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Milestone for a mobile blockbuster: Angry Birds hits 1 billion downloads

Rovio announced today that Angry Birds has hit 1 billion downloads.

That’s a huge milestone for a game that didn’t exist as a brand until 2010. The downloads include all versions of Angry Birds, Angry Birds Seasons, Angry Birds Rio and the newly launched Angry Birds Space.

Here’s a video of what’s next from Rovio.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. 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.