The original Angry Birds game is set to disappear from the Google Play Store on Feb. 23 and is being renamed on the App Store.
Developer Rovio Entertainment is best known for developing Angry Birds, but now it wants everyone to forget about that first game and start playing its other (Angry Birds) titles instead.
In a tweet yesterday, Rovio announced that Rovio Classics: Angry Birds is set to be unlisted from the Google Play Store on Feb. 23. iPhone owners will still be able to play the game, but it won’t be called Angry Birds for much longer. Rovio is renaming it „Red’s First Flight“ in the App Store. If you already own the game, don’t worry, you can continue to play it.
Why would Rovio kill its golden goose, the game that made the company so successful in the first place? It seems that success is now working against the company’s other games, with the tweet explaining the decision to remove it from sale/rename it is „due to the game’s impact on our wider games portfolio.
