Farewell Flappy Bird, Popular Game Has Been Taken off the Android and Apple App Stores

Dong Nguyen, developer of the very popular mobile game Flappy Bird, announced yesterday that he would take the game off the Apple and Android Stores in about a day. Sure enough the game is now gone from the app stores. He said the game "ruined his life" which is why he took it down from the app stores.                                        

Flappy Bird Review: Worst 5 Minutes I Have Ever Spent

Flappy Bird is insanely popular. Its at the top of the charts for mobile games right now. It has around 500,000 reviews on The App Store. It was released about a year ago but just recently reached this high level of popularity. Why is it so popular? Its addicting, or so people say it is.

Normally I don't review or write anything at all about mobile games (I never have until now actually), but I think I need to write something about this poorly made, pointless game.

Why am I writing this? I thought I might as well try it out because its extremely popular and I wanted to see what all the fuss was about. Also its free, doesn't take up much space and is supposedly extremely addicting. What was there to lose? 5 minutes of my life down the drain spent playing this stupid piece of junk.

Flappy Bird is an incredibly hard and extremely simple endless platformer. Simple to the point where its not even really a game. Imagine something like Jetpack Joyride that's 100 times harder, with no powerups, no collectibles, no variety in the level, no difficulty curve, no objectives or anything but mindless, boring extremely difficult platforming. All you do is press start and tap the screen to make this thing that's supposed to resemble a bird fly between pipes without hitting them. When you pass by a pipe and you get a point. That's about it. No powerups, no variety in the level, no different game modes, no anything really.

Flappy Bird is probably the most frustrating game I have ever played. I think my high score is only 4 or 5. Other endless games like Jetpack Joyride and Temple Run start off easy and get harder the longer you survive. Those games have something important called a "difficulty curve". Flappy Bird does not. The game starts of extremely difficult from the start. It doesn't get easier or harder, its always the same frustrating difficulty level. Its not the least bit fun or addicting. I really don't see what the appeal is.

Forbes review is right. It's concerning that tons of people are obsessed with something so pointless.

"But it’s worrisome that we live in a world that would rocket an almost entirely mindless game like this to insane levels of popularity. Forget video games, what does that say about society as a whole? Have we reached a level of boredom bordering on dangerous if we’re spending our time en masse on something so pointless?"

Flappy Bird is an extremely simple, pointless, poorly made, frustrating game that I can't recommend to anyone. Flappy Bird is pure rubbish. Please don't download it. You can thank me later.

Score: 0/10

Pros:

None (yes it really is that bad)

Cons:
- Extremely frustrating
- So simple to the point where its difficult to consider it a game
- No difficulty curve
- No power ups or anything to spice things up
- Not at all addicting like it claims to be

I could add a bunch more things to the already long list of cons but I would end up writing a book. Once again avoid this game at all costs.

Defense Still Wins Championships: 'Hawks Demolish Broncos

Super Bowl XLVIII featured the best offense in the league and the best defense. The Denver Broncos set records for most points scored and TDs in a season. Even though the Seattle Seahawks had the top defense they wouldn't be able slow down this record setting offense would they? Well the 'Hawks showed the old saying can still apply to this crazy pass happy NFL league: "defense wins championships". Maybe it wasn't about whether Seattle could slow down Denver, but whether the Broncos could get past the 'Hawks defense.

Denver was never in the game. On the very first play of the game Denver snapped the ball too early. I don't know what happened here but the ball went flying over Peyton Mannings head resulting in a safety. Denver turned the ball over like there was no tomorrow and was never able to compete in the game.

Seattle didn't do anything spectacular on offense. QB Russell Wilson threw for 206 yards and 2 TDs. As usual it wasn't anything spectacular but the young QB was very efficient and didn't make any mistakes. Marshawn Lynch didn't have a great game only getting 39 yards on 15 carries but he did score a TD.

The Seahawks defense is what won the game for them. They picked off Manning twice and held him to 280 yards (and most of those yards were when the game was out of hand). Denver was unable to run the ball against Seattle's tough run D. The Hawk's also recovered 2 Broncos fumbles.

Seattle won the game 43-8. It wasn't even close. Denver just couldn't get through the impenetrable Seattle defense.

Wii U Only Sells 8K this Week In Japan

This week's Japanese sales charts are in. Wii U sales are continuing to drop. This week it sold a miserable 8K. The 3DS is continuing to do dominate selling 38K. The PS Vita has done much better in sales lately selling over 20K again.

The Wii U is in some serious trouble. It continues to sell very poorly. Nintendo will have to hope that upcoming games like Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze and Mario Kart 8 will boost sales.

The Alien Game We Have Been Waiting For? Alien: Isolation Announced by Sega

SEGA has officially announced Alien: Isolation, a first person survival horror game set 15 years after Alien. You will play as Ripley's daughter Amanda.

It sounds like Alien: Isolation is going to be a true survival horror game. Isolation will show how terrifying one Xenomorph can be rather than tons and tons like in Aliens: Colonial Marines.

It all sounds promising but remember what happened with Aliens Colonial Marines? Aliens: Isolation will be out late 2014 on PS4, Xbox One, PS3, Xbox 360 and PC. Hopefully this will be the Aliens game fans have been waiting for.

EA Getting Sued Over Glitchy Battlefield 4

Battlefield 4 is a very glitchy game. Corrupt save data, servers constantly going down, terrible lag, constant crashes among other issues. I don't own Battlefield 4. Can you guess why?

EA is getting sued over it by some investors who bought stock in EA between July and December. Basically they are saying that EA mislead them because Battlefield 4 was supposed to be a big success and instead people got a buggy mess of a game. EA's stock rose when they told investors Battlefield 4 was going to be a big hit. It went down after the game launched because of all the issues.

Developer DICE has said they are going to postpone all their future projects while they try to fix the game.

Auburn Shocks the Nation With Crazy Win Over Alabama

Alabama the #1 team in the nation lost to rival Auburn 34-28 off a missed FG returned for a TD with 1 second to play.

The game was tied 28-28 with around 30 seconds left. Alabama had the ball. Bama moved the ball down field just enough to set up a potential game winning 57 yard field goal. The game almost ended on the last play before the field goal attempt because the game clock showed no time left. The play was reviewed and overturned. So with 1 second left Alabama got ready to kick a 57 yard field goal. K Cade Foster had already missed 3 field goals in the game so they put in their other K Adam Griffith. Griffith missed it and Chris Davis returned it all the way for a TD and got Auburn the win.

This is probably the craziest ending to a game I have ever seen. I'm not sure what to make of it. This may be the craziest ending to a game ever.

As a UGA fan I could care less about either team. Although I am glad Bama finally lost, this means Ohio State who hasn't beat anyone good, will probably be in the National Championship. Heck they haven't even played anyone good the past two years.