November 8, 2021 Easy Play Zynga announces TikTok-exclusive music dance game Disco Loco 3D Now entering soft launch
October 8, 2021 Ballistic For Blockchain OP Games raises $8.6 million to combine blockchain, NFTs and DAOs Plans to support 500 games by end of 2022
August 10, 2021 Casual Acquisition Softgames sells off web business to Azerion Azerion will be responsible for publishing all current and future web-based games released by Softgames
June 4, 2021 Growing Space Quicksave Interactive raises $1.3 million to scale its HTML5 games Konvoy Ventures led the round
September 18, 2020 Wechat Mini Games Unprecedented growth in China's HTML5 games market: WeChat Mini Game revenue up 18% Yodo1 explores the growing world of WeChat Mini Games
July 29, 2020 Html5 Games HTML5 games: a new way to enter the China market Yodo1 explores the benefits of developing for HTML5
July 14, 2020 Getting Classic Azerion teams up with Atari to bring five classic games to browsers "We are thrilled to bring these immensely popular games to a new generation of players"
February 21, 2020 Google Gamesnacks Google launches hypercasual HTML5 platform GameSnacks Focusing on SEA region through partnership with Gojek
January 20, 2020 Good, Bad, Future Quicksave on the good, the bad, and the future on instant gaming CEO Elina Arponen talks download sizes, messenger bots, and a lack of market data
January 20, 2020 Instant Gaming Facebook Gaming on optimising Instant Games design Joy Marianowicz discusses the "super powers" Instant Games have that other platforms don't
January 16, 2020 Cocos Play Cocos launches Cocos Play for easy integration of HTML5 game centres Launch your own mini-game centre in whatever app you please
June 6, 2019 Dev Contest Behind a game jam: A platform perspective How Gamee hosted its first game jam
October 16, 2018 Social At Game Closure the future of gaming is social The studio's Battle Cats Galaxy and Fishing Star QUICK are currently on the LINE QUICK GAME platform
July 18, 2018 Messenger Gaming HTML5 and chat app games specialist FRVR secures $3 million investment CEO Brian Meidell labels chat app platforms "the next paradigm shift" in game distribution and content discovery
May 4, 2018 Streaming Ads Synative’s HTML5 cloud tech offers a new streamable approach to playable ads Founder Ken Liu on an interactive way to acquire users
March 26, 2018 New Games Platform? Snapchat snaps up UK cloud-based HTML5 game engine PlayCanvas Could it be eyeing up instant games for the platform?
March 19, 2018 Good Gamee Gamee teams up with Viber to bring social gaming to 1 billion users The new partnership will see over 70 of Gamee’s titles brought to Viber’s 1 billion users
February 6, 2018 Chat App Revolution "Playing games on messaging platforms will definitely become as ubiquitous as playing downloadable apps" Coolgames CEO Laurens Rutten on developing HTML5 titles for chat apps
February 2, 2018 Crystal Ball What’s next for mobile games? Challenges and opportunities Hot from PGC London 2018
November 30, 2017 Line 'em Up CoolGames brings classic puzzle game Tetris to Facebook's Instant Games platform All part of its AAA Instant Games strategy
November 16, 2017 You Sunk My Battleship CoolGames partners with Hasbro to bring Battleship to Facebook Instant Games Sink the battleships of both friends and strangers
September 19, 2017 Gone In A Flash Developers start your engines: The race to transition your game off Flash has officially begun FlowPlay CTO Doug Pearson on how to leave Flash behind
September 5, 2017 To The Moon Gamee partners with NASA for Voyager game following successful Mars Rover title Previous game had over 50 million plays
August 21, 2017 Ok Vk Russian social network VKontakte launches mobile-based HTML5 platform Direct Games New service is similar to Facebook Instant Games
August 21, 2017 Kamagames Interview KamaGames on why it's developing for HTML5 and VK's new Direct Games platform Chief Marketing and Commercial Officer Daniel Kashti discusses the opportunities that await with HTML5 and social networks
July 26, 2017 Flash In The Pan Adobe admits defeat and plans to end-of-life Flash by 2020 Hasn't been used on mobile for five years
July 19, 2017 Yahoo Game Plus Yahoo Japan launches HTML5 and cloud-based browser games platform Game Plus 52 companies already signed up to provide titles for the platform
July 18, 2017 Chatterbots How social chatbots are creating a new wave of casual gamers Gamee's Bozena Rezab on the opportunities for developers and brands
June 9, 2017 Bandai Docomo Partnership Bandai Namco Europe partners with Docomo Digital to push into emerging mobile markets New HTML5 games being developed for the venture
June 2, 2017 Zennies To The Max HTML5 gaming platform ZENIgames launches service with its own blockchain cryptocurrency Players earn Zennies which can be spent on IAPs and playing games
May 26, 2017 Partners In Html5 Bandai Namco and Drecom invest $2.1 million in new HTML5 mobile game studio BXD Working on Bandai Namco IP with a Spring 2018 launch date
May 18, 2017 Words With Zynga Zynga Words With Friends GM on chat app games: "The opportunity is massive" Zynga's Vaibhav Sahgal and Mark Kantor discuss bringinng Words With Friends to Instant Games
May 11, 2017 Watch This Space How Gamee aims to launch its snackable, shareable HTML5 games everywhere at once From Instant Games to its own app, Gamee wants games to go viral
May 2, 2017 Sending A Message Facebook Instant Games for Messenger rolls out worldwide with new features Words With Friends to offer turn-based play and spectating
April 28, 2017 Instant Storm Blackstorm Labs on how game bots and rich gameplay features are evolving Facebook Instant Games Co-founder Ernestine Fu reflects on F8
April 27, 2017 Next Big Thing? Spil CEO on Facebook Instant Games: “We think it has the potential to be a massively significant gaming platform” Tung Nguyen-Khac talks up the platform's potential
April 20, 2017 Future Forecast The future of HTML5 as the next big gaming platform WiMi5 CEO Raul Otaolea looks at what's in store for web games across devices
April 4, 2017 Disrupting The Market? Rakuten and Blackstorm want to disrupt Japan's mobile industry with launch of HTML5 social game platform RGames Post-app store technology outfit teams up with Japanese ecommerce giant
March 31, 2017 Future Today Are we already in the HTML5 games Plateau of Productivity? WiMi5 CEO Raul Otaolea analyses the history of HTML5, and where it sits today
March 29, 2017 Gamee Investment Social gaming platform Gamee raises $2.15 million Initial Capital and Credo Ventures lead the way
March 23, 2017 Apps Become Platforms Are we heading for a post-app store future? Blackstorm's Michael Carter and Ernestine Fu on the rise of the super apps
March 22, 2017 Instant Hit Users play EverWing on Facebook Instant Games for an average of one hour per day Blackstorm Labs CEO Michael Carter on early successes in post-app store gaming
February 14, 2017 Wooga Interview Wooga CEO's advice to founders: Prepare to unlearn what you know Jens Begemann talks at Casual Connect Berlin about his 30 years of making games
December 13, 2016 Big Valiant Big Viking partners with indie comic publisher Valiant Entertainment on five-year HTML5 game deal Shadowman making a comeback
December 8, 2016 Story Time Legendary Games brings StoryToys children's game to Japan's HTML5 kid's platform dkids The Very Hungry Caterpillar proves to be a hit
December 8, 2016 Mobile Mavens How big an impact will Facebook Instant Games have on mobile gaming? Mobile Mavens discuss the HTML5-powered Messenger platform
December 6, 2016 Business Deals Deal Tracker: Big money deals in China, HTML5, chat apps and fashion games in November 2016 37 Interactive splashes nearly $200 million on acquisitions