Properly, right here’s one thing sudden: Kong Studios is again. The OG Gorillaz Flash-powered website from the late ’90s was a well-liked vacation spot for followers and options mini-games, music, and extra. And now you possibly can return to an up to date and trendy model of Kong Studios.
Kong Studios first launched in 1998 and was the good place for followers of the fictional animated band. I ought to know, I used to go to it many, a few years in the past and struggled to apply it to my dial-up connection. The site was powered by Flash (RIP), and over time following its launch, it grew greater and greater, including extra content material to seek out, digital rooms to discover, songs to jam out to, and many enjoyable Easter eggs for followers. Then in 2008, after a decade of help, the location was closed and forgotten. Nevertheless, that each one modified immediately as Kong Studios is operational as soon as extra.
On September 10, Gorillaz released a new updated version of Kong Studios that incorporates a Doom-like first-person shooter expertise the place gamers should combat off the zombie apes as seen within the band’s video for “Clint Eastwood.” You may skip that and simply enter Kong Studios immediately, and should you do, you’ll discover a a lot higher-res model of the nostalgic website. There’s loads to click on on and discover within the foyer of the place, and Gorillaz promise that extra rooms and content material might be added to Kong Studios sooner or later.
“Kong Studios is the house of Gorillaz and a gamified fan expertise the place you possibly can discover the rooms and areas of 2D, Murdoc, Noodle and Russel,” defined Gorillaz on the location’s FAQ page. “It’s additionally a spot to go to seek out out every thing you wish to learn about Gorillaz, first.”
I’m very completely satisfied to see Kong Studios return, and never simply because I’m a giant Gorillaz fan. During the last decade or so, we’ve seen an increasing number of of the web and the tradition round it transfer from distinct locations to giant social media networks and apps. Forums are closing. Fan sites are dying. As an alternative, everybody and each model is simply utilizing Fb, Instagram, Discord, and TikTok to work together with followers and different individuals. And whereas that’s high quality, it isn’t as cool because the outdated web, the place each band and particular person had their very own website. Or the place boards had been managed immediately by the businesses or teams themselves.
The outdated web was a weirder, wackier, and sometimes extra fascinating period that I miss. Whereas Kong Studios received’t convey that again by itself, it’s nice to see a band as common as Gorillaz notice that having your individual place on the internet could be beneficial in 2025 as apps and networks get stuffed an increasing number of with AI and bots.
Anyway, right here’s a walkthrough of the outdated Kong Studios so you possibly can see what they took from us.
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