Still, most free-to-play games won’t rack up 1 million downloads in 12 hours. By smashing that target Rovio has flipped the bird to all the naysayers that suggested the studio’s dwindling profits were ...

Well, Rovio took to Twitter to announce that Angry Birds 2 downloads surged past the one million mark in the first 12 hours, possibly because it’s free unlike the original Angry Birds.