Google on Tuesday published its annual Year In Review post, highlighting key trends for the year, and it showed that the mobile sensation Flappy Bird was by far the most searched games term. Bungie's ...

The success of Flappy Bird was possibly the strangest gaming event of 2014. The notoriously difficult endless runner gained a mountain of hype and dominated the iOS and Android app charts. Creator ...

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 ...

Flappy Bird, the arcade-style game released in 2013 in which players have to get a bird through a series of pipes, was a sought-after app among mobile users. But, the addictive nature of the game led ...

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Flappy Bird is back, and this time in 3-D. Fawn Qiu , a 2010 Wharton graduate, built a physical version of the mobile game Flappy Bird, called Flappy Bird in a Box. Flappy Bird was downloaded over 50 ...

Flappy Bird is an albatross. Game developer Dong Nguyen tweeted on Saturday that he “cannot take this anymore." This being the massively overhyped phenomenon that is his mobile timewaster. While ...

Last week brought the unexpected news that Flappy Bird, the 2014 viral hit, is making a comeback. But the game's creator Dong Nguyen was notably absent from the announcement, and the more you look ...

Flappy Bird is 2014’s most searched for game of 2014, according to data released by Google. Search traffic for the stupidly popular pipe-avoider reached its peak on February 9. To put the popularity ...

Flappy Bird, the arcade-style game released in 2013 in which players have to get a bird through a series of pipes, was a sought-after app among mobile users. But, the addictive nature of the game led ...

The most searched for video game on Google this year wasn’t Call of Duty, Destiny, or any of those other huge console titles. Instead, Google has reported, it was the mobile game Flappy Bird. In fact, ...