This browser based, free-to-play title looks like it has a ton of potential for RPG and CCG lovers.
All of this is made possible by the diversity of available distribution platforms (browser based games, Steam, the App Store) but also the openness of new technologies.
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This has been a boon to two small browser-makers, Opera, a Norwegian software company, and Mozilla, which developed the Firefox browser based on an open-source version of Netscape.
Excluding online or browser based gaming, the console market in the Middle East is by far the more dominant gaming platform with PC game sales representing less than 15% of overall sales.
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Web weather is entirely browser based, and you can bring it up in just the same way as on a smartphone -- confirm that your GPS is enabled, then head to Google.com and type "weather" -- you'll be rewarded with a 10-day forecast, complete with temp, precipitation, humidity and wind speed readouts.
He and his team analyzed the world of screen-based content and realized that there was no browser-based technology specifically built for rendering apps.
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They both believed that the future of business software rested on internet-style, browser-based computing.
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Almost any application, at least -- I couldn't get it operating in Google Apps' browser-based word processor.
The most recent move is the launch of a new browser-based video chat service called AV.
It is allowing third-party developers to create browser-based games in HTML5, instead of native apps to each phone.
Initially the experience will be browser-based, but Nintendo plans to create a dedicated Miiverse app in the future.
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Meanwhile, browser-based games compete progressively more fiercely for eyes and dollars, offering progressively better graphics and a more immersive experience.
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The introduction of WebSockets allows fast bi-directional full-duplex connections between a browser and an application, useful for high-performance browser-based applications.
Its Web browser is based on the Webkit engine, which also powers Safari and Google Chrome, i.e. iOS and Android.
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Founded in 2005, Meebo started out as a browser-based instant messaging service and expanded into a social toolbar product for publishers.
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And that model needs to include browser-based games and mobile games, yet still address the higher-revenue generating segment of client-based MMOGs.
Bigpoint has built its success by circumventing Facebook to deliver 3D browser-based gaming experiences directly to consumers via PCs, tablets and smartphones.
The browser-based software allows users to add details about buildings, hiking trails, vegetation and other features to its maps of the country.
But there is a major problem with this approach: browser-based mobile apps are more convenient for developers than they are for users.
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The browser-based game category is getting bigger and bigger, and City of Steam joins already popular MMOs like Drakensang Online sometime in 2013.
Created in 1999, Neopets was the progenitor of what would later become an extremely popular game genre: the multi-player browser-based pet simulation game.
Launched first on iPhone in March, Scout for Apps is the first HTML5, browser-based, voice-guided, turn by turn, GPS navigation service for mobile phones.
This existing vulnerability was the driving factor behind the above modifications as browser-based crypto is not seen as sufficient protection from determined State-level actors.
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Unlike most services, which use a browser-based tool for book design, with Apple you use a stand-alone photo editor iPhoto or Aperture to create your book.
This browser-based service will automatically append the all important hashtag to each tweet so that the conversation is filtered (and searchable) by each hashtag conversation.
Netscape Enterprise Web Server and a browser-based tool for managing it.
Kings and Legends is a free-to-play browser-based tactical TCG with MMORPG elements and a focus on PVP combat published by Just A Game .
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Your mail can be read by any mail client that handles HTML, including all major e-mail programs and browser-based e-mail such as Hotmail or Yahoo.
This would presumably be in the form of a browser-based web conferencing platform based on an open-source platform (and would not require the installation of any software).
Browser-based cryptography also means that anyone who breaks the SSL encryption that protects the data sent by the server could tamper with the code just as easily.
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