Angry Birds isn't slowing down. According to its creators, gamers are spending millions of hours per day engaging with the mobile gaming phenomenon.
Andrew Stalbow, Rovio's GM of North America, says that the various version of Angry Birds have been downloaded 400 million times. Thirty million people play the game on a daily basis, he announced at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. One hundred thirty million people play Angry Birds monthly.
The result? Gamers spend a whopping 300 million minutes playing Angry Birds daily. That's 109.5 billion minutes per year, or 1.825 billion hours.
Stalbow also revealed that China is the game's second largest and fastest growing market. The company recently released an update for the Chinese Moon Festival in an attempt to appeal to Chinese players. Rovio will soon release an update for Halloween that will introduce a secret, new bird (we know that it's yellow and looks a bit like a duck).
Several years ago, the company was working on games for publishers like EA. It was on the brink of collapse before it turned to social and mobile platform platforms. At one point, the company had nine employees, but now it has more than 170 employees worldwide.