The extinction of ‘Flappy Bird’: the rise and fall of a frustratingly simple mobile game
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An ‘official’ Flappy Bird game is back, but it has nothing to do with the original creator.
Today, a Flappy Bird game launched in the Epic Games Store on Android (and nowhere else, so far), but is it the Flappy Bird? It’s from the same “Flappy Bird Foundation” that said it acquired the trademark last year, and also seems to have some kind of crypto / Web 3 tie-in ambitions.
However, its clone is being released without any involvement or arrangement with the game’s creator, Dong Nguyen, who pulled it from app stores more than a decade ago, saying the game was “too addictive.” He tweeted about it last September:
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