GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. Just over a decade after its 2013 release–and its surprisingly quick ...

Flappy Bird enjoyed phenomenal success in just over a week, only to be taken down from the App Store on Sunday. The gaming concept for Flappy Bird couldn’t be more simple. You simply tap your screen ...

"Flappy Bird" was pulled from app stores on Feb. 9. Courtesy/GEARS Studio Oh, “Flappy Bird.” You came into our lives, stole our hearts – and then disappeared without so much as a Dear John letter or ...

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GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. Comebacks in gaming are nothing new in the industry, but last week’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Now you finally have a way to play Flappy Bird again Flappy Bird might have been the biggest mobile game of all time, causing a ...

Flappy Bird is the latest viral hit in the mobile gaming world. But on Sunday, the developer took down the game because it became way too popular, too quickly. In the game, you have to help the bird ...

13 years ago, an app was launched that changed mobile gaming forever. This deceptively simple side-scroller burned bright and quickly. 18 million people downloaded it before it was pulled from the app ...

One of the most memorable stories in my last decade of covering gaming was when Flappy Bird creator, Dong Nguyen, announced one day that he was deleting the game entirely. This was at the height of ...

Flappy Bird, the flash-in-the-pan addictive smartphone game, was pulled from Google and Apple's app stores this weekend. The game's creator, Dong Nguyen, decided to pull it on his own, surprising ...

When the smartphone phenomenon Flappy Bird took off not so long ago — and before it morphed into something uncontrollable and became its own hard-to-swallow lesson for the game industry — it was as if ...

Remember Dong Nguyen, developer of wildly popular mobile game Flappy Bird, who reportedly made $50,000 per day before pulling his creation from the App Store? Well, he’s back with a brand new game ...