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Unity announced today that it will stop selling Flash deployment licenses but will continue support for Flash customer for the rest of the current cycle.

The news was posted on the Unity blog, courtesy of Shack News, and states the decision is due to Adobe not being committed to future Flash development, saying “We don’t see Adobe being firmly committed to the future development of Flash. This is evidenced by the cancellation of Flash Player Next, the instability of recent Flash Player versions and by Adobe’s workforce moving on to work on other projects. By introducing, and then abandoning, a revenue sharing model, Adobe eroded developers’ (and our) trust in Flash as a dependable, continuously improving platform.”

Adding to that, Unity states that its own Unity Web Player has seen unprecedented growth in recent months, already installed on over 200M computers and by 1/3 of all Facebook gamers.

Epic brought its latest Flash-based Unreal Engine demos to GDC, and has some seriously lofty goals for the browser tech.

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“I can’t blame you if you couldn’t imagine a Facebook game at the level of Unreal Tournament 3 before today. We’re not just talking about triple-A console quality on the web, we’re actually showing it onscreen, in a web browser, playing inside Flash. We chose as our demo a fully playable level from Unreal Tournament 3, and it turned out to look even better than the version we shipped on Xbox 360 and PS3, with improvements like global illumination, better shadows, and god rays.” – Epic’s Mark Rein to Develop regarding Tim Sweeney’s Adobe MAX 2011 demo of UT3 running in Flash Player 11.

It looks as though PlayStation Vita’s browser won’t support Flash at launch, according to a Famitsu report.

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Epic’s Tim Sweeney announced during Adobe MAX 2011 today that Unreal Engine 3 now runs inside Flash Player 11. To demonstrate how it works, he demoed Unreal Tournament 3 running in Adobe’s latest update which was released yesterday. This means browser games using UR3 can provide the player with a “real” 3D experience. This will also make it easier to convert browser-based games into apps for mobile devices. The big thing, will be Facebook games: since these are browser-based games, using UR3, you may eventually find that your farm or zoo games will finally start looking more like a PC or console title. Check out shots of UT3 running in Flash below.

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Beta testers of quirky cartoon MMO Glitch: The inevitable has happened. Developer Tiny Speck has pulled the plug and reset everybody’s progress, losing all of your belongings, hard-earned skills, currants and achievements. But this is a good thing, because it means the game is now that much closer to launch!

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The latest in Project Cafe rumors have the console hitting the market minus a hard drive, and instead supporting 8GB of onboard flash-based memory.

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A survey has revealed that over half of responding flash developers are interested in making or porting games for Android.

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Another day and more Kinect hacks. This time it’s all about Flash and Silverlight.

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Someone’s done an animation based on a review of someone’s Flash RPG. It’s brilliant. That’s it. Watch it.

EA 2D has announced the development of Dragon Age: Journeys, a Flash game obviously based on BioWare’s upcoming RPG.

“At EA 2D it is our mission to create blockbusters for the browser; some will be original games created by our teams and some will be games within other EA franchises, such as Dragon Age Journeys,” said producer Ethan Levy.

“We have some big plans for Journeys. The first piece that we are currently building is a 3 chapter, single player, tactical RPG delivered in Flash. Right now we’re hard at work finishing the first chapter, Dragon Age Journeys: The Deep Roads. The game will introduce you to the dwarven city of Orzammar and the Deep Roads surrounding it where the dwarves face a persistent threat from the darkspawn hordes.”

A release date and more information is expected in the coming weeks.

Via VideoGamer.

PopCap has released a free flash version of Plants vs Zombies.

The Flash version of Plants vs. Zombies includes:

• Three available game modes (Adventure, Endless Survival, Vasebreaker)
• 14 levels of Adventure mode
• A zombie not found in the PC version
• Six zombie types and 12 plants with which to stop them
• Graphics and gameplay faithful to the PC version
• Unlike most of our web based games, PvZ streams in the music of the PC version as you play
• Enhanced performance features of Flash 10

Sounds pretty damn awesome to us. Play it here.

Thanks, Evil Avatar.

Sony’s released Firmware 2.53 for PS3: we’re downloading as we type.

The update caused a bit of a kerfuffle last week with what appears to have been an erroneous post from SCEA and some good old gun-jumping from the internet, but it’s there now. So relax.

The software gives full-screen Flash support to your machine, and “Live movie (using RTMP format) playability,” according to this US PS Blog post.