Zynga’s line of Ville games (CityVille, FarmVille, and so on) are certainly among the most popular on Facebook. Later this year, there will be a new game that could topple them all, and one that will most certainly be demanding your attention from the ‘Game Requests’ inbox. Rovio has announced that it’s working on a Facebook version of the iOS phenomenon Angry Birds.
Speaking to Wired UK, Rovio’s Mikael Hed revealed that the Facebook version will feature “completely new aspects to it that just haven’t been experienced in any other platform.” In addition to that, the “collaborative nature” of Facebook will result in those dastardly pigs having “a more prominent role.”
There are much bigger plans for Angry Birds than simply releasing it on Facebook and consoles. “We are building our infrastructure with Angry Birds,” explained Rovio Might Eagle Peter Vesterbacka. “So we have the distribution, the marketing, everything in place, so that we can basically take any IP and drop it in. And we have the capability of producing the games on all the platforms — smartphone, consoles, PCs, Mac, online, Facebook — you name it. Then the TV, the movie side, it will happen when the time is right.”
