∞ Flash Player 11 is 'next gen game console,' says Adobe

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Adobe plans to roll out Flash Player 11 and AIR 3 in October, according to a new blog post from Adobe’s Flash product manager Tom Nguyen.

Integral to the new Flash release is “Stage 3D,” a new hardware-accelerated 3D graphics architecture that delivers radically improved 3D graphics performance compared with Flash 10 – on the order of 1000 times improved, according to Nguyen.

“Additionally, these releases deliver new features to support theater-quality HD video, native 64-bit optimizations, high-quality HD video conferencing, and a powerful, flexible architecture for leveraging native device and platform capabilities,” said Nguyen.

Stage 3D Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) enable developers to use the graphics processors on a wide variety of computers, with features including dynamic audio, low-latency multiplayer networking, 1080P video playback, voice chat and other capabilities.

Nguyen says to expect the first crop of Flash 11-optimized games to arrive later this year and early in 2012.


  • Steven Fisher

    Reality —-> Adobe
    Reality —————–> Adobe
    Reality —————————————-> Adobe

  • http://robulack.wordpress.com/ Andrew Robulack

    Sort of demonstrates how lackadaisical Adobe’s been about this stuff to date, doesn’t it?

  • http://www.mike-pulsifer.org/ WVMikeP

    An undocumented free feature within Flash 11 is the soul-sucking sound of your computer’s fan spinning itself to an untimely death.

  • Nate

    Ah, so the NEXT version of Flash will be the good one. Got it.

    • http://www.facebook.com/DarthNicklas Nicklas Lind

      Awesome :D

  • http://twitter.com/Moeskido Moeskido

    “Stage 3D: It really won’t suck this time. We Promise.™”

    Flash on my television? Not bloody likely.

  • http://twitter.com/JustinD Justin D

    what the hell is Flash?

  • John David

    RIM, meet Adobe’s Flash team.

    Adobe’s Flash team, meet RIM.

    Knock yourselves out fellas!

  • Anonymous

    Oh, how wrong they are. HTML5 will win.

  • http://mangochut.net/ mangochutney

    ♫ Don’t talk, just ship… ♫

    OR

    ♫ FLASH! AH-ah! Saviour of the universe! ♫

    • Vamsmack

      Don’t sing it, bring it?

      • http://mangochut.net/ mangochutney

        Kinda like that :)

  • Anonymous

    Does it come with a fan kit, or do you have to purchase one separately?