Crikey.
That's an order of magnitude more than has been spent on building Wikipedia since its inception. In just one year.
I don't begrudge the creative team here their success, or the folks who played it their enjoyment, or even begin to think that, if only folks weren't playing Angry Birds they would be doing something socially constructive (proof: they didn't before Angry Birds).
But, imagine if that effort could be turned to something socially constructive.
Oh, yeah, the article has some interesting notes about why the game has been so successful, from a user experience analysis standpoint. Interesting. #ddtb
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Why Angry Birds is so successful and popular: a cognitive teardown of the user experience
Analysis and Commentary on High Technology User Experience Research and Design