Playgama's view of game engines for the web. Source: Playgama
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Web gaming growth fueled by game engine support | Playgama

While the global games industry faces stagnation, one segment is breaking the curve: web gaming.

According to market research released by web-gaming platform Playgama, the browser games market has grown 2.7 times over the past year. And it turns out that Unity is the No. 1 game engine for web games, with more than half the market.

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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.