Play Cut the Rope Now in Your Browser With HTML5

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By Marcus Yam
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Cut the Rope is one of those great games that's graced the iPhone and Android for quite a while. Now Cut the Rope has been ported to your modern browser through HTML5.

Microsoft debuted it at its CES keynote on Monday night to help promote its Internet Explorer 9 browser. Our quick testing shows that the game works in other HTML5-capable browsers, but Microsoft has a special deal where seven of the 25 levels are new and exclusive to IE9 users.

Players who want to unlock the IE9 exclusive levels must pin the game to their Windows 7 taskbar.

You can play Cut the Rope at http://www.cuttherope.ie.

Marcus Yam
Marcus Yam
Marcus Yam served as Tom's Hardware News Director during 2008-2014. He entered tech media in the late 90s and fondly remembers the days when an overclocked Celeron 300A and Voodoo2 SLI comprised a gaming rig with the ultimate street cred.
16 Comments Comment from the forums
  • zanny
    So Microsoft thinks releasing games that are platform specific for IE will attract web developers when they are terrible at standards compliance, exploit web monopolies when they have them, and their browser is slow and exploit vulnerable, AND they are the only closed source browser in the race? (Safari as well, but who uses Safari?)
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  • It's funny that the game won't even run on Chrome. It crashes immediately.
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  • cronik93
    Game played fine for me... on Chrome.
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  • TunaSoda
    Because Chrome is horrible? :D
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  • IndignantSkeptic
    I will not support companies who do these exclusivity deals.
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  • td854
    the_clapIt's funny that the game won't even run on Chrome. It crashes immediately.
    Works fine for me and I have about 35 tabs open.
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  • alidan
    ZannySo Microsoft thinks releasing games that are platform specific for IE will attract web developers when they are terrible at standards compliance, exploit web monopolies when they have them, and their browser is slow and exploit vulnerable, AND they are the only closed source browser in the race? (Safari as well, but who uses Safari?)
    i now have a paste ghost because of ie9, the worst browser i have on this computer, i hate its interface most of all, ie8ui was better.
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  • aaron88_7
    the_clapIt's funny that the game won't even run on Chrome. It crashes immediately.Not sure what you're issue is, but I've never had Chrome crash on me. The game works just fine for me in both Chrome and Firefox.

    Must be the user, not the browser.
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  • DSpider
    Just sits there on Firefox 9.0.1 (Linux), at "00%". Works fine in Chromium, tho.
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  • freggo
    "IE9 exclusive levels must"

    Micro$oft just does not learn from past experiences.
    You come up with some "IE only' (anti)feature and you are bound to shoot your own foot.
    Remember IE6 and how you wish you could untie it from older Windows systems ?

    Don't you sometimes wish you could go to a M$ Board meeting and slap their Exes in the face so they wake up and LISTEN to the world ?
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