Rovio on Friday unveiled a new Angry Birds game, a partnership with 20th Century Fox known as "Angry Birds Rio."
The new game will be in app stores worldwide in March, Rovio announced via Twitter this afternoon. The game is being released in conjunction with the Fox movie "Rio," a cartoon that follows a macaw named Blu, who leaves his native Minnesota for Rio when he meets Jewel, the bird of his dreams; it will be in theaters starting April 15.
Rovio posted a 1:27-minute trailer (below) for "Angry Birds Rio" on YouTube.
It begins with the familiar birds being captured in their home turf and flown via helicopter to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. There, they are deposited in a dark cave, where a white macaw reveals that someone is offering $100,000 for the birds, which are dubbed an "exceptionally rare species." The birds are not going down without a fight, however, and manage to escape their cage - only to discover hundreds of other caged birds. Thus, the battle between the birds and macaws begins.
Recently, Rovio revealed that it has been working on an animated series. "We have been looking at that for quite a while, and that is definitely one of my personal big focus areas right now - to work on broadcast content for 'Angry Birds,'" said Rovio CEO Mikael Hed.
