During the eight years he spent working for Seattle-based PopCap Games, James Gwertzman witnessed the company make the transition to a free-to-play monetization strategy. It wasn’t easy. Suddenly, ...

Making games is more accessible than it ever has been. There's now a myriad of game engines to choose from, most of them for free, and an equally important accessibility of storefronts in the PC space ...

Microsoft has acquired PlayFab, a startup which accelerates game development by handling live operations and other tasks so developers can concentrate on making their games. PlayFab runs backend ...

Complete backend and operations platform PlayFab has announced some of its most popular features will now be made free for developers to access. The Seattle tools outfit hopes that its move - labelled ...

Video games can offer more data and metrics than pretty much any other form of entertainment, and PlayFab Inc. wants to use the power of IBM Corp.’s Watson artificial intelligence platform to turn ...

Microsoft is launching new cloud-based tools for game developers, including software development kits (SDKs) allowing for more cross-platform capabilities between Xbox Live and iOS and Android, it ...

In the latest chapter of GAFAM’s continuing bid to conquer online gaming, Microsoft has acquired PlayFab, which helps game developers launch their titles online more quickly with simplified back-end ...

Three years since being acquired, Microsoft’s PlayFab division said today that its monthly active users grew nearly nine times since the software giant acquired it. On top of that, the company said ...

Microsoft Corp.’s Azure cloud platform is about to get more interesting for game developers, as the company announced today that it has acquired PlayFab Inc., a startup that provides a backend ...

Microsoft is stepping up the investment in its Azure cloud platform. The company today announced that it has acquired PlayFab and its back-end platform of tools for live ops games. "Many industries ...

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"Microsoft, with its deep expertise in gaming and cloud computing, is a perfect home for PlayFab as we expand our platform and features," the company said. (Reuters) Microsoft has acquired gaming ...