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Roku’s line of boxes have come a long way from being used only to stream Netflix, and now the company has announced a plan to take its talents to casual gaming. Naturally, the first app out of the gate this summer will be the wildly popular and increasingly ubiquitous Angry Birds . There’s not a lot of details available yet and while we’re told the gaming experience will be available on a new player launching this summer, whether or not the existing Roku hardware will get any gaming action remains to be seen. Roku CEO Anthony Wood is very excited about the company’s gaming prospects saying “Just as we were the first to enable Netflix to stream instantly to the TV, we intend to be the catalyst for transforming the way people play casual games-starting with Angry Birds-on the biggest screen in the home”. The rest of the reasons to believe in Roku as a gaming are in the press release after the break but while we wouldn’t bet against the upstart media streamer maker, it may be a bit tougher to compete with Xbox 360, PS3 and whatever Nintendo has up its sleeve on their native turf. Continue reading Roku brings casual gaming to its internet TV platform starting with Angry Birds this summer Roku brings casual gaming to its internet TV platform starting with Angry Birds this summer originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 01 Jun 2011 01:27:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink