HTML5 Rocks new site relaunch
HTML5 Rocks, a Google sponsored project aimed at pushing the web forward has relaunched with a nice new theme and some new organization and content. Check out the Gaming landing …Read more
HTML5 News
Response to: Why developing an HTML5 game is too damn risky
A blog post on ektomarch.com makes the case as to why developing a HTML5 game is too damn risky, based on the appearance and presence of browser bugs (he specifically …Read more
TechCrunch: Gamification Grows Up
TechCrunch has a post talking about how the phenomenon known as Gamification has grown up, quoting Gartner recommendation that all CIOs should have gamification on their radar and research from …Read more
AppMobi launches playMobi: HTML5 App Monetization and Development tool
Mobile HTML5 App Platform appMobi has launched an HTML5 Monetization and Socialization platform that works seamlessly across multiple platforms: iOS, Android, Facebook and straight HTML5. It uses the payment processing …Read more
Double Fine's Kickstarter Adventure
In what is a first of most likely many not-quite successful attempts to follow – the Double Fine Adventure Kickstarter project raised over 1 million dollars in a single day. …Read more
How Zynga Is Transforming Games With HTML5
ReadWriteWeb has an interview with Zynga Germany CTO Paul Bakaus about how Zynga approaches HTML5. Zynga currently has 4 HTML5-based games: Words With Friends, FarmVille Express, Zynga Poker Mobile Web …Read more
AirMech goes Native Client
What does HTML5 Game Development encompass these days? That’s a tough question when you consider Google’s Native client (NaCl) – it’s definitely not HTML/CSS/JavaScript based, but at the same time …Read more
HTML5 only: no flash on Chrome Android
Adobe released a statement confirming that since development of Flash mobile has stopped, there will be no forthcoming release of Flash on the newly-released mobile browser. This confirms what most …Read more
Study: U.S. gaming population has nearly tripled in three years
Venturebeat reports: The number of people playing video games in the U.S. has risen 241 percent since 2008, according to a new study from market research and consulting company Parks …Read more
Chrome for Android: mobile GPU accelerated Canvas FTW!
Google introduced Chrome for Android helping catch the Android browser up with iOS Safari with support for GPU acceleration of the HTML5 Canvas element along with support for requestAnimationFrame. Chrome …Read more
Lessons from Om Nom: How ‘Cut the Rope’ shows the future of Windows and the web
GeekWire has was amounts to a post-mortem interview with ZeptoLab the folks behind the well-received HTML5 version of Cut the rope. Some good quotes: Ingebretsen: The sound bite version of …Read more
Open Web Games with HTML5 & JavaScript by Rob Hawkes
Rob Hawkes, Mozilla Evangelist, and of HTML5 Rawkets fame gave a presentation at FOSDEM 2012 that covers a lot of ground on the current state of HTML5 Game Development and …Read more
Mozilla developing Web push notification system for Firefox
Mozilla is apparently developing a push notification system for Firefox to allow websites to push realtime notifications without requiring that the user keep a website open in a tab. This …Read more
HTML5 and JavaScript are where the puck is going
A nice post, along the lines of our early post “HTML5 Gaming: the sound of inevitability” talking about why HTML5 and JavaScript are the future. It starts with a Steve …Read more
HTML5 vs. Flash Inforgraphic
I almost didn’t want to post this because it’s such a one-sided viewpoint (no discussion of mobile, closed ecosystem, speed of innovation, etc), but it’s still a good graphic to …Read more
Mobile performance tests: HTML5 vs. Flash (AIR)
With iOS 5 finally getting a hardware accelerated 2D canvas and becoming a viable platform for writing mobile HTML5 games, it’s interesting to take a look at the performance of …Read more
All of ID software's open source releases are now on Github
This isn’t directly HTML5 Game Development related, but it’s extremely interesting anyway: ID Software has put all of their open-source release up on GitHub, making it dead simple to peruse …Read more
Ian Bogost of Cow Clicker: Deep Thoughts on Gaming
Gaming-world academic and game designer Ian Bogost, who rose to some level of fame for satirizing point Social Media games with his (in)famous satire Cow Clicker responds to Slashdot user …Read more