Unreal Engine 3 runs native in your browser

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Browser-based games get a shot in the arm

You may be able to run Unreal Engine 3 in your browser right this moment, with no installation. Epic Games and Mozilla have collaborated on a native port of the engine's Citadel tech demo to JavaScript, OpenGL, and HTML5.

Most browser games require some extra finaggling with plugins or add-ons, and some even launch a separate program. Citadel doesn't have the visual firepower of the Infiltrator Unreal Engine 4 demo, but it gives us a lot of hope for the future of easy, accessible, browser-native gaming.

The video below shows HTML5 Citadel if you can't get it to load, as well as some browser-based Unreal Tournament III gameplay.

Connor Sheridan
Connor Sheridan

I got a BA in journalism from Central Michigan University - though the best education I received there was from CM Life, its student-run newspaper. Long before that, I started pursuing my degree in video games by bugging my older brother to let me play Zelda on the Super Nintendo. I've previously been a news intern for GameSpot, a news writer for CVG, and was formerly a staff writer at GamesRadar.