The mobile industry has been buzzing with HTML5 for a few years now, but the new lingua franca for the web has been hampered by a lack of supporting technologies, operating systems, and silicon. However, new developments on many fronts have started to make HTML5 more attractive, and the future is showing that this technology has a bright future.
Greg Ovalle, CEO of Stealth
In the past, the web format has been too slow for use in fast-action games. But as the ecosystem around it grows, HTML5 could become the future for multiplatform games, the web, mobile, TV, and the connected automobile.
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Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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