Angry Birds 2 gets July 30 release date

Update, July 30: Angry Birds 2 is available to download from Google Play and the App Store now.

Rovio Entertainment announced more details of its Angry Birds 2 mobile game, including a release date of July 30.

The company said that the original Angry Birds and its various spinoff titles have generated more than 3 billion downloads since December 2009. The sequel is Rovio’s 52nd mobile game. Rovio created a total of 14 games based on Angry Birds and its characters, including Angry Birds Star Wars.

But the official sequel coming in a couple of weeks is the first that carries the Angry Birds 2 name.

“All of us here at Rovio can’t wait to show our fans what we’ve been cooking up! We’re super excited,” the company said in a blog post.

Angry Birds 2 logo
Angry Birds 2 logo

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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.