Oh yeah, by the way: we can see what’s going on on bloody Mars! If, like us, you’re still having trouble getting your head around the awesomeness of NASA’s Curiosity mission, you’ll be keen to lap up anything to do with it. How’s about some Mars-themed Angry Birds levels and a few hidden bonuses? Read more
Well here’s a turn up for the books. When you’re looking at what is predominantly a two horse race, who comes third doesn’t often matter – but that’s not really the case when you’re talking mobile platforms. Case in point? Rovio has made the controversial decision to launch Angry Birds Space on the BlackBerry PlayBook before Windows Phone. Is it another sign of Microsoft’s platform struggling to gain momentum? Read more
Angry Birds Space. You may have caught whiff of it over the last week – it’s been making headlines on just about every tech site going, Electricpig being no different. Now Rovio’s released numbers to show how that media attention’s paid off. The numbers are huge. Read more
Angry Birds Space, the fourth game in Rovio’s hit franchise, launched on iPhone, Android, PC and Mac yesterday, but another platform was conspicuously missing from the list: Windows Phone.
That doesn’t look likely to change either with Rovio boss Peter Vetserbacka telling Bloomberg that it has no plans to port Angry Birds Space to Windows Phone.
“We want to be on all screens, but we have to consider the cost of supplying the smaller platforms. With Windows Phone it’s a lot of work to technically support it.”
The company has since retracted that statement, and announced plans for a port, but regardless, that’s an unfortunate message for a giant of mobile gaming to send out – especially when Rovio is one of the few companies making large sums of money from the Windows Phone Marketplace.
Angry Birds Space, the latest instalment in Rovio’s astronomically successful mobile game series, is now available on Android and iPhone.
