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"Angry Birds Space will appear on the Windows Phone, developer Rovio has confirmed. The Finnish studio said that it is committed to bringing the &amp;quot;best possible experience&amp;quot; to all Angry Birds fans.  &amp;quot;We are working closely together with Nokia to bring our games to their platforms,&amp;quot; Rovio Chief Executive Mikael Hed told Reuters. &amp;quot;Our mutual goal is to bring the best possible experience to our fans, including all fans using Windows Phone devices.&amp;quot; It follows earlier reports that rewriting the app for &amp;quot;smaller platforms&amp;quot; such as the Windows Phone is too great an undertaking. &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;re the number one app in the Windows Phone app store, but it&amp;#039;s a big undertaking to support it, and you have to completely rewrite the application,&amp;quot; Rovio boss Peter Vesterbacka told Bloomberg. &amp;quot;If you look at activations, Apple&amp;#039;s iOS and Android are clearly bigger than any other platform. We want to be on all screens, but we have to consider the cost of supplying the smaller platforms. With Windows Phone, it&amp;#039;s a lot of work to technically support it.&amp;quot; Vesterbacka also revealed that he expects the franchise to hit one billion downloads within the next few months, a figure that could rise to two billion on the back of Angry Birds Space and the firm&amp;#039;s additional planned releases.  Angry Birds Space is available now to download for iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and Android devices, as well as Mac and PC. A retail copy for PC follows shortly.  It is available for free with adverts on iOS and Android devices, with an ad-free version costing 69p/$0.99. The game features 60 interstellar levels, with regular updates planned by Rovio. Gameplay remains the same as in previous Angry Birds games, but the new space setting enables players to use the gravity of nearby planets to set up shots. The blockbuster title also features six brand new birds, new superpowers and a whole galaxy to explore. The original Angry Birds has received more than 700 million downloads across all platforms. It was downloaded 6.5 million times on Christmas Day alone. Watch the Angry Birds Space launch trailer below:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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