Adobe is killing Adobe Animate, the Flash animation tool that defined the look of early web games

Animate's distinctive vector animation tools will no longer be available for purchase as of March.
GameSpot

Adobe Is Killing A Popular Animation And Game Development Program

Adobe Animate is being shuttered in March, and creators are fuming.
CNET

The death of Adobe's Flash is lingering, not sudden

Widely used technologies take a long time to fade. Adobe's move this week to rename Flash Professional is only one nail in its coffin. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote ...
CNET

Adobe resurrects Flash-to-iPhone app tool

Apple's loosened developer restrictions reopen the door for Adobe's Packager for iPhone tool, and Adobe chose to walk back through. Flash still faces challenges, though. Stephen Shankland worked at ...
The Next Web

Adobe is renaming its beleaguered Flash animation tool for 2016

In the wake of major backlash to its Flash interactive media format, Adobe is rebranding the authoring tool as Animate CC. The company will launch the latest version early next year. As part of ...
The Daily Dot

Still using Flash in Chrome? It’s time to prepare for the end

Adobe Flash had a more than 20-year run as a major piece of multimedia software. But that is coming to an end. Browsers like Google Chrome are unplugging Flash. Google announced in 2017 that over the ...