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 ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Just over a decade after its 2013 release--and its surprisingly quick removal from app stores--the immensely popular Flappy Bird is finally returning ...

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, ...

It's been over half a decade since the brief mobile sensation of Flappy Bird caught the attention of many. While it first released in May 2013, the creator of the endless running side-scroller, Dong ...

Who knew? A simple flap facilitates a well-established psychological theory. shutterstock.com While I do not disregard the many non-game factors that influenced the game’s initial success, such as the ...

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Retry is the next game from developers originally behind the release of Angry Birds; But despite its ties to the Finnish game studio Rovio, the new mobile title appears to be more influenced by the ...

Apparently solving the equation "Flappy Bird + Y axis," creator Dong Nguyen has unveiled the follow-up to his mobile phenomenon, and it's Swing Copters. As Touch Arcade reports, Swing Copters features ...

The ultra-popular, but no-longer-available, video game "Flappy Bird" may be coming back -- but not anytime soon, according to its creator. When a Twitter user asked him if he was going to put "Flappy ...