Launching worldwide on November 8, the unique partnership will combine all the fun of the classic Angry Birds and Angry Birds Space with the characters, stories and settings of the epic space fantasy, Star Wars.
Rovio has over 1 billion views on its YouTube channel today, including shorts tied to Angry Birds Seasons, Angry Birds Space and videos of Star Wars Angry Birds.
Electronic Arts said that its in-house game teams DICE (Battlefield) and Visceral (Dead Space) will work on Star Wars titles, in addition to BioWare, the team behind EA's existing Star Wars MMO The Old Republic.
Episode II and III deliver such captivating locales as the gleaming clone hatcheries of rain-swept Kamino, and the fiery lava planet of Mustafar as well as spectacular action sequences like Yoda's unforgettable debut as a lightsaber duelist, the explosive space and ground battles of the Clone Wars, and the dramatic showdown between Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker.
Multibillion-dollar budgets have parked people in space, allowed global telecommunications and brought Star Wars military systems within reach.
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Will it be able to compete with other science fiction third-person shooters like Dead Space and Mass Effect or the upcoming Star Wars: 1313?
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The first three Star Wars films, The Shining, and 2001: A Space Odyssey were made at the studios, and the exhibition features replicas of the Darth Vader, C3P0 and R2D2 costumes.
If China, Russia or anyone else for that matter launched a Mars rover and we were watching robot wars millions of miles away, we'd be in space heaven.
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LeParmentier's brief Star Wars appearance saw his character extol the virtues of the Empire's Death Star space station and pour scorn on Vader's "sad devotion to that ancient Jedi religion".
The Great Depression and two World Wars shook the continent to its core, and rapid industrialisation and urbanisation saw the need for space in cities at a premium.
While certain military interests have pushed for anti-satellite weapons since the Cold War, concern over the space junk that destroyed sats would create has kept the international community from serious pursuit of any "Star Wars"-like programs.
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