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Japan’s Rakuten Games launches HTML5 social game platform

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Japan’s Rakuten Games has launched its HTML5 social game platform known as R Games.

The HTML5 platform — based on HTML5 standard, or the lingua franca of the web — is becoming more popular with endorsements from Facebook, which launched its Instant Games last fall. That means you can play HTML5 games on a smartphone or PC via a web browser.

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Dean Takahashi

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.