Azure PlayFab recently expanded its Party plugin for Unity to support Nintendo Switch, Sony PlayStation 4 and 5, Android, and iOS. The plugin already supported the Xbox Series X, Xbox Series X, Xbox ...

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 ...

As more studios launch live games that rely on always-online servers and constantly updated content, the tab to keep the backend servers running can get expensive. But that is where a company that ...

As Microsoft continues its march toward delivering an Azure-powered streaming game service, the company simultaneously is targeting more third-party game developers with its apps and services. On ...

While Microsoft's very own cloud platform, Azure, is most often associated with use in business environments, there's also a perhaps not as prominently displayed application in gaming. To bolster its ...

Developing a game is hard. Along with coding how the game’s rules or world works, you’ve got characters to model and animate, level artwork, music, voice, acting, and writing. Thankfully, game engines ...

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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 ...