Enter the Dragon, With Rumored Chinese New Year Update for Angry Birds Seasons [VIDEO]

A screenshot from the hint-dropping Rovio video.

Rovio Mobile, makers of the Angry Birds game series, has left a very big hint that its Angry Birds Seasons game will get a Chinese New Year update very soon.

The hint, spotted by Pocketgamer UK, comes in a new year’s greeting uploaded to YouTube (and embedded below) which sees a dragon fly past at the exact same time that it mentions there’ll be an update to the smash-hit game this January. If that not-too-subtle hint isn’t enough, the lanterns, red walls, and karst peaks ought to be sufficient to indicate that the game will soon get its second-ever Chinese-themed update – after the moon festival episode back in September last year.

Chinese New Year is a lunar festival which this year falls on January 23rd – so the anticipated Angry Birds Seasons update (which last got refreshed for Christmas) will certainly arrive a few days before that.

That previous moon festival special edition came with merchandising – some cute Angry Birds mooncakes. Given Rovio’s increasing move into the general entertainment industry – as we heard the company’s Peter Vesterbacka explain at the TC Disrupt Beijing conference recently – it’s likely that Chinese New Year will give rise to some new birdy merchandise.

Here’s the Rovio video greeting for regular new year, which contains the Chinese teaser:

[Source: Pocketgamer]