Playtox has launched World of Shadows, a new HTML5 online mobile game.
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Russian developer Playtox launches HTML5 mobile game World of Shadows in U.S.

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Russian mobile game developer Playtox, which has more than 45 million players in Eastern Europe and elsewhere, has launched its adventure game World of Shadows in the U.S. in the HTML5 format.

Playtox's World of Shadows
Playtox’s World of Shadows

HTML5 is the lingua franca of the web, but it has been a controversial format in games because it can run slow and with limited features in a pure native implementation. But more developers are launching such titles to take advantage of the cross-platform nature of the browser neutral format.

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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.