Introducing Lazer, the newest of the Angry Birds

Today developer Rovio Mobile showed off one of the new birds we'll see in the upcoming Angry Birds Space, out next Thursday, March 22. The stylish Lazer Bird is "one of the fastest objects in the universe."

Recently NASA astronaut Don Pettit helped announce the new game from the black expanse of the Final Frontier itself. Angry Birds Space is slated for Mac, PC, iOS, and Android and crams in 60 levels, six new characters (one of them Lazer Bird), superpowers, and revamped gameplay that now follows the rules of zero gravity.

The developer also partnered with Samsung to give Galaxy Note owners a bonus 30 levels.

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