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Angry Birds On Facebook This Valentine's Day

The Angry Birds series is finally set to arrive on Facebook, with Rovio planning to introduce the games to the world’s most popular social network on Valentine’s Day, February 14.

According to TheNextWeb the Finnish company is planning to introduce the blockbuster title in the ‘capital of Facebook’. That’s Indonesian capital Jakarta, which has 17 million registered Facebook users, more than any other city in the world.

Angry Bird franchise is just towards one billion unique downloads, a figure that it is just 300 million short of at this point.

The company is also linking up with Samsung for its smart TVs and, Asia being Asia, Rovio is targeting non-smartphones users as well, and is teaming with Nokia to release the game on its Asha devices.

Rovio is banking on monetising the in-game purchases, and the company is exploiting this possibility with the introduction of ‘power-ups’ within the Facebook game. The add-ons, which include items like stronger birds, will cost $0.99 and help further monetise the franchise.

[ via - TheNextWeb ]