First Angry Birds Toon Now Available to Watch

Rovio are gearing up for a feature animation adaptation of their popular Angry Birds franchise. In the meantime, the studio are stretching their animation legs with a series of new animated shorts.The first in the series, revolving around the game's yellow bird, Chuck, debuted over the weekend on all Angry Birds games. To watch it, head on over to any one of those games (they're free to download on Android) and click on the Toons button. Check out a sneak peak below.



I've checked the short out myself, and it's pretty fun. Obviously, it's no Looney Tunes (although that does seem to be the tone it's trying to strike), and it's clearly going to be more entertaining for kids than the rest of us. But there are a few laughs to be had, and the very short runtime means the limited story doesn't factor in - I'm still not sure how a feature film's going to work though. The second short debuts this weekend.

Seen the first short? Let us know what you thought of it below!

Temple Run: Brave Review - A Runaway Success For Disney and Imangi

A couple of weeks ago we reported that the recent string of pairing a popular mobile game with an upcoming animated movie was to continue with the mash-up of the immensely popular Temple Run and Pixar's latest feature film, Brave, with Temple Run: Brave.

Last year Disney released an original film tie-in game for Cars 2 (review here), a 2D platformer in the same vein as Halfbrick's Monster Dash. The game was a big commercial success, and I loved it on a critical level also - recent updates bringing new levels and more playable characters made it even better. But there's something about the familiarity of Temple Run: Brave, due to it being based on an existing property, that makes it that little bit more interesting.

Temple Run: Brave Coming Soon!

The pairing up of popular mobile game franchises with the latest animated releases continues. Last year we got Fruit Ninja: Puss in Boots, Angry Birds Rio and Doodle Jump Hop, as well as an original game for Pixar's Cars 2. Today we got news that Pixar are jumping on the bandwagon of pairing their latest release with a popular mobile game: the über popular Temple Run.

The very simplistic game makes the user swipe up to jump, swipe down to slide, and swipe left and right to turn, to avoid obstacles and sharp falls and survive for as long as possible. Temple Run: Brave looks (from the first look above) to expand on that gameplay, with the ability to shoot objects at the side for bonus points. The player controls Merida, the antagonist of Pixar's latest film, and must try and evade the demon bear, Mor'du, for as long as possible.

This looks like a great partnership for both parties, and seems set to be a great app!

Temple Run: Brave will be available on 14th June for iOS and Android devices.

Via Pixar Post and Pixar Tweets.