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Find the Higgs Boson in ‘Ms. Particle-Man’ for iOS and browsers

Ms. Particle-Man

We may not be any closer to conclusively finding the elusive Higgs Boson, but Michael Falk’s Ms. Particle-Man gives you a chance to look for it in the form of a retro iOS and browser title. The titular bow-adorned character must make it through three different colliders, collecting energy and battling the lepton, gluon, and quark “boss particles.” Gameplay is challenging, unforgiving, and quite satisfying. It’s $ 0.99 on the App Store, but you can head over here to play it for free with the Silverlight plugin.

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March 31, 2012 0 comments Read More

Browserquest: an MMO tech demo made to work in browsers everywhere

Browserquest is a game put together by Mozilla (the company behind the popular Firefox browser) and intended to show off WebSockets, a technology that allows constant communication between your browser and a server online. But outside of the tech, it’s a nice little streamlined MMORPG. There’s no story to speak of, but you can explore a beautiful world, meet NPCs, and kill creatures while upgrading your items.

Browserquest is also impressive because it’s as cross-platform as these things get — even just resizing your browser screen will change the way the HTML 5 game is displayed, so it works great on your big-screen monitor, mobile devices, or anything else you run it on. If you happen to be a coder, the full source is also available on Github, so you can see how it’s all done, and even use that code to build your own games.

The graphics and gameplay are charming enough that you’ll wish it was filled out more, but Browserquest already works as a template for what browser-based games might be like in the future.

Joystiq Browserquest: an MMO tech demo made to work in browsers everywhere originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 29 Mar 2012 07:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Microsoft to let Windows 8 web browsers play nice with Metro, Firefox version in the works

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We previously heard that Mozilla was planning a Metro version of Firefox, and now developer Brian R. Bondy has announced that the company has begun work on it. While that’s good for Firefox fans, the real news is that the program is going to belong to a new, third type of Windows 8 apps: “Metro style enabled desktop browsers.” We’re still trying to figure it all out (and we think Microsoft is too), but from what we understand, this new, third type is an exception to Microsoft’s rules and lets traditional Windows web browsers participate in the Metro experience. The third category would co-exist alongside Windows 8′s two current categories — one for apps in the traditional, Windows 7-like environment, and another for those that belong…

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Command and Conquer: Tiberium Alliances headed to browsers, mobile

EA continues the expansion of its “play4free” portfolio with the announcement of Command and Conquer: Tiberium Alliances, developed by Phenomic. The browser- and mobile-based strategy MMO will begin a closed beta on December 15. Interested generals can sign up at the game’s official site.

The mobile Command and Conquer comes hot on the heels of last weekend’s announcement of Command and Conquer: Generals 2, currently in production at BioWare Victory for launch on PC in 2013.

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Joystiq Command and Conquer: Tiberium Alliances headed to browsers, mobile originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 14 Dec 2011 17:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Top Web Browsers Benchmarked on Laptop – Chrome Fastest

It this test, we did a performance benchmark of the most popular web browsers. We did the comparison on one of lower-end processors used in laptops, the AMD E-450. On higher-end notebooks, the difference between web surfing speed using different browsers is much less noticeable than on the slower ones, especially netbooks. So, we conducted this test to show you how web browser selection can help you do web surfing more smooth on a lower-performance machine, such as those cheap AMD E-series based Black Friday laptops. For this test, we have used Peacekeeper browser benchmark tool, the latest versions of
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Google Chrome: Google’s Web browser

As you may know, Google owns the Internet or at least wants to. However, they seem to have stumbled into a roadblock because a certain company (Microsoft) owns a significant amount of marketshare of a certain web browser (Internet Explorer). So if you’re Google, what do you do? You release your own browser and hope in a few years it’ll knock your competition down to its knees. Well, that’s exactly what Google did today with the release of Google Chrome. Based on the Safari web-kit, Google Chrome is very speedy and lightweight.

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