Don’t be fooled by Flappy Bird’s colorful, Mario-inspired graphics. The game is a brutal, unforgiving, neverending gauntlet of pain and death. And once you start playing it you might never stop.

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 ...

Flappy Bird is a terrible game, but it’s harmless fun. It’s got a high profile because of a so-bad-it’s-good quality, social media humour and is free. And it’s nice to see a free game rather than one ...

A tiny bird is frustrating game players in record numbers, again. This time it’s “Flappy Bird,” a no-frills smartphone game that has become the most downloaded free iPhone and Android app in the past ...

Last April, Dong Nguyen, a quiet 28-year-old who lived with his parents in Hanoi, Vietnam, and had a day job programming location devices for taxis, spent a holiday weekend making a mobile game. He ...

Flappy Bird is coming back with a brand new game and without its creator. Credit: Martin Keene/PA Images via Getty Images Ten years ago, a simple mobile game called Flappy Bird took the world by storm ...