27 at the latest, when Bad Piggies launches on iOS, Android, and Mac. Other versions coming afterward include Windows Phone, Windows 8 and PC. And though specific announcements haven't been made after those platforms, expect to see Bad Piggies in the plush toy, t-shirt, and fruit snack formats soon.

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'Bad Piggies' teased by Angry Birds dev on Facebook, Twitter

Alexander Sliwinski — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 14:30:00 EST

Angry Birds developer Rovio is teasing "Bad Piggies" across social media platforms Facebook and Twitter. Current speculation is that the green porcine will receive a spin-off game of some kind, but given that Rovio has to maintain the cash cow of the Angry Birds franchise, this could just boil down to simply more branding.

We flung a raven Rovio's way for a comment, but the company has yet to respond.

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