Notes on browser games
Mostly measurements. We run a catalogue of free browser games and check it constantly, which turns up numbers nobody else seems to publish.
Headless Chrome is served no ads — and it made our ad screener blind
Our screener said a game was clean. A phone said otherwise. The bug was that headless Chrome never gets shown ads in the first place.
Why "unblocked games" sites keep disappearing
The search results for unblocked games are full of sites with no backlinks and no history. There is a reason the same page never stays there.
A third of the free-games web is already dead
We link-checked a catalogue of browser games inherited from a live site. 49 of 151 were 404s. Here is what rots, and how fast.
We tested 547 browser games for ads. 377 of them served ads.
We loaded every game in our catalogue in a real browser and recorded which ad networks it contacted. Two-thirds were running ads inside the game frame.
How to find browser games that actually work
Most lists of browser games are half broken. Here is what to check before you trust one, from someone who checks 220 of them daily.
Two-player browser games you can play on one keyboard
No second controller, no account, no download — just two people and one set of arrow keys. A short list that actually works.
The two-minute rule for when you are bored
Deciding what to play takes longer than playing it. A simple rule that gets you past the scrolling.
What happened to Flash games, and what replaced them
Flash died in 2020 and took a decade of browser games with it. Some of it survived. Here is what, and how.