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”, ...

Middleware firm YoYo Games is finalising a HTML5 version of its highly accessible Game Maker editor. Game Maker – already available for PC, PSP, Mac, Android and iOS – allows aspiring developers to ...

Booty5 is a free open source HTML5 game engine written using JavaScript. A full game editor / game maker / Flash style animation editor is also available from the Booty5 website. Booty5’s current set ...

Phaser is a fast, free, and fun open source HTML5 game framework that offers WebGL and Canvas rendering across desktop and mobile web browsers. Games can be compiled ...

Game tech platform Playgama has raised $3 million to transform the web gaming market for HTML5 developers. The company plans to simplify game distribution with a "master key" approach, allowing ...

Support for the Web Audio API has been added offering better control over audio playback. Using it is s simple case of ticking support for it in the projects properties (on by default).

Disney has acquired an HTML5 gaming engine startup called Rocket Pack, based out of Helsinki, Finalnd. A Disney spokesperson told us today, exclusively: “We can confirm that The Walt Disney Company ...