and we're here to help! Flappy Bird fans all over the world are in mourning, as the game has been yanked from all online stores by its creator, Dong Nguyen – but lo, there is a light at the end of this seemingly endless tunnel!
In the wake of Flappy Bird being taken down from the App Store in a fit of what appeared to be unnecessary drama, roughly one billion clones and variations on the simple game — which in itself is a clone of roughly one billion games that came before it — have sprung up. A new variation on the game is FlapMMO, an online, competitive iteration of suddenly popular game. The basic — and only — mechanic in Flappy Bird is you tap the screen in order to raise the
After the much publicised removal of the Flappy Bird game from the Apple and Google app stores, crafty netizens are jumping on the bandwagon. To make a quick buck while the app… To make a quick buck while the app is still in the spotlight, some are auctioning online smartphones with the game installed for several hundreds, even thousands, dollars. Some initial prices, in the tens of thousands of dollars, are too outrageous to be taken seriously. For others, it
It's been the talk of the online world this weekend — what really happened to "Flappy Bird"? The smash app, No. 1 on both the Apple and Android app stores, became more popular than Hanoi-based Dong Nguyen ever imagined, so he announced he would
Ebay sellers were quick to cash-in on Flappy Bird addiction however, immediately listing hundreds of iPhones and other devices with the game still playable, with one rocketing up to an eye-watering $80,500 (about £50,000). The linear game sees users