ZeptoLab’s – Cut the Rope, a popular wildly addictive puzzle game previously available on iOS and Android, is now available on PCs. The game, playable directly from the web at www.cuttherope.ie, showcases the advanced and powerful HTML5 capabilities of Microsoft’s latest web browser, Internet Explorer 9 (IE9).
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ZeptoLab collaborated with technology specialists at Pixel Lab and with Microsoft’s Internet Explorer Team, to develop the game utilising HTML5 nd JavaScript. Check out the blogpost and video interview, where the developers discuss their technical approach to this project, and the challenges that they faced – www.cuttherope.ie/dev/.
Eighteen levels of the game are playable with most modern web browsers but seven bonus levels are available exclusively to users who pin the game to their Windows taskbar with IE9.
This is the first of many games that Microsoft’s will be bringing to the web via IE9. Hot gaming titles such as Pirates Love Daisies, Disney’s Tron, and The World’s Biggest Pacman are all currently in the pipeline toward release with Windows 7 and IE9.
Download IE9 at www.beautyoftheweb.com.
We’re quickly seeing developers porting popular smartphone/tablet-based games to the web, using HTML 5 and Javascript. This trend is expected to continue as modern browsers such as IE9 take advantage of hardware acceleration and enable visual rich and immersive experiences via browser.
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Press Release
Cut the Rope Now Free for Everyone on PCs with IE9
Wildly addictive game previously only available on smartphones is now more fun than ever on PCs showcasing the advanced HTML5 capabilities of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9 browser
Kuala Lumpur, 8 February 2012 – Cut the Rope, a popular wildly addictive – and cute – puzzle game previously only available on smartphones, is now more fun than ever on PCs. The game, playable directly from the web at www.cuttherope.ie, showcases the advanced and powerful HTML5 capabilities of Microsoft’s latest and most powerful web browser, Internet Explorer 9 (IE9).
ZeptoLab, the creators of Cut the Rope, collaborated with technology specialists at Pixel Lab and with Microsoft’s Internet Explorer Team, to deliver the game to online audiences with HTML5 technology and JavaScript. The developers discussed their technical approach to this project, and the challenges that they faced, in a short blog post including a video interview, which can be found at www.cuttherope.ie/dev/.
Eighteen (18) levels of the game are playable with most modern web browsers but seven (7) bonus levels are available exclusively to users who pin the game to their Windows taskbar with IE9.
Gamers that pin Cut the Rope to their Windows 7 taskbar, will find that IE9 takes on the look and feel of the game and unlocks unique levels not found in any previous versions of Cut the Rope. For further improvements, with the hardware acceleration enabled in IE9 and Windows 7, the game looks and feels just as rich and immersive as developers intended the game to be. This is the first of many games that Microsoft’s will be bringing to the web via IE9. Hot gaming titles such as Pirates Love Daisies, Disney’s Tron, and The World’s Biggest Pacman are all currently in the pipeline toward release with Windows 7 and IE9.
Microsoft’s IE9 can be downloaded at www.beautyoftheweb.com.
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