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The latest craze in time-wasting has been the free gaming app, Angry Birds. The game centers around different “angry birds” who seek revenge on smirking, snorting pigs who have stolen the birds’ eggs. The game has already experienced more than 50 million free and paid downloads, and it’s rumored that the company behind the game, Rovio, earns more than $1 million a month in advertising revenue from the ads in the game’s free versions.

The “big” news for Angry Birds, however, is that Rovio has plans to soon release a “mini” title for PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable owners. The “mini” games are ones small enough to download directly to your gaming console or equipment instead of needing their own cartridges or discs.

Also being planned by Rovio are releases for Xbox 360 and the Nintendo Wii. This means that Angry Birds will soon be available for your home “big screen” and can be played as quickly as you can raise your TV out of your TV lift cabinet. No more will you have to squint

The latest craze in time-wasting has been the free gaming app, Angry Birds. The game centers around different “angry birds” who seek revenge on smirking, snorting pigs who have stolen the birds’ eggs. The game has already experienced more than 50 million free and paid downloads, and it’s rumored that the company behind the game, Rovio, earns more than $1 million a month in advertising revenue from the ads in the game’s free versions.

The “big” news for Angry Birds, however, is that Rovio has plans to soon release a “mini” title for PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable owners. The “mini” games are ones small enough to download directly to your gaming console or equipment instead of needing their own cartridges or discs.

Also being planned by Rovio are releases for Xbox 360 and the Nintendo Wii. This means that Angry Birds will soon be available for your home “big screen” and can be played as quickly as you can raise your TV out of your TV lift cabinet. No more will you have to squint

Microsoft’s Kinect, an extension for Xbox 360 gaming consoles that brings games to life by body movement, needing no controllers, wires or gadgets, just announced that it has sold more than one million units during the first 10 days of its release. This absolutely blows away its competition, the Sony Move for PlayStation3, which hasn’t sold a million units yet, and it has been on the market since September.

So what makes the Kinect such a hot commodity? It may have something to its futuristic capabilities to translate one’s body movements, even the sound of your voice, into digital movements. Want to drive a race car? Just grab an imaginary steering wheel and go for it. It’s the new wave of full body gaming, and it may charge in a new era of integrating gaming consoles into a majority of people’s households.

Of course, some of the Kinect’s fandom may be due to Oprah publicly embracing it on her show in October. Oprah, along with a few of her audience members, danced away to the Dance Central

Microsoft’s Kinect, an extension for Xbox 360 gaming consoles that brings games to life by body movement, needing no controllers, wires or gadgets, just announced that it has sold more than one million units during the first 10 days of its release. This absolutely blows away its competition, the Sony Move for PlayStation3, which hasn’t sold a million units yet, and it has been on the market since September.

So what makes the Kinect such a hot commodity? It may have something to its futuristic capabilities to translate one’s body movements, even the sound of your voice, into digital movements. Want to drive a race car? Just grab an imaginary steering wheel and go for it. It’s the new wave of full body gaming, and it may charge in a new era of integrating gaming consoles into a majority of people’s households.

Of course, some of the Kinect’s fandom may be due to Oprah publicly embracing it on her show in October. Oprah, along with a few of her audience members, danced away to the Dance Central