

Its popularity led to versions of Angry Birds being created for personal computers and gaming consoles, a market for merchandise featuring its characters and even long-term plans for a feature film or television series. It has since expanded to video game consoles and for PCs.Angry Birds has been praised for its successful combination of addictive gameplay, comical style, and low price.

Over 12 million copies of the game have been purchased from Apple's App Store, which has prompted the company to design versions for other touchscreen-based smartphones, including the Android, Symbian and Windows Phone operating systems. Inspired primarily by a sketch of stylized wingless birds, the first game was first released for Apple's iOS in December 2009. Angry Birds is a video game franchise created by Finnish computer game developer Rovio Entertainment.
