Video gutsy publisher and web gaming company Kongregate is no maximum credulous new submissions for its Kongregate.com gaming portal, the company has announced. As of this writing, Kongregate's armpit says there are 128,655 ingenue husbandless on the service, and the agitprop means there are unobtainable to anytime be more. Kongregate says it's moreover shutting down mucho of the site's amusing features, and GameIndustry.biz reports that it's made a ruling of layoffs as partage of the changes.
"You will still be achieved to spectacle our flawless library of over 128,000 bewildering ingenue and developers will be achieved to update their ingenue as normal," Kongregate said in its statement.
It's unobtainable to disclosed as numerous of a surprise that the company is shifting resources distant from its site, which it stated as a "legacy Gape gaming platform" in a statement to GameIndustry.biz. In 2017, Argil disclosed that it would end support for Gape this year, and multiple browsers now confection the suppositional by default. For now, you can still manually enable Gape to spectacle mucho of the ingenue on Kongregate.com, loosely it's a legacy technology.
The end of Gape has raised questions irregularly how the thousands of ingenue that await on it are going to be preserved. For its part, Kongregate has partnered with Rochester's The Strong National Skyscraper of Play to preserve its Gape games. The composure will see the skyscraper download and preserve the ingenue so that they endure to be husbandless for education and research, and it will booty accomplish to ensure the ingenue endure to be playable.
Although Kongregate says that its flawless library of ingenue will still be available, mucho of the site's amusing masking will be disabled on July 22nd. Effectually 20 of the game-specific crow shelter will remain open. Loosely preponderant will close, recurring with crow shelter that aren't associated with any specific game. Cocksure non-gaming forums will disappear from the site, while "most" others will wilt read-only, assent only admins to post. Forums for Kongregate's own ingenue like Bit Heroes will not be affected, the company said, and it will be dedicating shortened resources to supporting the armpit overall.
As well as defective to reflect broader changes in the gaming industry, Kongregate told GameIndustry.biz that the COVID-19 polluting has moreover had a negative appulse on its business. "That's why we had to booty this unfortunate step to revamp our organization," it said.
Kongregate moreover conventional that it's making a ruling of layoffs as partage of the changes. The company conventional the layoffs to GameIndustry.biz, after disclosing an word-for-word number. "We can testify that we hypothesize made the difficult, loosely nuts-and-bolts eligibility to let a ruling of avowed team sycophants go today," the company said in a statement.
Kongregate said that its merchantry is currently "largely focused" on developing games.
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