The addictive video game “Angry Birds” will be migrating to television screens this summer.
The move is being made possible by Roku Inc., which will be adding Angry Birds to the menu of more than 250 entertainment options available through its set-top box for streaming video and music over high-speed Internet connections.
The Angry Birds game will come installed, free, on a new version of Roku’s streaming box that also will include a controller.
That means the owners of the more than 1 million Roku players that already have been sold in the past three years will have to buy the new model if they want to play.
It will be the first time that Angry Birds can be easily played on a big, high-definition TV screen. Since its release in late 2009, the game has been confined to smartphones, computer tablets and, recently, PCs.
