The smash-hit video game Angry Birds can now be played on the Windows operating system. Game developer Rovio announced that the popular game Angry Birds can be downloaded and played for $4.95 for any version of Windows newer than Windows XP with SP2. A free demo version is also available for download.
Two versions of Angry Birds - the original and Angry Birds Rio - are available on Windows.
In addition, TV set-top box manufacturer Roku announced that video games would be coming to the Roku set-top boxes through a video game channel called the Roku Channel Store. And of course, one of the video games would be Angry Birds, which will come in three flavors for Roku - the original, Angry Birds Rio and Angry Birds Seasons.
First released in December 2009 for Apple’s iPhone platform, Angry Birds has become an unexpected smash hit and a cultural phenomenon. Game developer Rovio Mobile, based in Espoo, Finland, says the game has been downloaded over 200 million times. The company, founded by three students at the Helsinki University of Technology, recently raised $42 million in VC funding from several investors.
Since its launch less than two years ago, the game’s popularity has prompted Rovio to port it to all other major mobile platforms, including Android, Symbian and N900 (for Nokia phones) and Palm webOS (for HP/Palm phones). The company also recently created a Angry Birds game plugin for Google’s Chrome browser that can be played from the browser and can be downloaded from the Chrome Web Store. A Mac OS X version of the game is reported to be releasing later this year.
