Items tagged with Bad Piggies

by Paul Lilly - Wed, Oct 10, 2012

Bad Piggies Malware Chrome Plug-in Infects 80,000 Users

Over 82,000 Google Chrome users were duped into installing a malicious browser plug-in from the Chrome web store when what they thought they were downloading was a free copy of Bad Piggies, Rovio's latest title in the Angry Birds franchise. How could such a thing happen? A search in the Google Chrome web store for "Bad Piggies" turns up a handful of plug-ins masquerading as Rovio's latest title, and according to Barracuda Labs, they're all fronts for an ad injector that, once installed, will display additional advertisements in popular websites like Yahoo. "As of Oct. 2, 2012, there are about 82,593 Chrome users who installed these ads-injected plugins, and the total number is still climbing... Read more...

by Paul Lilly - Mon, Oct 01, 2012

Bad Piggies Take Flight, Will This Be Rovio's Next Smash Hit?

Rovio's wildly successful Angry Birds franchise needs no introduction. But Bad Piggies? That one needs some explaining. Looking to, um, piggyback on the success of Angry Birds, Bad Piggies is what Rovio hopes will be the company's next mega hit. While the main characters look familiar, don't expect the same type of game play. Your job in the Bad Piggies spinoff is to "create the ultimate flying machine and steer [the pigs] safely to their destination." The maps and 60 levels are different, the game play mechanics are different, and the objective is decidedly different. There's no slingshot, but what you will find are a bunch of pieces and parts that you must assemble in order to get the pigs... Read more...