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Flash is dead, but these 2000s games hope to live on By The Washington Post By Elise Favis, Shannon Liao In mid-January, a Twitch streamer named QuackityHQ rallied his 100,000 viewers to log in to the video game "Habbo Hotel" en masse. His plan was to overwhelm the game's servers and send a message to the developers: that longtime "Habbo" fans were unhappy with recent changes after a transition from Flash to Unity, which left out core features and changed the user interface. "They're destroying their own game, and we're going to stop [them] from doing so," Quackity said during his stream, ur...

On the 31st of December 2020, Adobe began the End of Life (EOL) cycle for its web development program Flash Player. After a three-year-old announcement by the company that it would eventually block all content from running on the software, it is finally coming to an end on the 12th of January, with the company blocking all programs reliant on Flash Player completely. The reasoning for Flash's prolonged retirement is both a reaction to the dwindling usage and decline of security. In a report from Google in July 2017, it states that the frequency of Chrome users visiting a site with Flash-int...