A month ago, developer Rovio began a celebration of the 10th anniversary of their flagship gaming series Angry Birds by sending out a Rage Rider scooter to a number of outlets to spread the message of turning anger into something positive. However, that was just one portion of what they were calling the “Bring the Anger" campaign, and in fact today, December 11th, is the actual exact day of the tenth anniversary of the original Angry Birds game releasing. Where does the time go!" So to celebrate this Rovio has released a very cool video looking back at the past ten years of Angry Birds, including the numerous games, movies, animation shorts, and merchandise. Oh the merchandise!

I’ll never forget the time I went to my dentist for the first time back in 2010 and when he asked what I did for a living I told him I ran a website for iPhone games and he instantly shouted “ANGRY BIRDS!" directly into my face. That is when I knew the enormous pop-culture phenomenon the game had become. It really does stand out as the mascot or the face of mobile gaming. The original Angry Birds game was the first mobile game ever to reach the one billion downloads mark, and the franchise as a whole has reached more than 4.5 billion downloads across all its games. Back when we posted about the Rage Riders last month, Rovio teased “a new public event" that they’d be unveiling in Time Square New York. Well that turned out to be the “Vent...