{"id":122939,"date":"2025-11-07T13:16:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T13:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/122939\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T13:16:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T13:16:07","slug":"video-games-hottest-new-platform-is-an-old-one-websites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/122939\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Games\u2019 Hottest New Platform Is an Old One: Websites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Video-game players are returning to an old technology to get their dopamine fix: websites.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">While much of the $189 billion video-game industry is stagnant or shrinking, the appetite for web-based games like GeoGuessr and chess is soaring. Sales for such titles \u2014 advertising and the sums players spend for in-game items, were expected to triple from 2021 to 2028, reaching $3.09 billion, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/business.google.com\/in\/think\/future-of-marketing\/html5-gaming-trends-insights\/\" title=\"Google\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">data<\/a> from Google and Kantar, a market researcher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Video-game players are returning to an old technology to get their dopamine fix: websites. While much of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1032,16544,6015,138,86049,86048,29280,111,139,69,4535,8183,145,37038,2673],"class_list":{"0":"post-122939","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-advertising","9":"tag-alphabet-inc-cl-a","10":"tag-apps","11":"tag-business","12":"tag-dmitry-kachmar","13":"tag-matt-bromberg","14":"tag-new-york-times-co-a","15":"tag-new-zealand","16":"tag-newzealand","17":"tag-nz","18":"tag-smartphone","19":"tag-software","20":"tag-technology","21":"tag-unity-software-inc","22":"tag-video-games"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}