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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 games. In 2018, Microsoft ...

PlayFab has made its backend services platform entirely free, a move that CEO James Gwertzman described as, "the biggest productivity boost for game developers since Unity launched its asset store." ...