Angry Birds developer Rovio is aiming to hit 1 billion ‘fans’ for the game as it continues to expand its presence around the world. Speaking to Mobile World Live at the recent Nokia World event in London, Rovio chief marketing officer and 'Mighty Eagle' Peter Vesterbacka said: “We want to be the first entertainment brand with a billion fans. So it’s really a billion people engaging with us every single day – people we can talk to, communicate with, have a dialogue [with] through our game. We think that that’s something that hasn’t been done before.” Vesterbacka added that the company expects to hit 1 billion downloads of Angry Birds games “sometime next year.” Earlier this month it announced the half a billion download milestone.