

Hello! You there, pause the Angry Birds for one second, for we have exciting news about the Superbo—no, seriously! Please continue paying attention. A commercial for the children’s movie Rio that will air during Sunday’s game will include a code that “will direct users to a special new level of Angry Birds, the wildly popular game, which, in turn, will lead to a Rio sweepstakes,” The Wall Street Journal reports. It’s smart marketing, as Angry Birds devotees are, using The New York Times’s culture section as a metric, America’s largest demographic.In other big news about the big game, the Associated Press reveals that Slash, star of the popular VH1 show Behind the Music: Guns N’ Roses, and Usher will join the Black Eyed Peas for the group’s halftime performance. The collaboration was supposed to be a secret! Might we suggest that Slash, Usher, and the Black Eyed Peas make some sort of unexpected announcement about Angry Birds as consolation for the ruined surprise?