When I was 6 years old, I’d boot up the house computer and play the pre-installed games on Windows 96. There was Billiards, which I played constantly despite never knowing the rules of the game.

SwitchBot, one of many companies based in the manufacturing hub of Shenzhen, offered up its Kata stress toy, a cuddly ...

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 ...

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File: lib/homepage.dart Function: startGame Hint: Use a Timer to periodically update the bird's position and barriers. Apply physics equations to simulate gravity and jumping.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, there's nothing better than being able to pilot your own ship through a vast, virtual galaxy. In my humble opinion, it's a quintessential part of creating a ...

Flappy Racquet is a Flappy Bird clone with a tennis twist, featuring stars of the sport like Nick Kyrgios as playable NFT characters. Gamers can earn gems that they can later swap for SCOR tokens ...

Flappy Bird unexpectedly became the biggest game of 2014, on its way to becoming one of the most successful games of all time. However, one day it just disappeared, leaving many people confused and ...

Flappy Bird, the once very popular phone game, has made a comeback and can now only be found on Android phones through the Epic Games Store. Unlike its controversial Telegram version from last year, ...

More than ten years after its first release, the renowned mobile game Flappy Bird is returning to Android smartphones. Android users can access the reworked edition only via the Epic Games Store; it ...

Jason Fennell is a writer and game designer based out of Chicago, IL. He has been writing articles about video games for several years now, with a professional interest in Adobe Flash and its legacy.