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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
JavaScript Pointer Lock (Mouse Lock) in Chrome Developer Preview
Makers of online FPS’s rejoice! Mouse Lock has popped up in the Chrome Developer Preview (so far Fullscreen only mode, but it will be available in Windowed mode in the …Read more
HTML5 Gaming: The sound of inevitability
There’s a scene in the original Matrix near the end where one of the Agents is holding Neo in front of a train and says: “Do you hear that sound …Read more
The Reality of HTML5 Game Development and making money from it
An excellent, in-depth article on the current state of HTML5 game development and its monetization potential by Richard Davey, who also runs HTML5GameDevs.com. If you are new to the HTML5 …Read more
Amazon Boosting Game Teams in Seattle, CA with Social & Mobile Focus
Amazon.com’s cloud-computing services already power some of the biggest names in online gaming. Its new Kindle Fire tablet and app storeare giving game publishers a critical new sales channel. And …Read more
Survey: 75% of game developers using or planning to use HTML5
GameZebo has details about a survey by Evans Data did of 1200 developers worldwide: Conducted by Evans Data, the survey questioned 1200 developers worldwide at the end of last year, …Read more
Mozilla Vision 2012: The Future of HTML5 and Web Technologies
The Mozilla conference is currently going on in Tokyo, Japan and Chris Heilmann, Principal HTML5 Evangelist at Mozilla has put together a blog post and presentation on the future HTML5 …Read more
BrassMonkey Launches HTML5 SDK
BrassMonkey, a company aiming to turn any browser into a game console and your phone into the controller, has launched their HTML5 SDK.
Webcam access in Opera Labs
The Opera Browser desktop team has written a blog post on how access to the WebCam is available in Opera Labs and is up to date with the getusermedia specification. …Read more
Web Browser Grand Prix: Chrome 16, Firefox 9, And Mac OS X
This isn’t directly game related, but Tom’s hardware has an extremely in-depth Browser vs. Browser analysis. Pitting the latest versions of Chrome, Safari, Firebox, IE and Opera in a race …Read more