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Lostcast Episode 9: That's Rich

Lostcast is a Podcast about HTML5 Games put out periodically by Lost Decade Games. The most recent episode is from a couple days ago and talks with HTML5GameDevs.com writer Richard …Read more

Mozilla App Store

Mozilla is launching their HTML5 App Store project. at apps.mozillalabs.com with a summary description of: The Mozilla Labs Apps project is an initiative by Mozilla, the non-profit Firefox developer and …Read more

Game Closure Raise $12 Million

Showing that there’s serious money in HTML5 games (at least if you’re getting it from VCs) Html5 game company Game Closure has raised a $12 million round from a group …Read more

MocoSpace launching five new HTML5 games

GameZebo has a post on mobile social networking platform MocoSpace‘s launch of 5 new HTML5 games: FunPark Friends Pet Hotel Dream Vacation Crazy Gems Private Joe: Urban Warfare MocoSpace got …Read more

ImpactJS Resources and Giveaway

Andrzej at dev.end3r.com has put together a nice post on talking about the Impact.js engine (which has a book now) and is holding a giveaway of 5 Impact licenses for …Read more

O'Reilly publishes first game-engine specific HTML5 Book (on Impact.js)

O’Reilly media has published one of it’s world-renowned Animal Cover books on HTML5 Game Development titled: Introducing HTML5 Game DevelopmentDeveloping Games with Impact It’s a short book (120 pages) but …Read more

How Construct 2 helps make HTML5 work

A nice blog post on the Scirra Blog (Scirra are the makers of the Construct 2 HTML5 Game IDE) that could rightfully be called “Shooting down some of the myths …Read more

PayOne HTML5 API by PaymentOne

Mobile payment company PaymentOne has launched a new HTML5 Payment API with the goal of allow developers to create write-once cross platform games with HTML5 and but take advantage of …Read more

HTML5 Gaming – what are we talking about?

Mark from Spacemonster.co.uk has written a post titled “HTML5 Gaming – what are we talking about?” discussing the ever changing conversation from “Hey this looks like cool tech” to the …Read more

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

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