Flash games were an essential part of the early 2000s gaming experience, especially for young gamers. With computers becoming an important part of home entertainment and school classrooms, players ...

Back in 2008, anyone with a decent computer and web browser could access hundreds of games instantly. The accessibility of Flash as a programming platform revolutionized the internet, and with ...

In 2017, Adobe announced that Flash would no longer be supported as of December 31st, 2020. With the software's discontinuation, tens of thousands of games and animations made in Flash would be lost ...

The Flash platform—that thing Adobe is always asking for you to update—is on life support. True, Adobe last released an update of their Flash Player less than a month ago, fixing the latest round of ...

For me, the internet has always been tied to videogames. It's not quite so simple, of course, but using the internet has always been an inescapable part of the medium—to find and discuss them, and to ...

There were a lot of passing fads at my school. We had skipping ropes, yo-yos, Tamagotchis, the weird alien goo things that apparently got pregnant if you put them in the freezer, and one year we got ...

Adobe is pulling the plug on Flash support at the end of 2020. And the company would be condemning thousands of Flash games to death too, if it wasn’t for BlueMaxima. The organisation’s ‘Flashpoint’ ...

Adobe revealed in 2017 it would no longer be supporting Flash by the end of this year– which leaves the many stray Flash games out there (and those who play them) high and dry, right? There’s actually ...

A modder and Nintendo fan by the name of Skelux has launched a campaign to preserve Nintendo’s forgotten Flash game output. Yes, Nintendo once made flash games. Back when the internet was younger, ...

Christine Mendoza is a freelance writer from Canada with an avid love for video games and anime. Formerly an indie game reviewer, Christine enjoys not only playing video games but writing about what ...