Forget phone apps and gaming consoles, video game players are returning to websites

12/11/2025 3 Views

Video-game players are returning to an old technology to get their dopamine fix: websites.

While much of the US$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 – advertising and the sums players spend on in-game items – were expected to triple from 2021 to 2028, reaching US$3.09 billion, according to data from Google and Kantar, a market researcher.

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