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The Queue: Leveling time, WoD system requirements, alpha, and the silent majority
Welcome back to The Queue, the daily Q&A column in which the WoW Insider team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Adam Holisky (@adamholisky) will be your host today. You know what I like? Bacon. Bacon is amazing. Someone should write a Queue about bacon... Larcener asked: Has there been any word as to the estimated amount of time it is going to take to level to 100 relative to the length of time it took to go from 85-90 in Mists? I understand it is 10 levels as opposed to only 5, however blizzard could adjust exp. so that 10 levels would take relatively the same amount of time. I personally wouldn't imagine that Blizzard would want to delay the start of end game significantly, and although you would have people still done quickly, I can't imagine that doubling the leveling time would be good for the majority of the player-base.
Rovio makes a Mighty Eagle's $68 million in profit in financial squawk
Rovio has announced that in 2011, it made a huge $106.3 million turnover and a whopping $67.6 million in profit (before tax), showing that flinging feathery fowl is a very serious business. Fueled by the success of Angry Birds, Seasons and Rio, the company grew by a factor of eight in the last year, from 28 employees all the way to 224. The company adds that the three games were downloaded 648 million times and are now used by 200 million daily users, while sales of merchandise contributed to around 30 percent of the total revenue. The report adds that the only barrier to future profits is if people stop buying new smartphones, but we're not sure that's likely to be the case for a while.
Pomplamoose covers the Angry Birds theme
I'm a big fan of Pomplamoose, the fun indie duo of musicians Jack Conte and Nataly Dawn that often posts song covers on YouTube, and I was happy to see that their latest cover is directly iPhone-related. They're apparently big fans of Angry Birds, and they've put together a "videosong" cover of the popular smartphone game's theme song. The cynical among you may be inspired to try and fight the cheer in the video on the next page (especially since the video seems to be promoted by some Samsung smartphone), but let's keep that to a minimum, shall we? It's cute. This definitely isn't my favorite Pomplamoose song, though. If you want to hear these guys doing something a little more original (and frankly, subtle), check out their great songs Centrifuge and Always in the Season. They're not theme songs to popular iOS games, obviously, but they are great tunes nevertheless.
Pomplamoose covers the Angry Birds theme, brings us joy
YouTube wonderband Pomplamoose has a habit for taking catchy pop hits and turning them into even catchier pop hits. Its latest opus, however, came right out of left field: Check out the duo's delightful rendition of the Angry Birds main theme after the jump!
The Queue: Little things
Welcome back to The Queue, WoW.com's daily Q&A column where the WoW.com team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Alex Ziebart will be your host today. I feel I've done one of these far too recently to do another one so quickly, but we're going to do another listening music day anyway. In yesterday's Blood Sport, Colby introduced me to Pomplamoose, a musical duo from Youtube. Considering most of my procrastination hours are spent on YouTube, I am amazed I've never heard of them before, but they are great. Plus the girl is way cute. She practically emits that kitty face emote when she talks. Seriously. So today's listening music is Pomplamoose's Little Things. Grumbly Stuff asked... "What's your (or anyone's, really) favorite proc or on-use effect for any piece of gear/weapon/trinket?"
