Facebook opened up a new gaming platform with Instant Games for Messenger in November. And Blackstorm Labs seized the chance to launch its own HTML5-based title called EverWing. The creators of ...

GameSnacks is broadening the launch of its HTML5 gaming platform to bring lightweight, casual games to places where people have slow networks and low-end devices. The GameSnacks team is part of Google ...

About a year ago, Lost Decade Games, an early-stage game development startup based in Palo Alto, entered Boing Boing’s “Games Inspired By Music Contest”. The created a game called “Onslaught! Arena”, ...

Ever get a hankering for some old-school Atari? Now you can play eight classic video games in any HTML5 Web browser, even on touch-screen smartphones and tablets. Christopher MacManus Crave ...

Hamburg-based Minit Games has emerged from stealth with $2 million in preseed funding to support its expansion and accelerate ...

A year ago, Google’s Area 120 incubator launched an HTML5 gaming platform to “test whether lightweight, casual games would resonate with people who use the internet via low memory devices on 2G and 3G ...

This year marks the 40th anniversary of Atari releasing its first arcade game. The name of that game was Pong, and although the gameplay consisted of nothing more than two paddles moved up and down to ...

Could you build an online game using just HTML, CSS and JavaScript? Absolutely! And this book might just help you make that happen. The starting point of Build an HTML5 Game: A Developer’s Guide with ...

The original Command and Conquer game has been turned into an HTML5 game, playable in the browser. It’s buggy and a bit awkward, but it’ll still put smiles on retro gaming fans’ faces. The original ...

Smartphones are becoming even more powerful gaming machines as time goes on, with the latest devices capable of pushing some incredible graphics on a pocket-sized device. But what if you’ve got an old ...