The Nokia Corporation
(NYSE:NOK) Lumia lineup of Windows Phone devices have ample reason to crow
lately. A new exclusive release featuring Rovio’s immensely popular Angry Birds
seems to be the reason. The app called Angry Birds Roost was announced sometime
in September and while it does not offer any actual gameplay, it does act as an
ideal center for the Angry Birds completist. Nokia has declared in May that it
would be investing in and co-developing with Rovio. This surely seems to be
interesting.
It would give users
direct access to the other Angry Birds games titles for purchase, apart from
videos, walkthroughs for the hard levels, secret Easter eggs, wallpapers,
reviews, news updates and much more. If a user is feeling that his life is
lacking in some Angry Birds-way, this is the app to make up for the deficiency
and it is free since it is essentially promotional!
The app may not seem to
be as exciting as the standalone Angry Birds game, but it is content from a
top-notch mobile development partner and is exclusive to Windows Phone and
Lumia smartphones in specific. The latter means a lot to Microsoft and its
flagship hardware partner in terms of optics. If Windows smartphones are
considered to be destinations for attractive software exclusives, it must lure
users theoretically. That is exactly what has driven a generation of console
exclusives in the video game industry and made some fans with hardcore devotion
to once platform or another. It is clearly a part of Microsoft and Nokia’s plan
for narrowing the perceived app gap between themselves and rivals like Google
and Apple.
The Angry Birds
franchise has topped 1 billion cumulative download mark earlier this year. The
fifth installment in the series, Angry Birds Star Wars is scheduled to release
on 8th November.
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