Tag Archives: browser

New start-up PlayCanvas designed to be an end-to-end development and publishing solution for 3D HTML5 titles

Having launched three and a half years ago, Google’s Chrome web browser has overtaken Microsoft’s Internet Explorer for the first time to become the world’s most popular browser. That’s according to Statcounter, whose numbers show that Chrome had a higher average traffic number than IE for a seven-day period (May …

Social giant has given investors faith in games developers

Darren Jobling talks up the studio's F2P driving game

Internet could host graphic intensive titles 'within the next few years', says Tim Sweeney

Steam users can now initiate downloads and manage their games through a web browser or mobile device. A new Steam Beta client has gone live which, once installed, lets users download titles while they’re out which will become ready to play when they get home. Players have to make sure …

Ubisoft is to release a new free-to-play online instalment in its Silent Hunter series. Called Silent Hunter Online, the game can be played in a browser. It is being developed by Settlers and Anno developer Blue Byte. It will run using Adobe Flash player 11 and will be fully 3D. …

A free-to-play browser game based on the Ice Age franchise is on the way from Bigpoint. The web specialist has reached an agreement with Twentieth Century Fox to produce the game, which will feature characters and locations from the franchise’s four movies. Players will assume the role of a sloth …

Studio VP Mark Rein hoping Samaritan-like visuals will be available on browsers

More than 250m users have signed up for Bigpoint’s free-to-play PC browser games in the ten years it has been producing them. The online games giant now has over 1,000 game portals across social networks and media sites. Plus, a quarter of a million new players are drawn to its …