Games development is notoriously difficult. With that in mind, spare a thought for the folks taking part in this year’s Js13kGames competition, which sees them create a JavaScript game while ...

Stephen Shankland Nov. 29, 2010 5:43 a.m. PT 3 min read Imran Nazar's JavaScript emulator can run 1989-era Game Boy games in a Web browser. screenshot by Stephen Shankland/CNET ...

Google’s in-house incubator Area 120 just released an app called Grasshopper, which teaches you how to code JavaScript through a series of fun mini-games, as reported by 9to5Google. The goal ...

These games rely heavily on chance, with random number generators determining the outcome of each spin. When it comes to coding these games for the web, JavaScript is the language of choice.

With HTML5, CSS and JavaScript, you can build some pretty nice little games — and without a significant up-front investment. If you’re comfortable with just these technologies, you’re pretty ...

Line Rider JavaScript is a remake of the well-known flash game Line Rider in JavaScript by David Lu. It has features such as playback scrubbing, music synchronization tools, and onion skinning.

This month, he’s tackled Super Mario Kart in about 11 Kb of code. It’s not the full game, however. “So far, it’s just racing. No weapons or any of that fancy stuff.

Imran Nazar is building a Game Boy emulator out of JavaScript to show how far the language has come, particularly with the fancy new stuff HTML5's <canvas> tag allows for, and to see if it would ...

DMCA-chu, I choose you. Nintendo asks GitHub to make Javascript-based Game Boy emulator disappear More than 20 games— Pokémon Silver and Gold included—were formerly available.

Germany's Dextrose, the browser-based game engine startup, has acquired California-based Effect Games, which provides developer tools for creating and publishing web-based games. The terms of the ...