Google Chrome’s latest update had good intention.
Google Chrome’s latest update had good intentions, but it’s also had the unfortunate side-effect of removing audio from web-based games.
The update – outlined here – stops videos from autoplaying with sound. This is great for annoying autoplaying ads, but as Kotaku picked up, it’s broken a bunch of web-based games by silencing their audio.
Creator of Getting Over It Bennett Foddy tweeted that the update is “a disaster for games and audio art on the web”, while Stephen’s Sausage Roll’s Stephen Lavelle said that the update ” broke all of the audio in my html5 games as well.”
There’s currently a workaround, but implementing it game-by-game is far from ideal.
For more on Google, check out our review of Google Home.
Lucy O’Brien is Games & Entertainment Editor at IGN’s Sydney office. Follow her on Twitter.
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