Yeah that sounded like marketing lines for kids. Fine, graphics are more powerful, but 2D is not the same as "simplistic", unless for semi-narratologist gamers, that mostly play a game for it's theme than for the gameplay: sports, modern shooters, gangster simulators... that's what's really simplistic.

Yeah... Rather condescending remark...

Hehe...yeah, it's funny. Some people assume just because a game is 2D, it's much easier to make.

Here come the FPS and their subsequent clones....wait, didn't this happen already?

Its a runner up to the worst game marketing sentence of all time, from the release of the Tribal Game Boy Advance SP

“We feel we have created a product in the Tribal Edition that reflects the sentiments of today’s youth – rebellion, attractiveness and spirituality. The new console allows gamers to express these emotions in a fun and interactive way, enabling them to communicate their individuality.”

same complaint i had about the Unity flash export, and if this follows the same route, the answer is no. Also there is no mouse lock, which means effectively no FPSes.

Yea, I doubt right click is going to be accessible right away. Unless they plan on getting rid of the universal flash menu. There will probably be other restrictions, too.

I wonder whether they will restrict parts of the material editor the way they do for Mobile. Also... what kind of memory consumption are we talking about here? I can imagine the baseline for running Unreal on Flash would be pretty hefty before you even take into account fancy particle effects and lighting.

Actually yeah, they will ... At least the ones that will matter in the future.

They've already taken a similar route, but maybe this will put a fire under the seat;
http://blogs.unity3d.com/2011/02/27/unity-flash-3d-on-the-web/

I'm not sure what you mean William? How is Flash not creating an open and free web?

I'm with Ian, can you clarify William?

Open and free web again? That doesn't make any sense.

And don't you think it's a bit fascist to insist something should die?

So with HTML, CSS, and Javascript, you can actually inspect elements of a web page and see how they were developed and see how they function. It allows people to share information on web development. Flash, does not allow that.

Like wise, the W3C, the people that define the world wide web standards, do not support it. Plug-ins in general are detrimental to an open web. They place barriers on the exchange of knowledge and distribution of content. And in the case of flash, are poorly optimized, so for example, it devours battery life because of it. That's one of the reasons why both Apple and Microsoft are dropping the flash from their newer OS's. Of course you can still install it later, but it won't be packaged in the OS.

A few other reasons why flash, and other plug ins are bad. They don't play nice with screen readers for the visually in pared. Despite what you may think, blind people can and do use the internet. You can't parce information to web bots, which can effect search results, because the content of a site is inside flash, it basically gets ignored.

Over all flash just a relic of a time when the web was made with crappy tables with no interactivity. We are beyond that now. Flash served its purpose.

Unless I'm mistaken, most of the high end websites these days hide their juiciest bits in the stylesheets, meaning that whenever you pull up the source for one of those pages, you either end up with a long string of gibberish that takes ages to sort through, or seeing all sorts of references to files that you do not have access to, the whole of which occupies about a couple of pages and tells you almost nothing.

There are also ways to grab flash based features and then analyze their naked code, which is the primary reason why it is so easy for generic websites to snatch flash games and republish them on their website without crediting or paying any dues to the original creator. If you seem interested in that, perhaps you should look it up?

Either way, your newer HTML features are trying to supplant flash's functions, but who's to say they aren't already too late?