Rovio Teases December 11 Launch for 'Angry Birds Go!' Racing Game with New Gameplay Video

[MacRumors]

Rovio today released an official gameplay video for its upcoming kart racing game Angry Birds Go!, revealing that the title will be launching on December 11. Angry Birds Go! was first teased back in June, with additional information having been released in August.

Angry Birds Go! includes many of the usual bird and pig characters from the Angry Birds series participating in a downhill kart racing game with a number of different tracks, kart upgrades, and power-ups. The app will be free-to-play, although some of the upgrades and other content will likely be included as in-app purchase content. Angry Birds Go! will also include support for "Telepods", interactive toys from Hasbro that debuted for the recent Angry Birds Star Wars II launch.

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[Godzilla71]

Up next Rovio will announce the Angry Birds endless runner.

 

[cg399]

With an MFi controller and airplay you've got Mario Kart!

Count me in!

 

[NameUndecided]

Yessssssirrrrrrrr. This looks so fun.

 

[Aucun Express]

I wonder for how long Rovio will continue to milk Angry Birds.
But I admit that it looks fun.

 

[street.cory]

I'd rather pay $9.99 for an iOS game with unlockable content than a free game with purchasable/unlockable content.

 

[a0me]

I wonder for how long Rovio will continue to milk Angry Birds.
But I admit that it looks fun.

You could say the same about Nintendo. How long will they continue to milk Mario? He's been in over 200 games!

 

[shnapsi]

Looks like the birds are not angry any more (based on the poster and logo)

 

[B4U]

Looks exactly alike to the Game Cube version of Mario Kart......that is not really a compliment though.

 

[ritmomundo]

You could say the same about Nintendo. How long will they continue to milk Mario? He's been in over 200 games!

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It's not quite the same. Mario and Nintendo go hand in hand, like Mickey Mouse and Disney. It's not the same with Angry Birds.

 

[GenesisST]

You could say the same about Nintendo. How long will they continue to milk Mario? He's been in over 200 games!

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My son started watching that horrible Mario show from the 80s/90s on Netflix... Über crap!

The Angry Birds cartoons look entertaining, although I didn't watch them...

 

[Brittany246]

I wish Angry Birds would just die already.

 

[KALLT]

It's not quite the same. Mario and Nintendo go hand in hand, like Mickey Mouse and Disney. It's not the same with Angry Birds.

I cannot follow, to me it is exactly the same thing. Angry Birds has become the Mario for Rovio, its iconic flagship franchise.

 

[Reason077]

Mario Kart clone.

Looks pretty good, though. Better than Sega's lame iOS racing game.

 

[CKA]

I'd rather pay $9.99 for an iOS game with unlockable content than a free game with purchasable/unlockable content.

Concur.

 

[ritmomundo]

I cannot follow, to me it is exactly the same thing. Angry Birds has become the Mario for Rovio, its iconic flagship franchise.

Not really. Nintendo makes the hardware and Mario is it's exclusive brainchild. It's like Apple and OS X. Rovio is just a third party dev, and Angry Birds is like a cancer in gaming technology (it has infiltrated every gaming platform). I don't have anything against Angry Birds. I bought the new Star Wars one myself. I'm just saying there's nothing special or exclusive about it anymore because it's everywhere. It's more comparable to Ubisoft and Assassins Creed.

 

[rumz]

All I want to know is whether it's multiplayer. If it is, I'm sold. (Being not much of a game player these days.

The appeal is that I know enough people that have iPhones that this could be a lot of fun.

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Not really. Nintendo makes the hardware and Mario is it's exclusive brainchild. It's like Apple and OS X. Rovio is just a third party dev, and Angry Birds is like a cancer in gaming technology (it has infiltrated every gaming platform). I don't have anything against Angry Birds. I bought the new Star Wars one myself. I'm just saying there's nothing special or exclusive about it anymore because it's everywhere. It's more comparable to Ubisoft and Assassins Creed.

Perhaps it's somewhere in-between. I say this based on how successfully Angry Birds has been merchandized. T-shirts, backpacks, toys, etc. Definitely in a different category than Assasins Creed, even if not a truly analogous to Mario and Nintendo.

 

[martygras9]

Looks like the birds are not angry any more (based on the poster and logo)

How can they be angry? Look how much money they're making.

 

[iSRS]

Up next Rovio will announce the Angry Birds endless runner.

I am hoping for Angry Birds Party!

I wonder for how long Rovio will continue to milk Angry Birds.
But I admit that it looks fun.

It's not quite the same. Mario and Nintendo go hand in hand, like Mickey Mouse and Disney. It's not the same with Angry Birds.

I think it is the same. There is a void on the iOS and smartphone/tablet market that Nintendo could fill and destroy everyone with, but they are protecting their hardware branch. For now, that makes sense. In the future, that could change and they could determine just being a software firm will suit them best. But in the interim, someone could fill that void. Rovio has proven themselves to have a viable franchise. So no problem with them trying to fill that void. They are also not going to do just a port from another platform. They are going to take full advantage of the touch screen/accelerometer/gyroscope technology.

Will be fun to see where this goes.

 

[KALLT]

Not really. Nintendo makes the hardware and Mario is it's exclusive brainchild. It's like Apple and OS X. Rovio is just a third party dev, and Angry Birds is like a cancer in gaming technology (it has infiltrated every gaming platform). I don't have anything against Angry Birds. I bought the new Star Wars one myself. I'm just saying there's nothing special or exclusive about it anymore because it's everywhere. It's more comparable to Ubisoft and Assassins Creed.

The initial analogy was related to the 'milking' of Angry Birds, just as Super Mario is milked by Nintendo or Micky Mouse by Disney. All of them started of as successful products, game and cartoon respectively, and have become successful franchises for a variety of products and platforms, including merchandise. Angry Birds could become a very similar thing at some point. What this has to do with cross-compatibility, I don't understand.