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Free games hub Kongregate is no longer accepting new submissionsSorry, no more submissions
Sorry, no more submissions
It’s been a long time coming, but Adobe Flash’s drawn-out death spiral is coming to a close. This week, free browser game portalKongregateannounced that it’ll no longer be accepting new submissions to the site, laying off several staff members as it pivots entirely towards developing and publishing games. While everything currently hosted on the site will remain there for the foreseeable, they’re the last games Kongregate will ever host.
End of an era, that.
For a while now, Kongregate has been moving away from web game hosting in favour of publishing, going so fas as to launchlaunching their own Kartridge storefrontback in 2017. This week, theKongregate announcedthat their days of hosting free browser games have come to an end. Effective immediately, the site will no longer be accepting new game submissions.
“As most of you know, Kongregate.com was first created in 2006,” Kongregate wrote in aforum announcement this week. “During the intervening years, Kongregate as a company has grown and adjusted with those industry-wide changes. Today our business is largely focused on developing games and flash, as you are aware, is slowly going away. That means that Kongregate.com will need to evolve as well.”
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“Over the last few years, we have been transitioning our focus to better align with our strengths and the gaming industry as a whole. This year has been especially difficult for us, and the rest of the world, with COVID 19 affecting our business in a negative way and changing the overall games market. That’s why we had to take this unfortunate step to reshape our organization.”
But Kongregate probably won’t be the last to call time on hosting free browser games. For now, it’s yet another nail in the coffin of a scene that’s only becoming more inaccessible with time.
