This week, the creator of Flappy Bird is releasing Swing Copters, an even more difficult version of the highly addictive mobile game. Maybe he missed making $50,000 a day. Swing Copters borrows the ...

Flappy Bird is an arcade mobile game that was released in 2013. The game was panned by critics but became a huge hit a few months after it was released, with its poor gameplay proving to be ...

A little while ago, we heard that the creator of Flappy Bird was to return with another game dubbed Swing Copters. The teaser trailer showed us gameplay which looked remarkably like Flappy Bird’s own, ...

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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 ...

More than ten years after its first release, the renowned mobile game Flappy Bird is returning to Android smartphones. Android users can access the reworked edition only via the Epic Games Store; it ...

The inspiration for Flappy Bird, a game deemed so addictive by its creator he pulled it from mobile phones for awhile, was ping pong. Specifically, Flappy Bird creator Dong Nguyen told a gathering of ...

Flappy Bird has taken over the No. 1 spot for free games on the iOS and Google Play app stores in the past week. It’s a simple game in terms of graphics, but it has very difficult gameplay. And that ...

The Flappy Bird obsession continues this week as the creator of the original game has completely shut down his app and – in the wake of this event – clones have arisen. This isn't the first time we've ...

Now that Flappy Bird has been pulled from the app stores, I've put together a collection of knockoffs that get some things right, but mostly miss the mark. Jason Parker has been at CNET for nearly 15 ...

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