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DreamWorks’ Turbo League Racing Game Downloaded 20M+ Times

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DreamWorks Animation’s Turbo Racing League game, has been downloaded more than 20 million times.

The racing game, built in conjunction with game development studio PikPok, stars a snail who got the power of super-speed after a freak accident.

The game is based on the movie Turbo, currently in theaters, and is available on iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, Android handsets and tablets, and Windows Phone 8.

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