A tie-in to 20th Century Fox’s upcoming 3D toon Rio, Angry Birds Rio was the most downloaded game app in the U.K., France, Italy and Australia, among numerous other countries.

The release of Angry Birds Rio will mark a renewed assault on Google's platform for the franchise, just as total series downloads top 100 million. As well as serving up paid and ad-supported version ...

Angry Birds Rio will be available separately for Apple iOS devices. GeekWire co-founder Todd Bishop is a business and technology journalist who covers topics including Amazon, Microsoft, and startups.

Angry Birds downloaded 6.5M times on Christmas Day Millions more flock to Rovio's downloadable physics-based puzzle game during recent holiday; mobile app analytics firm declares 6.8M new iOS ...

More than anything, "Angry Birds Rio" doesn't feel like a slapped-together tie-in built solely for the sake of cashing in. The folks at Rovio have done some truly nice work polishing things up.

From what it sounds like, more (or enough) people may be playing the classic which does not have in-app purchases like Angry Birds 2, Journey, Blast, and Friends.