Flappy Bird is a free game. It generates revenue by way of ads that pop up when you die. We haven't exhaustively checked, but the pirated versions of Flappy Bird appear to still have ads. We haven't ...

Bet you thought you’d wake up this morning to find that the ’round-the-clock coverage of Flappy Bird that saturated tech blogs last week had finally ground to a halt. Sorry. And I recognize the irony ...

Flappy Bird is gone, but fans definitely still want to play. And if they’re not ready to pay $99,000 for a phone with the original app, you can bet they’re searching furiously for somewhere to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Let the flapless among us take heart. "Flappy Bird," the now defunct mobile sensation, will one day rise like a phoenix and fling itself awkwardly into an app store near you. Dong Nguyen, the creator ...

Flappy Bird has been taken down from the App Store and Google Play. Dong Nguyen announced on Twitter yesterday (February 8) that the mobile game would be removed from the online services, adding that ...

But for two reasons, it would be easy to dismiss Flappy Bird as an eight-bit, fly-by-night app-store success. First, the .GEARS Studio game sits atop both the Google Play and iOS app stores' rankings, ...

Flappy Bird has topped the charts of free mobile apps in the iOS and Google Play app stores. It is a silly free game, and that fact that it has climbed so high in the past week is a sign that we’re ...

It’s day 4 of Gizmodo’s March Madness bracket challenge to name the greatest app of all time! Yesterday’s match-up was the biggest blowout we’ve seen yet with Google Maps taking 96 percent of the vote ...