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Flappy Bird Creator Relents, To Return in August as Multiplayer Game
An employee plays the game Flappy Bird at a smartphone store in Hanoi on February 10, 2014. The Vietnamese developer behind the smash-hit free game Flappy Bird has pulled his creation from online stores after announcing that its runaway success had ruined his ‘simple life’. (Photo HOANG DINH NAM/AFP/Getty Images)
Creator Dong Nguyen, the one-man team behind Vietnamese game developer DotGears Studios has finally relented from his February shut down to return as a multiplayer title in August this year.
Nguyen told CNBC on Wednesday that the game will return this August, with more updates allowing multiple players to compete with others in real time to flap the infamous haunter. In a tweet, the CNBC Social Team said: “Flappy Bird creator Dong Nguyen tells @Kelly_Evans that he’s bringing back Flappy Birds, but not soon; it’ll have a multi-player feature.”
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