Rovio's avian slingshot puzzler gets an ad-supported release for Google handsets.
If you're an Android handset owner and worried that you're not wasting enough time catapulting birds at egg-stealing pigs, your luck is in. A full 150-level version of Angry Birds, the massively successful physics puzzler which has already dominated the lives of millions of iPhone, Palm and Nokia handset owners, is coming to Google phones.
The game is available for free, initially via the independent multi-format app market, GetJar, one of a growing number of rivals to the official Android Market ? a situation that Google CEO Eric Schmidt recently claimed to be a positive one for the platform. An Android Market release will follow, and both will be supported by ads, although an ad-free paid-for version is also set to be released later. You'll need a second generation Android device, with Android platform 1.6 or later. and support for OpenGL ES 2.0. Interest has been so great that the website of the game's developer Rovio, has buckled under the pressure and gone down.
Meanwhile, Rovio's iPhone publisher, Chillingo, has had a good week. Downloads of its latest iOS puzzler, Cut the Rope, have reached one million within ten days of launch. We recently recommended the title in our list of the ten best new iPad games.
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