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Or Angry Birds. It only became a success after the devs got a publisher with contacts to Apple.

> "we went to Apple with Chillingo and said, 'We've got something here.'"

> On February 11, 2010, Apple agreed to feature Angry Birds on the front page of the UK App Store as game of the week. In preparation, Rovio made a YouTube trailer, only the second ever for an iPhone game, which has now had over 17 million views.

http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2011/04/features/how...




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