If you had a smartphone between 2013 and 2014, You’ve probably played Flappy Bird before.a mobile game that involves flying a bird through pipes. A simple but terribly addictive title that earned its creator Dong Nguyen a lot of money. Eventually, the game was pulled from theApp Store and of Google Play Storethe Vietnamese explaining that Flappy Bird had “become an addictive product”.
So this week, everyone was surprised to learn that “Flappy Bird is back”. This is the name of a video published by the Flappy Bird Foundationwhich promises an epic adventure with flappy and his friends in new worlds. In a press release, relayed by Gematsu, Flappy Bird Foundation claims to have bought the rights to Flappy Bird has Gametech Holdings and also hold the rights to Piou Piou against the cactithe game by the Frenchman Kek which inspired Flappy Bird. According to the press release, Kek is involved in this project, the game’s official website simply states that its “predecessor” is involved, but Dong Nguyen has not stated anything yet. The art of playing on words?
Because yes, this return of Flappy Bird still smells of trouble. Internet users did not fail to point out that Gametech Holdings did not buy the license for Flappy Bird from Dong Nguyen, he simply obtained it because the original creator did not have not renewed the deposit… Another point that makes one tick is Michael Roberts who is the creative director of this new Flappy Birdan entrepreneur specializing in cryptocurrency and non-fungible tokens. The trailer already shows loot boxes in the form of eggs to be hatched, Fans fear that this modern Flappy Bird is just a way to sell NFT (if so be it that the NFT still interest anyone today). The official website of the game invites us to join the account X (ex-Twitter) – which has eight subscribers, including Elon Musk – as well as a channel Telegrambut impossible to scroll up to the legal notices, generally at the bottom of the page…
Flappy Bird is expected from the end of 2024 on PC via web browsers, then on iOS and Android in 2025. But it’s best not to count on the return of the little canary given who is behind the project… You can find a bunch of smartphones on Amazon.
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