Newgrounds
American entertainment website
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| February 1 2025 | A crudely drawn image of a bird named 'normal' bird became the most reacted submission of all Takeover Tuesdays, with over 350 reactions. |
| October 8 2024 | Introduced Takeover Tuesday, allowing Newgrounds supporters to put a submission on the front page every Tuesday. |
| March 2024 | Updated the site's reporting system to enable users to report content predominantly generated by artificial intelligence (AI). |
| September 2023 | Updated the Art Portal, implementing it in the existing Project system and adding multi-author credits and multi-art support. |
| 2022 | Ruffle emulator supported most Flash content written in ActionScript 1.0 and 2.0, with only limited support for ActionScript 3.0 content, requiring users to use the Newgrounds Player for unsupported Flash content. |
| July 2021 | Tom Fulp received the Game Developers Choice Awards Pioneer Award for his contributions to Newgrounds and work with The Behemoth. |
| April 2021 | Exclusively released an update for the browser game Friday Night Funkin', causing site server overload due to high traffic. |
| 2020 | Adobe Flash Player was shut down on most browsers, leading Newgrounds to adopt the Ruffle emulator, an Adobe Flash emulator written in Rust, to continue supporting existing Flash content. |
| July 2019 | Unveiled the Newgrounds Player for Windows as a solution for playing Flash games and movies. Followed up with the Ruffle Flash emulator in August. |
| 2018 | Began encouraging contributors to submit games in HTML5 format. Experienced membership surges from Tumblr users after that platform restricted adult content. |
| August 2010 | Site reported over 2.2 million users and over 180,000 games and animated films. Time magazine ranked Newgrounds No. 39 on its list of '50 Best Websites'. |
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