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Angry Bird fans can now take on a whole new batch of bad piggies -- but this latest game in the mobile franchise comes with a twist.
Rovio, the company behind the Angry Birds mobile games, announced the worldwide launch of Angry Birds Epic on Thursday. Unlike the slingshot-focused gameplay of most of the franchise's earlier games, Epic is a turn-based role-playing game.
As with other Angry Birds titles, the heroes in Epic are the birds and the antagonists are "the dastardly King Pig, his advisor Wiz Pig, and his son Price Porky." King pig and his gang have stolen the eggs, and its up to a cast of "feathery heroes" controlled by the user will help get them back.
Angry Birds Epic is available for free today in a wide range of mobile application stores, including Apple's App Store, Google Play, Amazon's Appstore, and the Windows Phone Store.
The mobile game is free to download, but it might not be long before gamers spend some real cash on the title. The game's currency of Lucky Coins are available as an in-game purchase. While it's not required to buy the coins to play the game, it does enhance your ability to get through the title. So far, all of the top in-app purchases for the iOS version of Epic are different quantities of Lucky Coins, with costs ranging from 99 cents to $50, according to Apple's App Store page.
Rovio has pursued a fast and furious expansion of the Angry Birds franchise. The original Angry Birds game launched on the iPhone in 2009, and Rovio revealed in April that the franchise has reached over 2 billion downloads. In addition to the standard Angry Birds title, Rovio has launched Angry Birds Seasons, Angry Birds Star Wars, Angry Birds Rio, Angry Birds Space, and Angry Birds Friends. The company also launched a kart-racing mobile game called Angry Birds Go.
Check out the trailer for Angry Birds Epic, and prepare yourself for battle against the infamous green piggies:
The Tesla Model S uses a propriety charging technology, which company CEO Elon Musk will open up for use by other automakers. Tesla Motors
In a move calculated to boost the electric vehicle industry, Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk announced the company would make all of its patented technology available for use by competitors. A blog post on Tesla Motors website offers Musk's reasons for the move.
Earlier this week, Musk made comments foreshadowing today's announcement.
In a press conference, Musk made it clear he was offering all of Tesla's patents, which amount to several hundred, up for use. He also vowed to make future patents available, which he claimed would ultimately reach the thousands.
Professing frustration with the current patent system, Musk outlined a sort of gentlemen's agreement between companies, vowing not to sue other automakers for using Tesla's patents, but expecting similar behavior from them.
Tesla's Supercharger technology, which can add 170 miles of range to the Model S in 30 minutes, is one area that Musk talked about for patent sharing. If other automakers built Supercharger capability into their electric cars, Musk said we would be "more than happy to have other manufacturers use Tesla's Supercharger network." However, he would also expect other manufacturers to build Supercharger stations, as Tesla has done.
Other automakers can choose from a variety of standards for fast charging, none of which has taken hold as a universal standard.
Another area where automakers might consider using Tesla's patents is in battery pack construction. Tesla's battery packs use multiple small cells, along with power control software to prevent thermal overruns. Tesla spent many years developing that part of its technology equation.
Boosting the electric car industry would mean more competition for Tesla, but Musk pointed out that electric car production is currently less than 1 percent of total production. He noted that if all cars produced today were electric, it would still take 20 years to replace the current fleet of fossil fuel-burning cars.