{"id":3291,"date":"2021-02-24T13:25:15","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T13:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/?p=1340300"},"modified":"2021-02-24T13:25:15","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T13:25:15","slug":"playing-html5-games-on-chrome-for-android-is-gonna-get-a-lot-easier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/?p=3291","title":{"rendered":"Playing HTML5 games on Chrome for Android is gonna get a lot easier"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A lot of my colleagues are serious gamers, but I\u2019m a basic human who enjoys a lot of silly arcade games.<\/p>\n<p>I was happy when Google\u2018s Area 120 team announced <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/gaming\/2020\/02\/14\/googles-area-120-is-brining-lightweight-games-to-low-powered-devices\/\">GameSnacks<\/a>&nbsp;last year\u2014 a project to bring lightweight HTML5 games to low-powered Android devices. This was a way for many users with low connectivity to enjoy some casual games.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of launch, you could either go to the project\u2019s site to play these games, or Indonesia\u2019s GoJek app where it was integrated. Google has now understood that this might not be the best way to find these games, so now, it\u2019s promoting them in Chrome for Android.<\/p>\n<p>Google announced today that it\u2019s putting a games section in Chrome\u2019s Top Sites to surface GameSnacks\u2019 titles. That sounds amazing but if you don\u2019t visit the Top Sites section a lot, you might not get to discover these games at all.<\/p>\n<p>The company says that Games is one of the most visited sections in the Top Sites tab. But it would\u2019ve been better to shift them to another section called lightweight games.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-image post-mediaBleed aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1340329 lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/02\/chrome.gif\" alt width=\"464\" height=\"984\" data-lazy=\"true\"><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/plugged\/2021\/02\/24\/google-chrome-html5-games-india\/#\" data-url=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fthenextweb.com%2Fplugged%2F2021%2F02%2F24%2Fgoogle-chrome-html5-games-india%2F&amp;via=thenextweb&amp;related=thenextweb&amp;text=Check out this picture on: Chrome games\" data-title=\"Share Chrome games on Twitter\" data-width=\"685\" data-height=\"500\" class=\"post-image-share popitup\" title=\"Share Chrome games on Twitter\"><i class=\"icon icon--inline icon--twitter--dark\"><\/i><\/a>Chrome games<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>[Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/plugged\/2020\/11\/27\/build-pet-friendly-gadget-experts-animal-owners-design\/\">How do you build a pet-friendly gadget? We asked experts and animal owners<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re a Chrome for Android<span>&nbsp;user in India, Indonesia, Nigeria, and Kenya, you\u2019ll be able access these games. Google is also introducing these games in the Google Pay payments app in India.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-image post-mediaBleed aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1340338 lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/02\/gpay.gif\" alt width=\"368\" height=\"782\" data-lazy=\"true\"><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/plugged\/2021\/02\/24\/google-chrome-html5-games-india\/#\" data-url=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fthenextweb.com%2Fplugged%2F2021%2F02%2F24%2Fgoogle-chrome-html5-games-india%2F&amp;via=thenextweb&amp;related=thenextweb&amp;text=Check out this picture on: Games in Google Pay India\" data-title=\"Share Games in Google Pay India on Twitter\" data-width=\"685\" data-height=\"500\" class=\"post-image-share popitup\" title=\"Share Games in Google Pay India on Twitter\"><i class=\"icon icon--inline icon--twitter--dark\"><\/i><\/a>Games in Google Pay India<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Plus, the company is also exploring a way to start these games directly through a Google Assistant command.<\/p>\n<p><i>Did you know we have a newsletter all about consumer tech? It\u2019s called Plugged In \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/thenextweb\/plugged-in\">and you can subscribe to it right here<\/a>. <\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-post-pubDate\"> Published February 24, 2021 \u2014 13:25 UTC <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/plugged\/2021\/02\/24\/google-chrome-html5-games-india\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of my colleagues are serious gamers, but I\u2019m a basic human who enjoys a lot of silly arcade games. I was happy when Google\u2018s Area 120 team announced GameSnacks&nbsp;last year\u2014&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3292,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3291"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}