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The characters of Angry Birds, a smash-hit computer game, will now join the Star Wars films for a new chapter of the successful saga. The new game, that will somehow fuse of the worlds of Star Ward and Angry Birds, will be released on the 8th November and be available on iOS, Android and PC.

According to USA Today, the birds and pigs alike will take on the personalities of characters from the Star Wars Saga. "They are not Angry Birds dressed up as Star Wars characters, they are characters in their own right," Paul Southern, vice president of licensing and consumer products marketing for Lucasfilm Ltd told USA Today.

According to the same sources, Red Bird will be transformed into Luke Skywalker as an X-Wing pilot in Star Wars. Other birds will be transformed into Chewbacca, Princess Leia, Han Solo and Obi-Wan Kenobi and pigs will be transformed into Darth Vader, the stormtroopers and other representatives of the dark side of the Force.

Angry Birds, in which players use a slingshot to attack pigs that try to steal the birds' eggs, has been downloaded more than 650 million times since its 2009 launch and turned small Finnish gaming firm Rovio into an enterprise valued at up to $9 billion.