据venturebeat报道，手机游戏《愤怒的小鸟》（Angry Birds）日前又再度扩张了势力范围，投放到了英特尔应用商店AppUp，这样所有运行英特尔芯片的用户就可以在上网本、笔记本电脑上体验这款热门游戏。

Intel AppUp

AppUp是在2010年九月的英特尔开发者大会上正式面世，已有45万左右的用户和2万3千名左右的程序员，但比起苹果App Store、谷歌Android Market这两大应用商店，AppUp的规模实在是微不足道。

现在AppUp有了《愤怒的小鸟》这款2010年超人气手机游戏的助阵，也许能为该应用商店多赚点吆喝。据游戏邦了解，《愤怒的小鸟》在App Store发行头10个月，就创造了650万次的下载量，在向其他平台进军时，还一度导致独立应用商店GetJar因断货而不得不暂停供应这款游戏的Android版本。另外，这款游戏每隔三四周都会推出含有新关卡的升级版本，超过77%的玩家会及时更新游戏版本。

据英特尔所称，这款投放到AppUp的游戏还能通过高清电视播放。

虽然AppUp的应用开发者数量已经颇有可观，英特尔还推出了一些促进应用开发的鼓励政策，但游戏邦认为，一个全新的发行渠道引进一款最抢手的应用产品，并不一定能让该应用商店走向成功。其他应用商店在与App Store的角力中若要占据更多优势，最关键的还是要有一些出色的产品和与众不同的运营理念。（本文为游戏邦/gamerboom.com编译，转载请注明来源：游戏邦）

Intel’s netbook app store finally gets a blockbuster with Angry Birds

After charming mobile gamers with its crazy concept and sharp physics engine, Angry Birds is flying over to Intel’s AppUp app store, which offers software downloads for devices running on Intel’s chips.

The AppUp store launched in at the Intel Developer’s Forum in September. It took off pretty quickly and had around 450,000 users and 23,000 program members when it launched. But it has, for the most part, sat in the shadows of Apple’s App Store for iPhones, iPod Touches and iPads, and the Android Market for devices running Google’s mobile operating system.

Now it has one of the most popular mobile games of 2010. In Angry Birds, players take control of a batch of birds and fling them with a slingshot across the screen to blow up pigs and their fortresses. The gameplay is pretty simple and quite addictive. So much so that the game broke all of the records on the Apple App Store in its first 10 months after release, selling more than 6.5 million copies.

Angry Birds made its way over to other smartphones and the iPad, where it also saw a rather absurd amount of success — forcing independent app marketplace GetJar to shut down temporarily due to demand for the Android version. More than 77 percent of Angry Birds players update the game as new levels become available. New updates with new levels come out every three or four weeks.

The game is supposed to run on any computer using an Intel chip — including netbooks and typical notebook computers. It expands to support the resolution of each device, and can be streamed out to an HD television at 1080p, according to Intel.

Either way, this should give Intel’s app store a little bit of a boost. The AppUp store has a good number of developers, and Intel also offers some incentives for developing top-of-the-line apps. But porting insanely popular applications over to a new app distribution channel isn’t necessarily the secret to success. Winning the App Store game isn’t necessarily a numbers game —it’s about having access to good applications and some great exclusives.（source:venturebeat）