Microsoft is doubling down on gaming inside its cloud division, bringing together several developer tools and services under one umbrella and introducing new capabilities from a key acquisition made last… Read More
Microsoft said it has acquired Seattle gaming startup PlayFab, in a bid to strengthen its position in the more than $100 billion market. PlayFab started four years ago, and it… Read More
PlayFab is raising more cash to help grow its online gaming support platform. PlayFab CEO James Gwertzman said that the Seattle startup has raised $3.1 million of a new round. Total funding to… Read More
February heralded some notable shifts in the GeekWire 200, our ranking of the top 200 privately-held technology companies in the Pacific Northwest, presented by EY. Gaming companies Fun Bits Interactive and PlayFab moved… Read More
—Cyanogen, the makers of modified versions of Android for mobile devices, has snagged two executives from Amazon and Qualcomm to expand international operations. Former Amazon Vice President of Traffic Stephen Lawler is… Read More
PlayFab, a Seattle-based company that provides game developers with back-end services for their online games, announced today that it raised $7.4 million in a Series A investment round. The round… Read More
—Startup vet Shauna Causey — a former marketing executive at UP Global and Decide.com — has landed a new gig at Seattle health startup EveryMove. In addition, the company named… Read More
PlayFab, a Seattle company that provides back-end support for game studios, today announced a $2.5 million seed round from angel investors like PopCap co-founder Jason Kapalka and IronPort co-founder Scott Banister.… Read More
During the eight years he spent working for Seattle-based PopCap Games, James Gwertzman witnessed the company make the transition to a free-to-play monetization strategy. It wasn’t easy. Suddenly, PopCap had… Read More