Angry Birds for Halloween

Why, yes, you can overmerchandise something.

A Psychiatrist Tries to Understand Angry Birds

Okay, this is my absolutely last Angry Birds post for this week. Dr. Dinah Miller is trying to figure out why people are hooked on this game. Help her out. While you're at it, maybe you could give me a clue. I liked Angry Birds fine when it was called Crush the Castle, and I like the art, but I've just never spent all that much time with it.

These Birds Aren't Angry, Just Mad

Sorry for the light posting, folks, but my publisher moved up the print date for the Games 100, and there hasn't been much time left over for the blog.

In the meantime, I leave you with the surest sign that Angry Birds have entered the pop culture pantheon: a MAD magazine cover.

The full cover is here (mild language warning). 

Playing With Your Food

I'm not really that big a fan of Angry Birds, but I love how it's creeping into so many corners of society. Here's a guy who made a playable--yet wholly edible--Angry Birds birthday cake.



And here are the instructions for how to make your own.

h/t: My wife.

Angry Lego Birds

Now that those Angry Birds have their own plush toy line and TV show, it was about time for them to become immortalized in the Art Medium of Choice here at SOP. Lego craftsman Tsang Yiu Keung has created this fab set of Angry Bird sculptures, including slingshot and pigs, all from little bricks.

In other AB news, former Vice President Dick Cheney had this to say: "My three-year-old grandson was teaching me how to use an iPad the other day. To play games. 'Angry Birds' or something like that."