Flappy Bird Is Coming Back and Stinks of Crypto

Flappy Bird, the highly addictive, arcade-style mobile crippled astir a vertebrate named Faby is coming backmost to an app store adjacent you. Unfortunately, there’s a anticipation that the iconic crippled whitethorn beryllium tied up successful a clump of crypto nonsense now.

The archetypal Flappy Bird was developed by Vietnamese video crippled decorator Dong Nguyen and released done Nguyen’s crippled company, DotGears. It was released connected iOS successful 2013 and came to Android successful 2014. The crippled became an instant sensation, spurring radical to discarded copious amounts of clip wearing retired their thumbs connected its elemental but difficult-to-master pursuits.

Then, somewhat abruptly, Nguyen took the crippled down. He ne'er wholly clarified wherefore helium had taken the crippled down, but to assertion that helium felt atrocious astir radical being addicted to it. And radical were pretty addicted to it. That said, archetypal Giz reporting from the clip notes that the game’s dense borrowing of ocular elements from Super Mario whitethorn person besides encouraged the creator to instrumentality the crippled down.

Now, aft a agelong hiatus, Flappy Bird is coming back. The crippled is acceptable to beryllium released adjacent year, according to a property announcement.  The Verge reports that the rights to the crippled were acquired by an enactment calling itself “The Flappy Bird Foundation Group.” The rights antecedently belonged to a institution called Gametech, LLC, The Verge writes. The radical down the caller merchandise picture themselves arsenic a “team of passionate fans committed to sharing the crippled with the world.”

Unfortunately, determination is crushed to judge that the caller mentation of Flappy Bird whitethorn conscionable beryllium a visually pleasing Trojan equine for immoderate crypto bullshit. This week, web users began chattering astir the information that the crippled appeared to person ties to a web3 project.

Indeed, archived images of the caller Flappy Bird website, and initially shared by Protos, amusement that the tract erstwhile contained pages discussing Flappy’s caller evident transportation to the Solana blockchain. “The legendary Flappy Bird TM is backmost and volition alert higher than ever connected Solana arsenic it soars into Web 3.0,” the tract states, successful one web-captured image. “Flappy Bird volition present beryllium the world’s archetypal open-source, community-owned Web 2 and Web 3 game,” it adds. The leafage mentioning crypto present returns a 404 error.

Over the weekend, Nguyen returned to Twitter to disavow immoderate narration with the game. “No, I person nary related with their game,” helium wrote. “I did not merchantability anything. I besides don’t enactment crypto.”

Suffice it to say, this is astir apt not the optimal mode for Flappy to instrumentality to america all. Gizmodo reached retired to the crippled developers for remark and to inquire whether the crippled has immoderate transportation to the crypto industry. We’ll update this station erstwhile we person a reply.