Free Android, iPhone gaming: SPIL Games launches HTML5 casual gaming portals for mobile
The floodgates are opening
Dutch casual games firm SPIL Games has today unveiled mobile versions of its 41 HTML5 casual gaming websites.
What's the significance? Well, the internet plays host to a multitude of free browser-based games, but since most of these are Flash they're unaccessible to iPhone owners, thanks to Steve Jobs's well documented aversion to the platform.
The SPIL Games HTML5 portal, on the other hand, is perfectly accessible to iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch (as well as Android phones packing OS 2.0 and up). SPIL Games's move potentially brings more than 4,000 free games to compatible phones, though at the time of writing there are only six fairly mediocre titles available. Find them here.
“We are aware that HTML5 is still at an early stage,” says SPIL Games CEO Peter Driessen, “but already developers can use it to make great games, and we are confident that the industry will quickly embrace it. Within three years, we expect HTML5 to be the standard in gaming devices."
SPIL Games isn't the first company to bring HTML5 games to mobile devices. In July DS Effect unveiled 85 free iPhone games available through its HTML5 mobile portal.
Again, in the words of Pocket Gamer's own Jon Jordan these were “nothing to get excited about,” but this is nonetheless a development with potentially significant consequences.
Go to the SPIL Games site for more information.
