Rovio has announced the sixth episode of Angry Birds called Mine and Dine and has 15 new levels. It is available for iPhone/iPod touch, iPad and Android. Angry Birds is available for PC/laptop download for Windows.

“Angry Birds is back with a brand new underground episode: Mine and Dine! With a bottomless appetite, the bad piggies have burrowed deep in underground caverns to hide the eggs they stole from you,” say the developers.

Stages in this version of Angry Birds are quite difficult. With the help of Mighty Eagle you can instantly beat a level with a single tap. So if you get stuck in the game, you have a chance to purchase a can of sardines, which you use to lure out the elusive Mighty Eagle,” says the developer.

New Features in version 1.6.0:

• Mine and Dine: a new cave themed episode begins with 15 new levels!
• Find all the collectible jewels!
• Use hanging stalactites to pop those pesky burrowing piggies!
• Any particular levels stonewalling your progress? We tweaked a couple of them to spare you a few gray hairs!
• Mighty Eagle still in business: Buy once, unlimited use!

Here’s a gameplay video.

Download here for Android

Angry Birds

Download for iPhone

You can download Angry Birds game for PC/laptop that runs Windows OS. You can download the PC version here for $4.99

Alternatively, if you aren’t keen on buying it, then you can play it online. You can download and install Angry Birds on chrome and have fun!

We’ve heard a lot glitches and errors with Black Ops PC version and hence the PC version is getting patched.

According to the COD board member, here are the fixes that are updated and expected fixes in the next update.

LIVE FIXES

11/10
• - GameServers.com has bumped sv_maxrate to 25000 across all servers to reduce lag.
• - GameServers.com continues to improve official server distribution in various worldwide regions.

  11/11

• - Friends fix for join in progress and Friends tab in server browser.
• - Performance improvement for dual and quad core.
• - Improved connectivity with Black Ops Rcon tool.

IN PROGRESS

• - GPU hitching on certain graphics cards.
• - Incomplete server browser results.
• - Improvements to Quickmatch joins (results with better ping and reduced lag).
• - Zombies “The game session is no longer available” error.

Source: Call of Duty Board

The most anticipated game of all time, Call of Duty: Black Ops which was released earlier this week on November 9th, has racked up the sales record. Black Ops genereated more than $360m (£223m), confirmed the Activision Publisher.

In November 2009, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 sold 1.23 million units in the UK on its first day, but Black Ops racked up 14% more. Revenues generated by sales of Black Ops were 22% higher. A total 7 million units were estimatedly sold: 59% of total copies were sold on Xbox 360 whereas 36% and the reset were sold on PS3 and other platforms respectively. This is comparatively huge!

Activision announced in a press release that Black Ops is “the biggest entertainment launch in history”:

Shattering its own day-one sales record, Activision Publishing, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI) announced that Treyarch’s highly-anticipated Call of Duty®: Black Ops has become the biggest entertainment launch ever with an estimated sell-through of approximately $360 million in North America and the United Kingdom alone in the first 24 hours of its release, as compared to last year’s estimated day-one sell-through of $310 million for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare® 2 in North America and the United Kingdom, according to internal Activision estimates.

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