Weekly NDM #12

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/shortcuts/2014/feb/05/flappy-bird-new-angry-birds-makes-rage-apps Flappy Bird is not the new Angry Birds - it's pure rage In a single week, it has become the No 1 free app on Google Play's app store. But this game with a pudgy green bird isn't fun to play - it just sends you into a fury Flappy Bird is the No 1 free app in the Google Play app store. Since its launch on the site last week, it has become such a phenomenon that people are already calling it the new Angry Birds. In it, you control a pudgy green bird. Tap the screen once and the bird soars into the air. Leave the screen untapped and it plummets to the ground. The bird lives in a world full of pipes, and you have to guide it through the gaps between them. If the bird misses one gap - just one, no matter how glancingly - it dies, and you have to start again. - Flappy birds was originally launched in May 2013, but all off a sudden everyone has been downloading it from play app store, the use of word of mouth advertisement had become big, and everyone has been telling their family/friends to download it, hence it being no1 on the play app store. The game is really frustrating as it is hard to get through the pipes. However, it really challenges you and makes people want to play more until they get a good highest score.