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Impact.js creator's Letter to John Carmack

After watching the Quakecon 2012 keynote by Game-dev god John Carmack, Impact.js creator Dominic Szablewski felt like responding to John’s views on WebGL and JavaScript with a letter. He’s posted …Read more

Turbulenz: Quake 4 in the browser with WebGL

Turbulenz is showing off some very cool stuff using their WebGL powered engine. Geek.com has a write-up on the details of the engine running Quake 4 assets in the browser …Read more

PlayCanvas launches with private Engine Beta

A couple of Game industry veterans are launching a new game engine called PlayCanvas. It’s an engine aimed at 3D games using HTML5 and WebGL, with a focus on providing …Read more

Book Launch Contest: Professional Mobile HTML5 Game Development

Google I/O Recap from a HTML5 Game Developer perspective

With Google I/O wrapping up today, I thought it a good time for a wrap up post of what the takeaways about where HTML5, and particularly HTML5 Game Development is …Read more

Wooga releases mobile HTML5 Game as open-source

Social game developer Wooga has released their HTML5 Mobile social game Pocket Island as open-source. You can check-out the details on their labs page and view the source on GitHub …Read more

iOS 6 Mobile Safari – HTML5 Game Developer upgrades

A nice write-up on what HTML5 Devs can expect from iOS 6. Big ones for HTML5 game development: Web Inspect/Remote debugging (Yay!), Web Audio API, Full Screen view in Landscape …Read more

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appMobi releases "Boom Town" – massively cross-platform HTML5 Game

appMobi has released it’s first massively cross-platform (9 devices, including Facebook and Chrome!) with a single Impact.js powered codebase. See more details and check out the video below. Good to …Read more

Chomebox – the game console of the future?

Google has released the Chromebox, as $329 “Web Browser in a box” small form-factor computer built by Samsung that boasts an Intel Core Processor and 4GB of ram. If it …Read more

Chromebox – the game console of the future?

Google has released the Chromebox, as $329 “Web Browser in a box” small form-factor computer built by Samsung that boasts an Intel Core Processor and 4GB of ram. If it …Read more

Game Closure Poaches Zynga’s CTO Of Mobile To Lead HTML5 Game Development

TechCrunch is reporting that Laurent Desegur has been drawn away from social gaming powerhouse Zynga to join HTML5 Game startup Game Clojure. Sounds like that whole HTML5-game-thing has legs Read …Read more

The Great HTML5 Mobile Gaming Performance Comparison

This Post from Scirra, the makers of Construct 2, is liquid gold for HTML5 Game Developers targeting mobile (which is probably all of em) – it shows the performance of …Read more

The king is dead, long live the king. According to statcounter.com, last week Chrome passed IE as the most popular browser in the world. And there was much rejoicing in …Read more

Mozilla Labs releases Minimalist HTML5 Game Template

Mozilla Labs has released a barebones HTML5 Game Template that helps developers get started faster and deploy quicker. It’s not game-engine specific, but includes dependency management via volo to pull …Read more

HTML5 Kickstarter Game Ron Paul: Road to REVOLution

Showing that the Kickstarter game trend has some legs outside of funding established developers making throwback games, a project called “Ron Paul: Road to REVOLution,” built in HTML5 garnered over …Read more

BuildNewGames.com launches

A Microsoft sponsored site focused on building games for the open web called BuildNewGames.com has launched. Built by Boston JavaScript shop Bocoup and stocked with in-depth articles on various HTML5 …Read more

Canvas v5 API Additions

While not in any sort of sexy blog-post format, Ian Hickson has posted a list of additions to the Canvas V5 API on the whatwtg mailing list. Some nice looking …Read more

Chrome 18: Canvas2D GPU-acceleration + WebGL SwiftShader

The latest stable release of Google Chrome, Chrome 18 includes some change that should make HTML5 Game Developers happy. It enabled GPU-acceleration on Canvas2D on supported Windows and Mac computers. …Read more