'Twas a very merry Angry Birds Christmas, with 6.5 million downloads

![][1] You could also say that a lot of folks scored some sweet gadgets this holiday season. Finnish game maker [Rovio][2] told [AllThingsD][3] that its ubiquitous Angry Birds game had been downloaded 6.5 million times on Christmas Day. (The website points out that this is nearly the estimated amount of smartphones activated over the holiday.) Yup, Angry Birds is _still cool_.

"We're really excited to have such a massive number of new people get acquainted with Angry Birds over the holidays--we have exciting new releases lined up for 2012, and can't wait to introduce them to the public," Rovio's Ville Heijari told AllThingsD. The 6.5 million mark combines all paid and free downloads of the three Angry Birds games, and across all platforms, we imagine.

According to AllThingsD, this more than triples Angry Birds' downloads for Christmas 2010. Surely, that's helped by an extra Angry Birds release, but we bet there are a number of reasons why the game's downloads skyrocketed this Christmas. Between air time on several commercials, their visages on every damned t-shirt in Hot Topic and appearances at [major cultural events][4], Angry Birds exposure hit a fever pitch in 2011.

We're also wiling to bet that this is far from the end for the irate avian creatures. More, unique Angry Birds games are reportedly [in the works for 2012][5], and we're still a ways off from [that feature film][6]. So, don't expect these furious, flightless (sort of) foul to go away anytime soon.

[Via [VentureBeat][7]]

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