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Yahoo Games Has Passed Away at Just 1. Yahoo Games, the once- hopping online game hub best known for its simulacrum of classic board and card games, is shutting down. The news was buried amidst major changes for the company: As we reported Tuesday, Yahoo will lay off roughly 1. TV efforts. Looking at it now, Yahoo Games is a bevy of free- to- play, branded online games, not terribly different in design or presentation from what you’d find in the free section of the App Store or Google Play. It wasn’t always that way.
From 1. 99. 8, when Yahoo launched Yahoo Games after acquiring a site called Games Domain, until 2. That may not seem like much now, but at the time it was pioneering, a bustling portal for casual games before we called them that. The service expanded through the last decade, roping in more complex, ad- supported titles. Venture Beat reported in 2. Its decline was inevitable as the niche it filled moved to the mobile market, and as Yahoo itself became less central to the modern internet.
Now, Yahoo Games is largely forgotten, though it still holds some gems and has a small but active gaming journalism presence that reviewed. X- COM 2 just three days ago.
In its heyday, though, Yahoo Games was a easily accessible, surprisingly welcoming and exceedingly popular place to play. I remember in the early 2. NES, spend hours on it, playing pick- up games of spades and befriending Internet strangers in the attached chat rooms.
I used it to hone, and subsequently give up on, my chess skills. The folks on Yahoo were pretty good, so much so that it was considered, for a time, one of the best places to play chess on the Internet. CORRECTION: This article, and its headline, originally claimed that Yahoo Games had existed for 1. In fact, it was acquired in 1. March. Go Back to Top. Skip To: Start of Article.