A recent post on the BBC’s Newsbeat blog indicated that “Angry Birds,” the wildly popular game played on Apple and Android smartphones, may be making the reverse leap from mobile to console gaming.
At a gaming conference in London last week, Peter Vester backa, the chief executive of Rovio, publisher of “Angry Birds,” said the company was working on versions of the game for Microsoft’s Xbox, Sony’s PlayStation 3 and Nintendo’s Wii.
The game, a destructive battle between noble, self-sacrificing birds and greedy pigs, has been a breakout hit in mobile gaming, having been downloaded more than 36 million times onto iPhones and Android devices.
“Angry Birds” has been praised for its simplicity (players slingshot birds into structures to knock them down and kill the pigs inside, which have stolen the birds’ eggs) as well as for its realism — objects react to the birds’ impact according to the laws of physics.
Vesterbacka said that console versions of the game should arrive in 2011. In the meantime, he said, the company is working on another version of the mobile game. “Angry Birds 2” may arrive for players this month.
