Tech Mania: Mattel to launch ‘Angry Birds’ board games in India plus 1 more articles

Mattel to launch ‘Angry Birds’ board games in India

Posted: 09 May 2011 06:18 AM PDT

Angry Birds, one of the most popular games on different platforms, will soon come out of the digital world into the real world when board games and t-shirts based on Angry Birds are launched in the Indian market.World’s largest toymaker Mattel will launch Angry Birds board games, while Dream Theatre, which owns merchandise rights for Superman and Batman as well, will introduce T-shirts, plush toys and accessories sporting Angry Birds logo and characters.

Mattel Toys India commercial director Karun Gera said

We are working on adapting Angry Birds into board games and skill action games.

Dream Theatre CEO Jiggy George said most of the Angry Bird merchandise will cost up to 500. “We would also look at launching some high-end merchandise,” he said.

Angry Birds, which was launched in 2009 by Finland-based Rovio Mobile on iPhone, has fast become a rage among gamers. It continues to be the largest paid application to be downloaded on iPhone in over 79 countries, including India. Mattel owns global rights to sell board games based on the Angry Birds.

I don’t know how these games will be but I am waiting for it.

Mattel to launch ‘Angry Birds’ board games in India is a post from: Tech Mania

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Infographic to show how PlayStation Network process got hacked

Posted: 09 May 2011 05:38 AM PDT

You already know about the news of Playstation network getting hacked few days back and the consequences due to it.Sony handed out some charts at one of its press conferences to explain how the gaming network was hacked, with giving info of the number of users from each region who's data may have been compromised.

According to the above diagram hackers made use of internet and injected comunication tool via a vulnerability in the application server and form a intrusion route to squeeze into the server.From their gained access to database by attacking the db server thereby leading to accessing account information of so many PSN accounts.Interestingly it appears the hack didn't originate from a jail broken PS3 as some had first thought, but a good ol' PC instead.

One more image to come out of the conferences shows a breakdown by region of the number of accounts compromised. While it doesn't really tell us anything new, it's still a scary visualization of the sheer number of accounts involved.

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Infographic to show how PlayStation Network process got hacked is a post from: Tech Mania