Angry Birds Week: Your essential guide to everything Angry Birds

With the release of Angry Birds Space just a few days away, now would be a good time to catch up on the phenomenon that is Angry Birds.

First released back in the waning months of 2009 under Chillingo's Clickgamer label, Angry Birds was initially met with warmth from critics such as Pocket Gamer for being a slick and well-made little physics-puzzler.

A few months later, the game exploded. Now you can't walk into a shop without seeing one of those Angry Birds plushies, get through a week without Peter "Mighty Eagle" Vesterbacka saying something ludicrously boastful, or open up the App Store without seeing another half-hearted attempt at dethroning the king.

If you're new to the series, or you're just a fan looking for a way to pass the time until Angry Birds Space comes out (midnight tomorrow, fact fans), we've got you covered.

Angry Birds Space news and info

If you haven't yet seen anything on the upcoming title, or just want to take another look at the types of space-based birds you can expect to be flinging come Thursday, take a walk through our vast selection of pre-release material.

Still not grabbed all the Golden Eggs or three-starred the previous three games? Then you'll be needing our exhaustive guides to the Angry Birds series.

Check back after Angry Birds Space is released for our definitive guide to that title, too.

Trick or Treat
Season's Greedings
Hogs and Kisses
Go Green Get Lucky
Easter Eggs
Summer Pignic
Mooncake Festival
Ham'o'ween
Year of the Dragon
Cherry Blossom
Wreck the Halls (Well, you have to have some surprises!)

Three-star video guides:
Smuggler's Den
Jungle Escape
Beach Volley
Carnival Upheaval
Airfield Chase
Smuggler's Plane

Golden fruit guides:
Smuggler's Den
Jungle Escape
Beach Volley
Carnival Upheaval
Airfield Chase
Smuggler's Plane

[Guides to the latest updates for Rio and Angry Birds released this week will be up shortly]

Features, opinons, and historical documents on Angry Birds

Angry Birds has been a bit of a goldmine in terms of great features. Ranging from exploring the franchise's history right through to how a level is made, these articles should keep you entertained as you refresh the App Store/Google Play.

From the very first game (that we reviewed back in 2009), right up to the Windows Phone and PlayBook releases of Angry Birds, we've been dealing with those furious avians for almost three years now.

Here's the complete selection of reviews. See if you can detect the growing exasperation as we realise that the differences between versions are actually so minor as to be almost insignificant.

Angry Birds Rio iPhone review
Angry Birds Rio Android review

What's next for Angry Birds?

Naturally, the rumour mill isn't going to just stop turning now that Angry Birds Space is arriving. There's plenty more in store for fans to look forward to if these rumours and reports are to be believed.