"I have no [relation to] their game," said Flappy Bird creator Dong Nguyen in a post on X Martin Keene/PA Images via Getty Flappy Bird, the game that many were obsessed with a decade ago, may be ...

Jason Fennell is a writer and game designer based out of Chicago, IL. He has been writing articles about video games for several years now, with a professional interest in Adobe Flash and its legacy.

A decade after the wildly popular game Flappy Bird disappeared, an organization calling itself the Flappy Bird Foundation announced plans to “re-hatch the official Flappy Bird® game.” But this morning ...

Matthew was the Apps and Games Editor at Android Police until 2025. If you are wondering why someone would clone Flappy Bird, here are the words of the cloner VadimBoev (above). The idea was to make a ...

The Flappy Bird phenomenon may inspire the next generation of coders. That’s what one computer-science group is counting on. The technology nonprofit Code.org, which works toward getting kids into ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mobile video game phenomenon Flappy Bird is set to return 10 years after its creator pulled it offline. In 2014, Vietnam-based developer Dong Nguyen shocked the gaming world when he pulled viral hit ...

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 ...