---
title: "Phaser v3.88 Released"
subtitle: "A major new update is now available, including over 40 important fixes and enhancements."
date: 2025-02-11T13:52:00.000Z
category: news
url: https://phaser.io/news/2025/02/phaser-v388-released
site: Phaser - https://phaser.io
copyright: © 2026 Phaser Studio Inc. All rights reserved.
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# Phaser v3.88 Released

*A major new update is now available, including over 40 important fixes and enhancements.*

We are excited to announce the release of Phaser v3.88, codenamed 'Minami'. This latest version of our open-source HTML5 game framework brings lots of important fixes and improvements that we know our community will benefit from.

Our mobile and web audio systems have received vital updates. We've improved audio unlocking on mouse-enabled devices, and implemented crucial fixes for iOS 17.5.1+ and iOS 18+ to prevent audio interruption during focus changes in Safari.

We've merged a community PR that adds a handy new `Transform.getWorldPoint` method that lets you accurately retrieve world coordinates for game objects, even within nested hierarchies. Plus Dynamic Textures have had their rendering quality substantially improved by ensuring even-numbered dimensions.

For our physics-focused developers, we've enhanced Arcade Physics collision handling, particularly for circle-to-circle and circle-to-rectangle collisions. We've also fixed a critical issue with Matter.js physics that could cause browser crashes when handling large delta values in background tabs.

The update includes many more improvements, from better tilemap handling to enhanced tween management and DOM element scaling fixes. We've worked hard to ensure these changes maintain backward compatibility while improving your game development workflow. As always, please see the full [Change Log](https://github.com/phaserjs/phaser/releases/tag/v3.88.0) for details.

Phaser v3.88 is available now via npm and GitHub and in the Phaser Sandbox. We've also updated all of our framework templates too. We encourage all developers to upgrade to this latest version to take advantage of these improvements. As always, we're grateful for our community's continued support and feedback that helps make Phaser better with each release.

[Download v3.88](https://phaser.io/download/release/v3.88.0)

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- **Phaser AE in the browser** (https://phaser.io/agent): the game's design, and a crew of bots that make its art, sprites, music, sound effects, logos, title screens, game UI, textures, shaders, 3D models and video, then build, test and publish the game. Every tool there is registered with Web MCP (`document.modelContext`, with `window.phaserDesk` for browsers without it), so an agent in the user's browser can call the tools directly once the user is signed in. Tools that make something spend the user's credits.
- **The CLI** (https://phaser.io/cli): `npx -y @phaser-ae/cli` builds the game on the user's own machine with their own coding agent (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and others). In a game's folder every command is an npm script.
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- **Credits** (https://phaser.io/credits): what the desk's tools spend. Bought in packs, with no plan needed.
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