AccelByte raises $10M to provide backend services for cross-platform games
AccelByte has raised $10 million in funding to provide backend services for live service games that run across multiple platforms. The Seattle-based company is...
Beamable raises $5 million for Unity-based live game services platform
Beamable has raised $5 million in funding to fuel its new business of providing a live services platform for game developers. The funding is...
PlayStation launches used to lose money — but with PS5, Sony is expecting its best year ever
If you look back at the history of profits for Sony’s PlayStation division, you can see a clear cycle. PlayStation makes the most money...
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...
EA’s stock drops 6% as it signals slower quarters and fewer games ahead
Electronic Arts‘ stock price fell 6 percent in after-hours trading as the big video game publisher signaled that it wasn’t as bullish about the...
Ubisoft reveals how For Honor has thrived as a live service
Ubisoft has done a better job than a lot of other publishers when it comes to melding the new live-services model with big-budget games....
EA’s live services drive strong earnings in a quarter with no big releases
Blockbuster video game publisher Electronic Arts didn’t have much happening in its fourth fiscal quarter, other than the launch of the relatively small independent...
PC Gaming Weekly: the live services blues
Ubisoft may have put words to the unspoken strategies of many triple-A publishers when it said during an investors call this week that it...