The new Flappy Bird game might have a very direct relationship to something unexpected. Cryptocurrency.
  • henfredemars@infosec.pubEnglish
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    7 days ago

    Quite a stretch to call this Flappy Bird. It’s more like: trademark sniped and name being reused to snag unsuspecting users looking for the original game.

    New game by the same name is obvious cash grab. Of course it would be. Its entire purpose is name squatting the real Flappy Bird. They even went so far as to name themselves The Flappy Bird Foundation with no real relation to the titular game, for the express purpose of sounding official.

    You’d be lucky it doesn’t come with malware because the entire premise is fundamentally a scam.

  • zarkanian@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    6·
    6 days ago

    “The legendary Flappy Bird is back and will fly higher than ever on Solana as it soars into Web 3.0 … Flappy Bird will now be the world’s first open-source, community owned web2 and web3 game … Build, create, play and stake to own,” the landing text reads.

    It’s…Flappy…Bird. WTF are they on about?! The game is already one step below Pac-Man. This is like trying to monetize Pong.