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Original Angry Birds Updated with New Egg Defender Mode

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Rovio has released a number of Angry Birds titles since its original game took off in 2009, but today its first Angry Birds game received a significant update that adds Bad Piggies gameplay in the form of a new Egg Defender mode.

In Egg Defender mode, players will use the Red Bird (who has been equipped with new powers) to fight off wave after wave of Bad Piggies. Egg Defender mode adds 15 new levels to the original game, along with 73 pig contraptions.

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The #1 app of all time gets a fun new update! You may be an expert pig popper, but how will you cope with a moving target? One bird stands between the egg and the advancing pig army in the all-new Red’s Mighty Feathers episode. The fearless Red Bird faces wave after wave of Bad Piggies in their crazy contraptions. But wait! He now has some magic feathers from the Mighty Eagle himself – giving Red incredible new powers as he darts toward those pesky pigs at incredible speed!

Fun new gameplay – the Egg Defender mode gives Red special powers to attack the advancing pigs!

15 new levels – the latest Red’s Mighty Feathers episode brings fresh new challenges!

73 crazy pig contraptions – wave after wave of Bad Piggies edging closer in their wacky machines!

Angry Birds is available for both the iPhone and the iPad for $0.99 and $2.99, respectively.

- Angry Birds for iPhone [Direct Link]
- Angry Birds HD for iPad [Direct Link]

Top Rated Comments

autrefois Avatar
172 months ago
Jumped. The. Shark.
Why is everyone so critical when there are Angry Birds articles? They still periodically put free updates in a 99-cent game that came out in 2009. (It's 2013 now.) And it's not one of those freemium games where you have to keep pouring money into it to actually advance, either.
Score: 15 Votes (Like | Disagree)
verniesgarden Avatar
172 months ago
this could be a really cool multi player game, "defend the castle, one player builds contraptions the other defends
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)
iThinkIt Avatar
172 months ago
make the games stop.... i have to play it all over again.... make it stop.....:D
Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)
bingeciren Avatar
172 months ago
Love the update, it's annoyingly hard and isn't helping my battery life!

It is really annoyingly hard. In fact so hard that I don't really enjoy playing it
any more. It pissed me off to no end that I quit at level 14. :mad:
Score: 1 Votes (Like | Disagree)
172 months ago
Jumped. The. Shark.

Not at all, don't be silly.
Score: 1 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Lancer Avatar
172 months ago
Love the update, it's annoyingly hard and isn't helping my battery life!
Score: 1 Votes (Like | Disagree)

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