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Casual mobile hit Flappy Bird returns to stores under odd circumstances

A decade after the viral mobile game was discontinued, Flappy Bird is returning without its original developer.

The game, which was only as mechanically dense as tapping a screen to time jumps between pipes, was driven by an advertising model that showed ads between common deaths. In a press release, the group mentions obtaining the trademark for Flappy Bird from Gametech LLC with Dong Nguyen’s name conspicuously absent from today’s news. Gametech’s reasoning in these court filings appears to be that the trademark expired as a result of Nguyen not intending to reuse Flappy Bird again.

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