'Angry Birds,' 'Angry Birds Space,' 'Fruit Ninja' coming to Windows 8

New Delhi: Popular games from Rovio Entertainment - "Angry Birds" and "Angry Birds Space" - will be available for Microsoft's upcoming Windows 8 OS when it ships on October 26 this year. Besides, the company announced the first wave of Xbox games for its highly-awaited Windows 8 OS.

The fruit-slicing game "Fruit Ninja" from Halfbrick Studios is another popular game that will be available at the time of the Windows 8 release.

Microsoft announced 40 games, out of which 29 games are from Microsoft Studios. Some of the games also work on the Xbox console. "Xbox is also announcing support from Rovio, Miniclip, Gameloft, ZeptoLab, Glu Mobile, Halfbrick Studios who are also bringing Xbox games to Windows 8 in this first wave," said Microsoft in a Windows Team blog post.

Here is the full list of games that will be available for Windows 8.

The games will be available through the Games app that comes with Windows 8 and through the Windows Store, said Microsoft.

The company did not say if the games would work on Windows RT OS, which is designed for tablets and PCs that run on ARM-based chips.

Here is the full list of games that will be available for Windows 8:

1. 4 Elements II Special Edition

2. A World of Keflings

3. Adera: Episode 1

4. Adera: Episode 2

5. Adera: Episode 3

6. Angry Birds

7. Angry Birds Space

8. Big Buck Hunter Pro

9. BlazBlue Calamity Trigger

10. Collateral Damage

11. Crash Course GO

12. Cut the Rope

13. Disney Fairies

14. Dragon's Lair

15. Field & Stream Fishing

16. Fruit Ninja

17. Gravity Guy

18. Gunstringer: Dead Man Running

19. Hydro Thunder Hurricane

20. IloMilo

21. iStunt 2

22. Jetpack Joyride

23. Kinectimals Unleashed

24. Microsoft Mahjong

25. Microsoft Minesweeper

26. Microsoft Solitaire Collection

27. Monster Island

28. PAC-MAN Championship Edition DX

29. Pinball FX 2

30. Reckless Racing Ultimate

31. Rocket Riot 3D

32. Shark Dash

33. Shuffle Party

34. Skulls of the Shogun

35. Taptiles

36. Team Crossword

37. The Harvest HD

38. Toy Soldiers Cold War

39. Wordament

40. Zombies

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