The imminent end of the Flash era means the end for some Facebook gaming services, too. The social network announced that it will support Gameroom for only a year. Even earlier, the ability to launch new web games on Facebook will disappear.

A new, 76th version of the Google Chrome browser has been released. One of the unpleasant, but long-awaited innovations turned out to be blocking Flash elements by default.

How a converter from Flash to HTML5 called IceStone was created and why it was decided to launch a full—fledged multiplatform publishing house on its basis, – said Igor Chavychalov, who holds the post of executive producer of the company.

Today, on November 30, the Odnoklassniki social network announced that from January 1, 2019, it will no longer accept Flash projects for publication. Flash games available on the platform will remain available, but will no longer receive a feature.

On February 6, the Odnoklassniki social network announced the release of the OK Games application. It allows you to run web games from the platform library on the desktop. Including projects made using Flash technology, which is not supported by default by Chrome, Mozilla and Opera browsers.

Support for the Flash multimedia platform will last until the end of 2020, Adobe reports.

Google is discussing the possibility of stopping Flash playback by default. If the company does this, any Flash content before playback will ask the user if he gives permission for this. We talked to market experts about how this could affect the social gaming segment.

Search giant Google is thinking about the possibility to stop playing Flash by default in Google Chrome.

Yesterday, April 24, it became known that Unity no longer plans to support Flash. App2Top reflects on the consequences of this step.   

Mochi Media flash gaming service in cooperation with Adobe and FlashGameLicense.com conducted a survey of Flash game developers. As a result, it turned out that many of them have already switched to mobile “rails”, but have not figured out marketing and monetization.

Yesterday, Gree introduced an open source tool that allows you to develop Unity and HTML5 applications with Flash content. 

Startup Agawi announced the conclusion of an agreement with Microsoft Corporation. According to it, the game streaming service from Agawi will be available on all Windows 8 devices (including tablets). 

The latest version of the Scaleform program from Autodesk makes it easy to port games written in flash to mobile platforms.

The startup PlayPhone from San Jose (California), which created a mobile gaming social network of the same name, shared with Venturebeat some interesting figures reflecting the results of its activities since January of this year.Actually, the official launch of the PlayPhone SGN (Social Gaming Network) network, which supports devices based on iOS, Android and Windows Phone, took place in mid-December 2011.