In days of yore, the Gods came down from Olympus and engraved upon the Souls of Mankind a single Rule: "thou shalt release no videogames of note in January, because dude, nobody buys videogames in January - everybody's all spent out after Christmas". Sorry, Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition.

In later, more enlightened times, however, the miracle of digital distribution has begun to dislodge this ancient dogma. You can play a whole bunch of HTML-5 games on Xbox One right now using the console's Internet Explorer app, for instance. OK, so it's not quite Titanfall - but dagnabbit, it might keep the wolf from your door.

Xboxie (Xbox IE, see) has helpfully rounded up a hair short of 40 games for inspection. I heartily recommend Strandead (catapult squirrel at ocean, watch it die) and Gravity Maze (pictured; rotate the entire world to move fluffy monochrome animals to the exit). Most or all of the games don't strictly speaking offer controller support, but can still be enjoyed without a keyboard and mouse. Bear in mind that the site appears to be sponsored by the creators of Total Domination, which is one of the titles listed.

FULL LIST HERE

http://www.totalxbox.com/69935/37-html-5-games-you-can-play-on-xbox-ones-browser/

So cool! When I first heard about it I thought it was a joke or a hack. Definitely cool to get forty extra games for free.

I just played Cut the Rope with the Wii U browser. Works great. Thanks for the link!! *edit* not all of the games work for Wii U, though. :'-(

nice i liek web games cna play them on my pc lol

Some games you can play on Wii U as well

Do any of these games utilize Kinect?

That does sound quite cool. Reminds me of the good old Miniclip days.

LOL. No I dont think so. No achievements either.

Cool.

It was actually a serious question.  I was kinda surprised to see Cut the Rope utilize the Wii U controller perfectly and there were some games a while back that worked perfectly with the Wii Remote even though they were designed to be used with a mouse.  Plus some games (again, cut the rope) would be impossible to play in later or even a lot of earlier levels with just a controller.  They're just not precise enough.