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 ...

The phenomenal Flappy Bird might have been shot down by its own creator but it lives on as inspiration for aspiring coders and mobile application designers. Non-profit organization Code.org hopes to ...

Flappy Bird is the sixth circle of Hell given digital form. The game is agonizingly frustrating, deceptively addictive, and has literally stolen art assets from the NES version of Super Mario Bros.

Whilst Flappy Bird is no longer available in the Apple app store or the Google Play Store, fans of the game are coming up with some innovative ways to play the game. One such creative adaptation is ...

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 ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. At its core, Flappy Bird is a simple game. You poke the screen to make the bird flap. You try not to bump into the pipes. You see how far you can get ...

The inspiration for Flappy Bird, a game deemed so addictive by its creator he pulled it from mobile phones for awhile, was ping pong. Specifically, Flappy Bird creator Dong Nguyen told a gathering of ...

Much of what makes Flappy Bird such a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad game—the stupid simplicity, its borrowed Nintendo aesthetic—also make it an ideal game for the hackable, nostalgia-obsessed ...