Bored this Monday lunchtime? Check out Drop, the new free-to-play browser game from Notch, the creator of the epic Minecraft. It's like Mavis Beacon slammed into Super Hexagon. Addictive and useful. It's practically, err, educational. Read More >>
Featured comment by FRISH:
"65 was my best after a new mins. Can only semi touch type but not really. It got easier when I realised they were all words :D" More »
Yo ho yo ho, a pirate's life for me. And for you! And for everyone! Because downloading BitTorrent files just got a lot easier. BitTorrent is finally pushing its torrenting browser plug-in, BitTorrent Surf, to beta for you to try. That means you don't have to deal with pesky desktop clients, your browser (Chrome or Firefox) effectively becomes the only BitTorrent client you need. Read More >>
EU competition police have handed Microsoft an enormous £480m fine, after the software giant admitted that a "technical error" saw new Windows machines arriving without the option to choose a default web browser. Read More >>
Featured comment by captainparty:
"They don't have a monopoly on computers, which Microsoft did 10 years ago. Its european competition regulations, they owned the market and by shipping..." More »
It's Friday, it's kind of cold, yet sunny outside, and you sure as hell don't want to be stuck in work. But if you have to be physically present at your desk, you could do so much worse than playing a whole bunch of Nintendo classics like Super Mario World, Super Mario Kart, Zelda, Bomberman, and Street Fighter,free andright in your browser. Read More >>
Like living on the bleeding edge? Now you can run the Chrome beta channel on your Android phone, just like your desktop. Quicker, with all the new features, and even faster iteration; what's not to love? Oh yeah, bugs. Read More >>
Featured comment by zerobob:
"Yeah I know, I've been using Dolphin for well over 2 years now. My point was that using Dolphin on my HTC Desire the URL bar was hidden automatically,..." More »
Pyongyang Racer is a browser-based driving game developed in North Korea, giving us curious westerners a chance to drive around the odd landmarks of the secretive state's capital city. Read More >>
Featured comment by otaviokz:
"Gary,
Did you, by any chance, did some homework and realised that Koryo is a Beijing based company and therefore the game isn't a "North Korea's ga..." More »
If anyone had any doubts that the new WebGL and HTML5 technologies could support real, console or desktop-quality gaming, this amazing demo should put that to rest. What you're looking at here is one entire level from Quake 4 rendered purely in the browser -- no plugins, flash or anything, just Javascript, WebGL and Web Audio. This is the future of gaming. Read More >>
Featured comment by N3rd:
"There isn't much to understand about a WebGL plugin, but this isn't about that. I'm sure that they can make it work on iOS.
What they can't do, ho..." More »
Though torrenting files has been around forever, there has always been a relatively high barrier of entry that kept normal people from diving in. Not anymore. BitTorrent just announced Torque, a new JavaScript interface that'll let you download BitTorrent files right from your browser. It's going to be so easy now. Read More >>
Featured comment by GizReader:
"That's awesome! I think you may lose anonymity if using browser. Certainly makes downloaders happy but I'm not sure how shared hosting works. It got t..." More »
Now you can play with mountains of Lego, all day while at work, and you don't even have to tidy up afterwards. Lego have partnered up with Google Chrome to create a Lego sandbox virtual world in a web browser, where you can build to your heart's content. Read More >>
Featured comment by Ozmaydius:
"Yeah laughing their asses of at the company that is making their lego product.
http://aboutus.lego.com/en/news-room/2012/february/lego-minecraft-mi..." More »
If you're used to freely choosing which browser you use in Windows, brace yourself: Mozilla is claiming that Microsoft is planning to limit user choice for browsers on tablets running Windows 8. Read More >>
Featured comment by scaramoosh:
"Why do I want Windows tablets? So I can have Windows on a Tablet.
Windows 8 just sounds like Microsoft's version of IOS on tablet and I don't want ..." More »
The days are numbered for those rubbishy Flash-based games that litter the time-waster game space. We’ve already seen Quake III Arena play in your browser, but that needed a plug-in. Now meet the Half-Life Headcrab that’s rendered, incredibly, using just HTML5 and WebGL – now this is what I call internet gaming. Read More >>
Featured comment by MENTAL1ST:
"Yay! Thanks to the wonders of half-implemented HTML technologies, my 12-core graphics workstation can play non-interactive animations of characters fr..." More »
Google recently offered up prizes totaling £1 million for those capable of exploiting its browser Chrome. Now, at Google's own competition called Pwnium, a student has walked away with one of the top prizes, earning £38,000 by hacking a PC running Chrome. Read More >>
Featured comment by Mil:
"This is great news. And lets face it, £38k is peanuts compared to hiring a specialist to find exploits or the reputation damage that is done if an ex..." More »
Opera on the desktop is championed by the passionate few, but its mobile browsers have enabled smartphones and dumbphones alike to browse the web fast and light for years. Now Opera’s got a new Mini preview to show off and a final release of Opera Mobile 12 for Android – who needs Chrome? Read More >>
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