Angry Birds Reloaded arrives on Apple Arcade this Friday, July 16

Angry Birds Reloaded Screenshot (Image credit: Rovio Entertainment)

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Angry Birds Reloaded is coming to Apple Arcade this Friday.
The game will have no in-app purchases or ads.

Apple Arcade is picking up another big name this week with Angry Birds Reloaded landing on the App Store this Friday, July 16.

Gamers will be able to enjoy Angry Birds Reloaded without the threat of ads or in-app purchases — one of the best aspects of Apple Arcade — and the game promises all of the birdy fun we've come to expect from these games.

The world's most famous flock has returned in a new version of the mobile game that took the world by storm. Join Red, Chuck, Bomb, Silver and the rest of the gang for classic slingshot action that will please fans of all ages. Angry Birds Reloaded features familiar physics-based gameplay from the original game - now remastered with visual enhancements, new characters and challenges, a new game mode, and plenty of destruction. King Pig and his minions have stolen the eggs again and the birds will stop at nothing to get them back! Life on the island will never be the same now that the Angry Birds must face off against both Pigs and Eagles from the Angry Birds movies in a battle to save their eggs and their home.

You can pre-register for Angry Birds Reloaded right now via the App Store. The game will be available on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV.

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Oliver Haslam has written about Apple and the wider technology business for more than a decade with bylines on How-To Geek, PC Mag, iDownloadBlog, and many more. He has also been published in print for Macworld, including cover stories. At iMore, Oliver is involved in daily news coverage and, not being short of opinions, has been known to 'explain' those thoughts in more detail, too.

Having grown up using PCs and spending far too much money on graphics card and flashy RAM, Oliver switched to the Mac with a G5 iMac and hasn't looked back. Since then he's seen the growth of the smartphone world, backed by iPhone, and new product categories come and go. Current expertise includes iOS, macOS, streaming services, and pretty much anything that has a battery or plugs into a wall. Oliver also covers mobile gaming for iMore, with Apple Arcade a particular focus. He's been gaming since the Atari 2600 days and still struggles to comprehend the fact he can play console quality titles on his pocket computer.