When a much-loved but now, sadly defunct video game suddenly comes back to life, you’d think it was a cause for celebration as gamers around the world flex their thumbs in anticipation. But the story ...
Flappy Bird, the game that many were obsessed with a decade ago, may be coming back, but its original creator is not involved. On Sept. 12, it was announced on X (formerly Twitter) that the beloved ...
A core reason why recent hits like Flappy Bird and Threes found success -- and are massively addictive -- lies in the way they put us in a unique zen-like state known as flow. Nick Statt was a staff ...
Last week brought the unexpected news that Flappy Bird, the 2014 viral hit, is making a comeback. But the game's creator Dong Nguyen was notably absent from the announcement, and the more you look ...
The follow-up to this year's most maddening mobile hit is slated for release later this week. The early takeaway: prepare to fail, a lot. Nick Statt was a staff reporter for CNET News covering ...
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It’s hard to imagine a job requiring you to have a love of repeatedly crashing into things, but we live in a post-Flappy Bird world now, and all the rules have changed. Now, a Chinese developer wants ...
You probably have a friend or two who has wasted some of their life—more than they ever wanted—playing Flappy Bird. And no matter what we or your friends say about this terrible game, it won't stop ...
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Early this year, a mobile game created by Dong Nguyen of dotGears, an indie game studio based in Vietnam, flapped its way to the top of ...
Flappy Bird was a veritable phenomenon. It seems ridiculous in hindsight (and, let’s be honest, it kind of did at the time, too), but the exceedingly simplistic title had a momentary stranglehold on ...
GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Dong Nguyen, the creator of the simple but brutally difficult Flappy Bird, said on Twitter that he will pull the game from the iTunes App Store and ...