Flappy Bird became one of the biggest mobile games in history almost overnight, earning an estimated $50,000 a day before ...
Correction (June 3, 2025): This article originally contained quotes from a reddit user that was misattributed as the developer of the app. These quotes have been removed while we investigate the ...
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 ...