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Angry Birds iPhone game passes 6.5m sales milestone

Stuart Dredge
Angry Birds iPhone game passes 6.5m sales milestone

And Rovio's game has also racked up moer than 11 million downloads of its Lite version.

Hit iPhone game Angry Birds has now sold more than 6.5 million downloads on the App Store, according to developer Rovio.

The game, which was published by Chillingo, has only been available since December 2009.

What's more, the more expensive iPad version of the game, which sells for $4.99, has been bought more than 200,000 times.

Rovio has provided several more impressive stats in an interview with VentureBeat: The free Lite version of Angry Birds has been downloaded more than 11 million times; YouTube videos relating to the game have topped six million views; and more than 77% of players grab updates when they're made available.

The company will soon release Palm and Android versions of the game, with a version for Nokia handsets already available.

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"Our goal is to get to 100 million paid downloads," says Rovio's Vesterbacka.

Tags: rovio , angry birds