Fortnite studio Epic wants to improve its hit with Amazon Web Services
Epic Games already hosts its megahit Fortnite on Amazon’s server platform, but the developer revealed today that it is planning to partner with Amazon...
Amazon powers cloud servers for 90% of large game companies
More than 90 percent of the world’s largest game companies use Amazon Web Services, which offloads online gaming infrastructure tasks to Amazon’s giant cloud...
Borderlands developer Gearbox uses the cloud to change how it makes games
When you imagine the kind of work a game developer does, you probably think about someone designing a level or programming movement and physics....
The curious case of Amazon’s deep plunge into the esports industry
Amazon’s been busy building out an epic esports ecosystem, or empire, that is simply unprecedented. Just in case you haven’t appreciated the reality of...
Ex-Sony Online chief John Smedley starts Amazon game studio after Kickstarter failure
John Smedley, the former chief of Sony’s online business, has joined Amazon to create a new game studio in San Diego, Calif. The move...
Twitch users decided my fate in a VR game built on Amazon Lumberyard
Hidden away on the exhibition floor at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco today, I found a short line next to the big...
Amazon adds zombie apocalypse reference to its AWS terms
Public cloud infrastructure provider Amazon Web Services (AWS) is getting snarky. And it’s not even April Fools’ Day. In conjunction with the launch last...
Amazon takes on Unity, Unreal, Stingray, and more with Lumberyard, a free cross-platform game engine
Amazon has unveiled two new products aimed squarely at the professional game-developer fraternity: Lumberyard, a free 3D game engine; and GameLift, a service for...
Amazon launches AWS C++ SDK designed for game developers
Amazon Web Services (AWS), the Amazon-owned public cloud that companies can use to build and run applications, announced today the availability of an open-source...
Ouya finally getting triple-A games — thanks to the cloud
The Playcast beta allows Ouya users to stream games like Lego Harry Potter and Sonic Generations for free.