Category: Compute

AWS re:Invent 2023 is fast approaching, and AWS for Games is gearing up to welcome attendees from around the globe at the annual conference for developers in Las Vegas November 27 – December 1. This year, in addition to announcements unveiled during re:Invent keynotes, attendees can check out an exciting array of panel discussions, presentations, […]

Independent game development studio, Norsfell, was founded in 2013 to forge new genres that bring people together. Now approaching its 10th anniversary, Norsfell has grown from a small startup developing mobile games into a studio with nearly 40 team members who helped launch the award-winning multi-platform game, “Tribes of Midgard.” Globally released on July 27, […]

Today, more players are accessing the latest video game releases online as digital downloads, instead of heading into a brick-and-mortar store. This shift has reduced steps between game developers and end users, enabling players to access the latest titles and downloadable game updates from the comfort of their homes. Now, Ryu Games is taking the […]

Mobile game developer and publisher Pixel Federation entertains more than 140M players worldwide with popular mobile games, including ‘Diggy’s Adventure,’ ‘Trainstation 2,’ ‘Puzzle Adventure,’ and ‘Port City.’ Founded by four game enthusiasts in 2007, the Slovakia-based company specializes in creating mobile free-to-play community-based experiences, determining development priorities based on player feedback. Hampered by increasingly frequent […]

Games are increasingly cross-platform and online, and game developers need to develop secure and scalable backend features to support these online elements of their games. Developers also want to allow players to play with their friends across platforms, and move gameplay between those platforms to provide a seamless player experience. Customers share with us that […]

Advancing the art of virtual reality (VR) storytelling is one the primary objectives of Meta’s Oculus Studios, the division that publishes popular multiplayer games, including “Population One,” “Onward VR,” and “Beat Saber.” As Meta’s Oculus Studios continues to evolve, establishing a reliable and scalable game development and hosting backend that their VR storytellers can tap […]

With over 120 million users, Dream11 is the world’s largest fantasy sports platform that offers fantasy cricket, football, kabaddi, basketball, hockey, volleyball, handball, rugby, futsal, American football & baseball, on it. Dream11 is the flagship brand of Dream Sports, India’s leading Sports Technology company and has partnerships with several national & international sports bodies and […]

KIXEYE, a leading creator and publisher of massively multiplayer online real-time strategy games (MMORTS), first began experimenting with the cloud almost a decade ago when KIXEYE successfully moved across one of its games, VEGA Conflict. And now, after a 7 year-long journey, KIXEYE has successfully migrated all of its game portfolio to AWS. Most known […]

In recent years, game development has become increasingly distributed. In 2020, COVID-19 accelerated the demand and innovation for remote solutions. Game teams of all shapes and sizes were left with two choices: rush to take home workstations and then use their virtual private network (VPN) to access the office, or leave office development workstations and […]

Online multiplayer games have a long list of requirements to provide the best possible experience for players: game clients need identities that can securely access the game backend, backend services are required to host functionalities like matchmaking and player data, and you need a scalable way to host game sessions. In this post you’ll learn […]