Angry Birds Space honor of the "New Horizons" Pluto mission. Mattel have made board games based on the game. These are called "Angry Birds In Space" and "Angry Birds Space: Planet Block Version". "Angry Birds Space: Planet Block Version" featured pigs with satellite helmets. The game has received generally favorable reviews with a Metacritic score of 83/100 based on 30 reviews. Justin Davis, writing for IGN, gave the game a score of 8.5/10, calling the pricing and physics disappointing but concluding that "neither issue detracts from the game's overall quality or fun factor." Harry Slater of "Pocket Gamer" thought the game was "as
Angry Birds (video game) team settled on a minimum set of requirements, even though that left nearly 30 types of Android phones unable to run the game, including some newly released phones. It was released on October 15, 2010. One month after the initial release on Android, Rovio Mobile began designing a lite version of the game for these other devices. In early 2010, Rovio began developing a version of "Angry Birds" for Facebook. The project became one of the company's largest, with development taking over a year. The company understood the challenges of transplanting a game concept between social platforms and mobile/gaming systems.