Rovio Teases New Angry Birds Star Wars

Rovio teased a big announcement for July 15, hinting that a new version of the popular 'Angry Birds' game could be coming.
By Chris Ciaccia ,

These aren't the droids you're looking for.

-- Obi-Wan Kenobi,

Star Wars

NEW YORK (

TheStreet

) -- Finnish game maker

Rovio

has teased that a new version of its popular

Angry Birds

game will be coming next week. The company wrote a

blog post

announcing that big news would be coming July 15. "Attention, Angry Birds fans! Stay tuned on Monday, July 15th, for big news about a brand new game! We're talking the biggest character line-up ever, awesome new powers, and maybe even a few surprises," the company wrote on the blog.

In the picture above, it looks as if the game will have a

Star Wars

take, which the company has done in the past to drive continued interest.

Walt Disney

(DIS) - Get Report

recently purchased

LucasFilms

for $4 billion, and subsequently announced three new

Star Wars

movies, Episodes 7, 8, and 9, with Episode 7 scheduled for a summer 2015 release and the subsequent movies in the series to be released every two years. Rovio, for all the branding it has done of its

Angry Birds

franchise (video games, t-shirts, merchandise), has been compared to Disney in the past.

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Written by Chris Ciaccia in New York

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