How to Deal With Flappy Bird's Demise Nguyen Ha Dong, the author of the game Flappy Bird, relaxes inside a coffee shop in Hanoi, Vietnam, Feb. 5, 2014.

Flappy Bird doesn’t have anything like the same game play as Super Mario, it’s far simpler – all you have to is keep tapping on your screen to keep a little bird afloat and help it fly past ...

Feb. 11, 2014 -- On Feb. 8, Dong Nguyen announced that he would be removing his hit game Flappy Bird from both the iOS and Android app stores, saying that the success of the game is something he ...

Flappy Bird features a flying bird players navigate between pipes by tapping the touchscreen to keep it airborne. The game was known for being especially difficult compared to most mobile titles.

UPDATE: Flappy Bird is no longer available to download in the iOS App Store, or on Google Play. If you have previously downloaded it, you can still flap to your wings' content.

“Flappy Bird” gives players a chance to steer a tiny bird through a difficult obstacle course of metal pipes. But it’s unclear why it shot to the top of the most downloaded charts.

In a bizarre turn of events, the Vietnamese creator of the maddeningly difficult #1 Android and Apple iOS game Flappy Bird is saying that he's taking the game down within the next day. Developer ...

I cannot take this anymore." At this point, "Flappy Bird" was reportedly bringing in $50,000 a day through the game's banner ads. —Dong Nguyen (@dongatory) February 8, 2014 ...

Flappy Bird creator Dong Nguyen has an impressive 170,000 followers on Twitter, so when he speaks, scads of people are listening, and when he responds to simple, declarative questions with simple ...

Flappy Bird is a mobile game that rose to popularity over the last few months but was suddenly removed from both the Apple App Store and Google Play last weekend. Since then, some Android users ...