“Mixed Reality” Update Coming to Angry Birds VR: Isle of Pigs on March 26

Those pesky pigs are at it again in Resolution Games’ award-winning title, Angry Birds VR: Isle of Pigs, a digitally immersive take on Rovio Entertainment’s much loved mobile games. This time, you can send the birds flying in mixed reality (MR)! The studio today announced that a substantial update will be coming to the game on March 26 to bring the feathered friends into a new spatial computing realm with its “MR mode” update for Meta Quest and Pico.

“There has been a lot of chatter lately in VR and spatial computing about the impact of mixed reality on the future of games,” said Paul Brady, president and co-founder of Resolution Games. “Being able to interact with and immerse yourself in the virtual worlds and characters of your favorite games mixed in with your living room environment is incredibly impactful and surreal. And, we couldn’t think of better characters to welcome into the realm of early mixed reality games than Red, Chuck, Bomb & the Blues.”

The “MR Mode” update will feature:

• Passthrough - Place scenes from Angry Birds VR: Isle of Pigs into your own real-world environment! With room mapping capabilities, players can manually move the level they are playing to a convenient location of their choosing whether it be floor, table or elsewhere, while falling objects - such as blocks, pigs, birds, etc. - can bounce off of and hit real world surfaces in your environment.
• Hand-tracking - Players will have the option to set their controllers aside and use their actual hands to hold the slingshot, fling birds, resize and rotate your playspace, and more.

The newest “MR mode” version of Angry Birds VR: Isle of Pigs was created with the latest generation of MR devices in mind, allowing Resolution Games to take advantage of room mapping and hand tracking as well as higher device performance that wasn’t accessible on the studio’s earlier mobile version of Angry Birds AR: Isle of Pigs that may come to mind when some players see this for the first time. The studio’s history with the game across Angry Birds VR: Isle of Pigs and Angry Birds AR: Isle of Pigs mixed with the fact that this is the studio’s seventh title to offer mixed reality/spatial computing capabilities (Demeo, Demeo Battles, Racket Club, Spatial Ops, Blaston and Game Room) marks an exciting milestone for the industry.

Angry Birds VR: Isle of Pigs is available to play for $19.99 across several platforms including Meta Quest Store, Pico, PlayStation VR2 and Steam, and the “MR mode” update will be available for free to owners on Meta Quest and Pico.

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About Resolution Games:
Resolution Games is redefining how people come together and play, evolving the craft of multiplayer game development and publishing with its approach to delivering new games across existing and emerging platforms, from PC to XR. The studio’s titles rank among the top-rated and most downloaded games in the space. Games like Demeo, Game Room, Racket Club, Ultimechs, Blaston, Bait!, Acron: Attack of the Squirrels! and Cook-Out: A Sandwich Tale illustrate the innovative and immersive ways the studio is constantly pushing the boundaries of what is possible.

Founded in 2015, Resolution Games is privately held and based in Stockholm, Sweden, with offices in Austin, Texas and Linköping, Sweden. For more information please visit www.resolutiongames.com.

About Rovio:
Rovio Entertainment Corporation is a global mobile-first games company that creates, develops and
publishes mobile games, which have been downloaded over 5 billion times. Rovio is best known for the global Angry Birds brand, which started as a popular mobile game in 2009, and has since evolved from games to various entertainment, animations and consumer products in brand licensing. Rovio has produced The Angry Birds Movie (2016), and its sequel, The Angry Birds Movie 2 was released in 2019. The company offers multiple mobile games and has seven game studios – one in Espoo (Finland), Stockholm (Sweden), Copenhagen (Denmark), Barcelona (Spain), Montreal and Toronto (Canada), as well as a subsidiary in Izmir (Turkey) called Ruby Games. Most of the employees are based in Finland where Rovio is headquartered. In 2023, SEGA® Europe Limited acquired more than 90 percent of Rovio’s issued and outstanding shares, making Rovio a subsidiary of SEGA.

Contact Information

Jamie Camargo

Director of PR

Resolution Games

press@resolutiongames.com