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Angry Birds are hitching a ride on airplanes

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Rovio Entertainment‘s Angry Birds are going airborne. Today the company announced a partnership with Global Eagle Entertainment to use the Angry Birds mobile-gaming franchise in inflight entertainment on airliners.

The deal shows that mobile games are just beginning to become really mobile. After all, how could anyone be deprived of their dose of Angry Birds just because they can’t use a smartphone on an airplane?

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.