Category Archives: Browser-Based

EA has announced the end of beta for Command & Conquer: Tiberium Alliances, its browser-based, MMO-strategy game, and its the game is now officially live worldwide, in several languages. You can play it here. This is just one C&C game coming from EA, as Command & Conquer Generals 2, which uses the Frostbite 2 game engine, is also in development. Screens for Tiberium Alliances are below as well as a video.

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Rovio’s teasing something the next Angry Birds release, this time tied in with Finnish Formula One driver Heikki Kovalainen. No other details are in the public domain on what it’ll entail, though. PocketGamer reckons this’ll be a web browser affair only, with no plans for an iOS and Android release.

EA has announced it’s to shut down Dragon Age Legends next month. The firm said it will offer a free downloadable version of the game for users who want to play the title with out multiplayer. EA didn’t provide a reason for pulling the title, but during GDC Online 2011, BioWare’s Ethan Levy said the browser game failed to meet EA’s expectations. The free-to-play, social RPG debuted in March 2011 to coincide with the release of Dragon Age II. Thanks, Gamasutra.

Former Call of Duty veterans Dusty Welch and Chris Archer’s new studio, U4iA Games, have announced the firm’s first project Offensive Combat. It’s a free-to-play, browser-based FPS with “console-quality” with plenty of character customization. Hit up the website for more information. First screens are posted below.

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Ubisoft has announced Blue Byte’s The Settlers Online: Castle Empire has left the beta phase and has launched. The free-to-play online strategy game can be played right in your browser. To celebrate the launch, an in-game event is going on as we speak. Start playing through here.

You’ll have to make your own character for the Family Guy Online beta, because Family Guyzer has been pulled.

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Cave’s teased its new browser strategy title, calling it Gun Blood Days. The company opened a teaser site for the game, explaining the game’s backstory, which sees it take place in a futuristic Japanese Civil War in 2025. The player will get to fight in one of three factions: the Japanese Liberation Front, American task force Saber and the militant force Orthos.

Thanks, Andriasang.

MMO Glitch may seem a million years away from stripped-back adventure Journey, but for Robin Hunicke, one project naturally succeeds the other.

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“I don’t want to visit my friends. I want to kill them,” is the legendary Brenda Brathwaite’s approach to helming a Ghost Recon social game.

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One of the oldest subscription browser-based MMOs is making tentative steps towards microtransaction support.

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6Waves Lolapps has decided to drop the latter half of its name, having already laid off the staff members of its development division.

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Pearl Research has estimated that during 2011, the online gaming market in China grew 32% to $6.6 billion.

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Mozilla, the makers of Firefox, have launched a fiendish initiative to make sure you never leave your browser, ever.

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Ubisoft has announced a retail starter pack for The Settlers Online will be available at retail on March 29. The starter pack for the free-to-play, browser-based title set in the Settlers Universe will include 2500 gems of in-game currency, buildings with infinite resources, and an exclusive general to lead your armies. For Easter, an all-new in-game event starts the same day, which will bring with it new “quests, adventures, special buildings, a new general and a Raving Rabbid statue.” During the event, players will need to search for Easter Eggs, the event currency, which will allow them to purchase in-game items. In the UK, the Starter Pack will run you £11.99 exclusively from the Ubishop.

Paradox Interactive and Seatribe have announced the opening of beta sign-ups for the free-to-play, browser-based MMO, Salem.

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EA’s announced that Command & Conquer free-to-play browser MMO Tiberium Alliances has now began its open beta. Those interested in taking part can sign up here. The title is one of two in the series inbound; the other being BioWare Victory’s Generals 2 next year for PC.

BigPoint and Artplant provided an overview of the browser-based, free-to-play MMO A Game of Thrones at GDC this week and IGN was lucky enough to attend the chat and dish on the details.

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Capcom’s announced the return of Onimusha, but not in the way you’d like. The series will return as a Japanese browser-based social game called Onimusha Soul. Soul will be a Sengoku-era strategy RPG that will feature characters from past games in the series, with players controlling of a feudal lord in a region currently at war.

The last big Onimusha console title was Onimusha: Dawn of Dreams in 2006. More details are on Andriasang.

Paradox has sent over a massive lot of screens and video for the plethora of games heading your way from the firm.

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Zynga’s publishing platform has gone into open beta, allowing you to get your social fix outside of Facebook.

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