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The Return of Flappy Bird: Creator says popular mobile game will come back

After pulling his game because of all the angry Internet rage it generated, game developer Dong Nguyen is giving hope to Flappy Bird fans everywhere that his game may come back to the App Store.

That’s right: The highly addictive, highly infuriating Flappy Bird may one day (eventually) make its return to angry iPhone users everywhere, if Nguyen’s tweet to a fan last night is true:

If you’re unfamiliar with the wildly popular game, the premise is simple: Tap the screen to make a small bird flap his wings, and navigate him through a series of pipes set in front of him. While the controls are straightforward, the game is incredibly difficult, and a quick survey of Twitter and Facebook from several months ago shows how many people became engrossed in the addictive game.

Nguyen pulled the game from the App Store in March after a very successful two months, allegedly making as much as $50,000 a day in downloads. But irate Twitter messages and one particularly scathing Kotaku post that initially claimed Nguyen had “ripped” his art from the Mario Bros. series of games, Nguyen announced on Twitter he would be no longer offering the game.

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Nguyen told Rolling Stone in an interview following his removal of the game that if he ever brought it back, it would include a warning “Please take a break.” It looks like he may have to include that warning, after all.

Gawker reports that Nguyen is also working on another game called Kitty Jetpack, although there’s no word on whether it will be released before or after Flappy Bird’s return.

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