Today is the last day you can play the original ‘FarmVille’

Posted on 31/12/2020 by Engadget

Now’s your last chance to squeak in some web game nostalgia. As Zynga warned in September, today is the last day to play the original FarmVille. The developers are shutting down the 11-year-old game after December 31st, 2020, in sync with Adobe endin...

‘Homestar Runner’ creators revive 15-year-old game right before Flash dies

Posted on 21/12/2020 by Engadget

Homestar Runner remains one of the best-known internet cartoons built on Adobe Flash, a site that regularly produced hilarious absurdist content throughout the 2000s. Of course, the era of the smartphone and iPad eventually led to a major move away f...

Adobe bids farewell to Flash Player in its final update

Posted on 09/12/2020 by Engadget

A few short weeks before we finally bid Flash adieu, Adobe has rolled out one final Flash Player update. Rather than the detailed feature changes that we typically read about in patch notes, Adobe used the opportunity to give the software a fond send...

Flash content like Homestar Runner lives on in the Internet Archive

Posted on 19/11/2020 by Engadget

Mere weeks before Adobe’s planned end of support date for Flash, the Internet Archive has come in to save everyone’s favorite mid-aughts plugin and the creative content that came out of it. Over on its website, the organization has created a new coll...

Windows 10 update removes Flash and prevents it from being reinstalled

Posted on 28/10/2020 by Engadget

Microsoft has released an optional Catalog update that removes Adobe Flash from Windows 10 and prevents it from being reinstalled, paving the way for the eventual death of the app in 2021. However, as Bleeping Computer noted, the update (KB4577586) o...

‘FarmVille’ is shutting down for good on December 31st

Posted on 28/09/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

After 11 years, FarmVille is closing its gates for good. The game will shut down on December 31st, developer Zynga announced. While most people probably don’t think of FarmVille too often anymore, the game did attract millions of users, so this chang...

Microsoft details how it will phase out Flash support in Edge after 2020

Posted on 05/09/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Microsoft is providing more detail (via Bleeping Computer) about how it will drop support for Flash in Edge to dovetail with Adobe’s plans, including some notable exceptions. As expected, Flash will be disabled by default in Edge as of December 2020....

Will QLC SSDs make hard drives extinct?

Posted on 11/08/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Flash memory has had a huge impact on the way we use computers. Flash, which powers everything from thumb drives, SD cards and the memory chip in your phone up to high performance SSDs in computers and data centers, stores information in a network of...

Flash games site Kongregate will stop accepting submissions on July 22nd

Posted on 02/07/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

If you played Flash-based games in the 2000s, you probably remember Kongregate, a website that hosted over 100,000 browser games. Developers of any experience level could upload their creations, and users could find a host of oddball options that you...

Adobe will tell you to uninstall Flash by the end of 2020

Posted on 20/06/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

It’s no secret that Adobe will end support for Flash when 2020 is over, but now it’s evident just how aggressive that cutoff will be. ZDNet reports that Adobe will prompt you to uninstall Flash “later this year” — if you don’t already know it’s time...

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