Mudstack raises $4M to manage assets for game devs
Veteran game entrepreneur James Gwertzman has joined Mudstack as CEO and the startup has raised $4 million to help game developers manage their assets. The Seattle-based...
Andreessen Horowitz raises $600M venture fund for games
Andreessen Horowitz has raised a $600 million fund to invest in games. The storied venture capital firm is already a big investor in games,...
Microsoft’s PlayFab grows ninefold in 3 years
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...
Microsoft shifts PlayFab game services pricing to pay-as-you-go
Microsoft’s PlayFab division is introducing a pay-as-you-go plan for its game developer services with no minimum monthly fees. The announcement follows last week’s 90%...
Microsoft’s PlayFab cuts prices for its networked player game services
Microsoft’s PlayFab division said it is cutting prices for its networked player game services. The changes are rooted in PlayFab’s effort to find efficiencies and...
Microsoft’s Game Stack chief: The next generation of games and game development
James Gwertzman started PlayFab to provide cloud-based tools and services for game developers, offloading the server infrastructure grunt work so developers could focus on...
Microsoft buys live game operations startup PlayFab, will integrate into Azure
Microsoft has acquired PlayFab, a startup which accelerates game development by handling live operations and other tasks so developers can concentrate on making their...
PlayFab taps IBM’s Watson AI to understand why gamers keep playing
IBM and PlayFab are teaming up to deliver better insights about gamers based on analysis from IBM’s Watson artificial intelligence platform. Seattle-based PlayFab provides...
PlayFab raises $3.1 million for back-end service for game developers
PlayFab announced it has raised $3.15 million in a second round of funding for its infrastructure for connected PC and mobile games. The company...
PlayFab backend-ops company now has a ‘Free Tier’ for game developers
PlayFab will enable developers to securely accept payments and more.