Their point is flawed. Why wouldn't people just use the desktop IE...?

 

Be curious how much Epic has made off of licensing it's Unreal 3 engine over the years. It's gotta be brazillions as I don't know how many dozens if not hundreds of games have used it - and now this.

 

Onlive, it was good knowing you.

 

I'm pretty sure Adobe missed putting a decimal at least 2 spots to the left of the "1" when giving that number above for OSX.

 

This is actually quite impressive.

 

The desktop version of Windows 8 will of course support Flash as well as OSX.

Regarding mobile, Flash Player 11 is already available for Android. I don't see Android going away for a while.

 

Installed Flash 11.x, it includes x86/x64 drivers and I've tested it using IE 9 x64 and it works, though actually feels a bit slower.

As far as Windows 8 goes, the Metro I/F only runs HTML5 however the standard I/F runs the regular IE (or other browser) with plugins so that should not be a problem on desktops/laptops.

 

You do know that IE9's 64-Bit version uses a much slower Javascript than 32-bit?

 

Except that WebGL, LLVM, and Emscripten are seriously being overlooked here. If Metro apps are HTML + JavaScript, then recompile the Unreal Engine using Clang, LLVM, and Emscripten to JavaScript! Then you could, not only build Flash-less UE games, but *offline* UE games for the Metro platform.

Ugh, if only you people read more Slashdot.