Angry Birds Fans around the world have so far played a total of 200,000 years of Angry Birds, with 300 million minutes of playing time daily. Moreover, more than 266 billion levels of Angry Birds have been played, with 400 billion birds launched into action, and over 44 one thousand million Stars collected in the process.

“This is a fantastic landmark accomplishment for us, and we’re extremely delighted to see such an incredible amount of people enjoying our games,” said Mikael Hed, CEO of Rovio. “We remain committed to creating more fun experiences and bringing exceptional quality to Angry Birds Fans everywhere.”

A worldwide gaming phenomenon, the Angry Birds gambling franchise consists of the games Angry Birds, Angry Birds Seasons and Angry Birds Rio. All games are available on major smartphone platforms, on Chrome web browser, and PC and Mac. Most recently, Angry Birds was announced for Nokia Asha 300 and 303 S40 feature phones – with this new category, Rovio will bring Angry Birds amusement to completely new emerging mobile markets.

Rovio is about to open the world’s first official Angry Birds retail shop in Helsinki. Angry Birds merchandise is a continuously growing business, and Rovio has already shipped more than 10 million Angry Birds toys worldwide. The company has also launched print publishing operations, and delivered the first Angry Birds books.

Earlier this year, Rovio acquired an animation studio based in Helsinki, Finland, and the company is moving forward with cartoon productions. Most recently, Rovio released an Angry Birds animation titled Ham’O’Ween as part of the Angry Birds Seasons Halloween celebration. Rovio Entertainment YouTube channel has netted over 200 million video recording views to appointment.

Following in the Zune’s footsteps, the new range of Windows Phones will also include Xbox Live documentation called the Games Hub with access to dedicated games, online content and all the sociable sides of the Xbox Live biotic community such as leader boards and gamer score cards. In the future, MS promise that gamers will be able to play crossing chopine i.e using a phone against an Xbox 360 in a future version of Forza Motorsport but for now all they could appearance us was acting simpleton biotic community games such as cards and puzzlers. Still impressive to think that you could swordplay your couple on your earphone piece they’re sate at home on their Xbox 360. The main port of the OS has also been presumption a huge inspection and repair with a home blind with multiple pages and tiles acting as shortcuts. It looks incredibly snazzy but we’ll reticence judgement till we’ve seen a gimmick running the OS.

Microsoft are keen to extend the Hub theme across multiple areas of the Windows Phone experience and so we also get a People Hub and Photo Hub. People Hub is a jazzed up variant of your contacts leaning which pulls in live updates from Facebook and Outlook (including visibility pictures and condition updates), aggregates multiple forms of contact and, topper of all, lets you post replies to Facebook comments from the contacts leaning, without having to launch a web varlet or Facebook app. Similarly, Photo Hub is your photograph drift lease you not only survey on the earphone but also tatter, upload and more.

This new level of usability has come at a monetary value as Microsoft do appear to be closing down some areas of customisation so features such as HTC’s TouchFlo 3D port will not be an choice on future releases. Regardless, HTC rich person committed themselves to the chopine and hope to launch at least single Windows Phone before the class is out. Keep your eyes on the web log for more information as and when we get it.

Look out Archos because Philips just introduced the GoGear Connect and this VoIP-enabled personal media role player is rocking Android 2.1 OS.

Philips has been a turn slow with the functionary specs, but the gimmick is expected to rich person Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Global Positioning System, a touchscreen with haptic feedback, a microSD one-armed bandit, DIVX/XVID support, a trackball for additional navigation and internal repositing that starts at 8 GB and goes up to 64 GB. VoIP calling volition be possible with an attached mike, and there’s no word yet on pricing or availability but reputation indicate it could hit by early summer.

As mentioned before, it volition tally Android 2.1 but Philips is crafting their own media-centric user port on circus tent. I’m not terribly familiar spirit with Philips’ software system chops, but we all know Android needs help with its media player. The video recording below shows off some of the new UI elements, and I’m hoping this gigantic version is just a paradigm to show off the port.

[Via Electronista, photograph via frAndroid]