This morning at MIX11 in Las Vegas, Dean Hachamovitch (IE Corporate Vice President) demo’d the World’s Biggest PAC-MAN. The keynote is now available to watch here.

PAC-MAN first appeared in the 80s and has “iconic status in the video gaming community and continues to be one of the most famous arcade franchises of all time,” said Michael Kordahi, Developer Evangelist at Microsoft Australia. “Through Internet Explorer 9 we’re taking PAC-MAN to the next level - literally!”

The team worked with NAMCO BANDAI and Soap Creative to give the world one of its favourite video games through the browser, in a fun and engaging way that truly showcases how developers can deliver a new class of web experiences by taking advantage of modern web standards and hardware acceleration. Using HTML5’s Canvas and taking advantage of Internet Explorer 9’s built-in hardware acceleration to deliver a slick web experience. “The project team has been working tirelessly on this game for weeks, but it’s been such an exciting project and we’re delighted with the result. Although we’ll be glad when we don’t have to listen to the PAC-MAN sound FX every day,” said Ashley Ringrose at Soap Creative.

So why not help us build the world’s biggest PAC-MAN at http://worldsbiggestpacman.com?