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Angry Birds Christmas a free update for Halloween edition owners, out before December

Game Center update also inbound

Angry Birds Christmas a free update for Halloween edition owners, out before December

Since learning of the existence of Angry Birds Christmas we've speculated that it's going to cost 59p/99c. While this is still almost certainly true, for many Angry Birds fans it's not going to cost anything at all.

According the website of Finnish radio station YleX (where you can also see some new screenshots), Angry Birds Christmas will be a free update to Angry Birds Halloween. Rather than release a series of games, it seems Rovio plans to keep interest up by reskinning an existing game, Doodle Jump-style.

We won't have very long to wait for it, either, as it seems Angry Birds Christmas will be available before the first of December: “Yhtiön edustajien mukaan peli on ladattavissa iTunesin Apps Storesta viimeistään 1.12. “

Get all that? No, neither did we, and Google Translate has a very limited ability to render the Finnish language comprehensible to English eyes, so we owe this intelligence to tipster Mika Tolvanen.

Meanwhile over on Rovio's ever-active Twitter feed the developer reveals that it has indeed submitted an update to Apple, Game Center has been included, and that, "there are several new birds on the drawing board... "

Rob Hearn
Rob Hearn
Having obtained a distinguished education, Rob became Steel Media's managing editor, now he's no longer here though.