Internet security firm Trend Micro is warning those who don't already own Flappy Bird on Android to be careful what they download. According to a blog post from the firm, a number of unscrupulous scammers are taking advantage of Flappy Bird creator Dong Nguyen pulling his game this week by creating apps with trojans and malware in them.

Dong Nguyen, the 29-year-old Veitnamese indie creator of the popular mobile game Flappy Bird, said that he removed the game from both Google Play for Android and iTunes for iOS devices because he was deeply concerned that the game was too addictive. There has been plenty of speculation that Nguyen pulled the game because of legal threats from Nintendo (for using art similar to art found in the Super Mario Bros. series of games) or because he couldn't handle the pressure, but it turns out that - he claims at least - he had a lot of concerns about people playing his game too much.

Earlier today we learned that indie developer Dong Nguyen pulled his popular and highly criticized Android and iOS game Flappy Bird off of both marketplaces. The result has had an interesting, albeit minor, ripple effect as people try to find ways to cash in on the popularity of the game.

Flappy Bird creator Dong Nguyen has yanked his popular mobile app from Google Play and Apple's App Store after his game received a lot of attention in the last couple of weeks. The game was getting attention for several reasons; for what some in the media deemed its lack of quality and for allegedly borrowing elements from other games. The media was also trying to figure out why the game was so popular - it was the top free download on the App Store and Google Play last month - given its level of quality.

A new "Letter from the Chairman" post on the Roberts Space Industries web site from company founder Chris Roberts reveals that Star Citizen has managed to surpass the $38 million crowd funding mark. By hitting this new milestone backers have helped unlock the fully aquatic planet, the Cano System. Roberts also noted that he is excited and impressed with the use of the recently launched Organizations feature:

According to an OnGamers report, World Cyber Games is finished holding eSports tournaments this year and may cease operations beyond being just a "brand." The World Cyber Games is one of the world's most popular and recognized e-sports tournament organizations operating competitions in Asia, North America, South America, Europe, Africa, and Oceania.

EA COO Peter Moore says that weaker sales of Battlefield 4 on last generation consoles are due to the turbulence of the console transition and not 'quality issues' that plagued the game's launch. EA announced last night that next-gen software sales were robust, but not strong enough to offset a massive decline in last-generation software during the holiday season.

Following its report yesterday that the NSA and other spy agencies were exploiting "leaky apps" such as Rovio's Angry Birds to gather information on users around the world, ProPublica has released this handy FAQ to better explain exactly how the whole process works and what consumers can do to moderately protect their privacy.

Puzzle & Dragons developer GungHo Online expects to rake in around $1.2 billion in revenue this year, and because it keeps its overhead low, it expects to keep about $700 million of that figure after expenses. These numbers are from CEO Kazuki Morishita, who recently spoke with CNN Fortune about the company's runaway hit game and business in general.

He attributes at least some of his company's success to his experience as a Manzai artist and stand-up comedian - believe it or not.

Angry Birds maker Rovio issued a statement today (which they passed along to GamePolitics this morning following a request for comment yesterday) in response to a report from ProPublica that spy agencies were gathering information on users of its popular game. The company said in a statement that it does not share data about its users with government agencies such as the NSA or the UK's GCHQ.

It should come as no shock to anyone that Minecraft on the PS3 has sold one million copies. Mojang's Daniel Kaplan described the new sales milestone as "crazy" but no one should be surprised that PS3 owners love Minecraft as much as everyone else does.

Microsoft has purchased the Gears of War franchise from Epic Games, much like it did with Halo. The company now owns the franchise and all previous versions of the game. The Globe and Mail has all the details on the deal, including the fact that Microsoft's Vancouver-based studio, Black Tusk Studios, will be in charge of the franchise moving forward.

Former Call of Duty and God of War developers are teaming up to launch a Kickstarter campaign for a fighting game called "To The Death." As the name implies, To The Death is a fighting game for PC and Mac that promises to combine the best elements from first-person shooters and beat 'em ups with blazingly fast gameplay running at 60 FPS.

According to sales numbers in a report from SuperData, Riots Games' popular MOBA game League of Legends generated $624 million in 2013, beating out such big brand name games as Dungeon Fighter Online, World of Tanks, Maplestory, Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike Online and World of Warcraft - just to name a few.

Publisher Majesco released results for its fourth fiscal quarter of 2013 as well as for the full year, and it is not good news. For the quarter, the Zumba publisher said that net revenues were down a whopping 62 percent to $10.1 million, with a net loss of $4.6 million. For the full fiscal year, Majesco's net revenues declined 64 percent to $47.3 million, leading to an operating loss of $12.6 million.

While various classic Fallout games are no longer available on GOG.com, license holder Bethesda promises to make the classic games - Fallout, Fallout 2 and Fallout Tactics - available again as soon as possible. So where will customers find these games in the future? According to Bethesda's Twitter feed, they'll be on Valve's Steam at some point in the future:

During a public Neuroethics Society meeting at the University of California at San Diego, Braid developer Jonathon Blow called Zynga's popular Facebook franchise Farmville "kind of malicious," and said that the social game is just "reward structure layered on reward structure" with no game at all. Blow also took aim at PopCap's popular game Plants vs. Zombies 2.

It should come as no shock that the Chinese government has banned Battlefield 4 - not that it ultimately matters to publisher Electronic Arts - the game isn't available in the region anyway. Earlier in the month the military criticized the unreleased DLC "China Rising," saying that it put the country in a bad light.

The standalone early access version of the zombie survival game DayZ has managed to generate sales in the $5.1 million range in its first 24 hours since launch, with new players joining the zombie survival adventure every hour (88,000 survivors joined in the first 12 hours), according to Bohemia Interactive's CEO Maruk Spanel.

He revealed on his blog that, after 24 hours of being made available, 172,500 copies of the game had been sold and 142,403 players were online. The early access version of the game landed on Steam earlier this week.

Minecraft and Candy Crush Saga are the top iPhone and iPad apps of 2013, according to Apple's annual year-end report on its free and paid apps for its iOS devices.

On both the free iPhone and iPad charts, Candy Crush Saga was the king of the hill, while paid apps on both platforms were ruled by Mojang's pocket edition of Minecraft.

Both games beat out some pretty powerful competition including YouTube, Google Maps, Skype, and even Instagram.

The full list can be found below:

Top 10 Free iPhone Apps

The Big Huge Games' assets that are part of the 38 Studios asset auction have fetched $320,000, according to a report on Joystiq. Sold as part of two lots, the Big Huge Games trademark was sold, along with the Rise of Legends and Rise of Nations strategy game properties. Details on who purchased these assets has not been disclosed.

inXile Entertainment announced that crowd-funding backers of its upcoming game Wasteland 2, can grab a code right now and try the game out before everyone else. InXile announced that backers can log-in to their Ranger Center accounts and grab a Steam key now. The game is currently only available for Windows at the moment, but will be made available on Mac and Linux at some point after some more vigorous testing of those builds occurs.

Riot Games, makers of the popular MOBA game League of Legends, requires a lot from players who want to sign up with them to play professionally.

According to an announcement made by Activision today, Call of Duty: Ghosts is the best-selling PS4 game so far. The PlayStation 4 launched on Nov. 15, and the PS4 version of Call of Duty: Ghosts was launched on the same day. The game is also available for last-generation consoles and PC, with an Xbox One version launching at the end of this week. The company cited sales data from top North American retailers including Best Buy, GameStop, Target, and Wal-Mart.

Football Manager GM Miles Jacobson said recently (as reported by MCV) at the London Games Conference 2013 event that 10.1 million copies of the PC version of Football Manager 2013 have been illegally downloaded. The game was cracked on May 12, but the crack featured a strange flaw called Home that allowed Jacobson and his company to track the IP addresses of everyone who downloaded the game illegally and played it.

2PlayerProductions has released Minecraft: The Story of Mojang on YouTube for free. Minecraft: The Story of Mojang is a feature length documentary about the ultra-popular indie sandbox title and the people that made it on YouTube. The Minecraft documentary began as successful Kickstarter project in February 2011 where it received $210,297 out of a $150,000 goal.

2PlayerProductions is a documentary film company that is currently working on a documentary about the making of Double Fine's Broken Age adventure game and Keiji Inafune's Mega Man successor, Mighty No. 9.

GungHo Online Entertainment's Puzzle & Dragons has surpassed two million downloads in North America, which is pretty impressive but pales in comparison to previous numbers in other regions. Puzzle & Dragons is available for free on the App Store and Google Play. To date, Puzzle & Dragons has collectively reached 23 million downloads in Japan, North America and Korea alone.

Minecraft for Mac and PC will soon have native support for Twitch live streaming, according to news coming out of Minecon 2013 this weekend. Speaking at Minecon 2013 over the weekend, Twitch Marketing Vice President Matthew DiPietro confirmed that this level of functionality would be introduced 'soon'.

"Minecraft has struck a very powerful chord with the Twitch community," DiPietro said.

It looks like LEGO is going to get into the toy-game crossover business established by Activision's Skylanders and adapted by Disney's Disney Infinity game with a game of its own. Luckily for both those franchises, the game and the supporting mini-figures will be used for an online and iOS title being developed by Funcom - and not on consoles. The online game, LEGO Minifigures Online, is set to go live next summer and will use a new range of $2 toys that include an unlock code to add a virtual version of a playable character into the game.

Publisher Deep Silver announced that its open-world action game Saints Row IV is a "smashing commercial success," selling over one million units (sold through) during the game's first week on retail shelves. The company put a particular emphasis on sales of the PC version of the game, which Deep Silver claims had triple the early sales figures of last year's Saints Row: The Third. Last year Volition and the franchise were owned by THQ. Deep Silver bought the rights to the franchise and the development team as part of a THQ asset auction.