AWS for Games Blog
Category: Amazon Elastic Container Service
Launching Ghostbusters: Rise of the Ghost Lord – How nDreams scale tested with AWS Fargate
This blog was co-authored by Tim Edmunds, Technical Director, nDreams; Jamie Holding, Senior Principal Programmer, nDreams; and Nick Robinson, Technical Director, Near Light. Leading up to the launch of the multiplayer VR game Ghostbusters: Rise of the Ghost Lord, the talented team at nDreams knew they needed to put the game through its paces at […]
How The Pokémon Company International Orchestrates Zero-Downtime Deployments for Pokémon TCG Live – Part 1
This blog is co-authored by Kylie Yamamoto, DevOps Engineer from TPCi, Sarath Kumar Kallayil Sreedharan and Jackie Jiang from AWS. Introduction Pokémon is one of the most popular and successful entertainment franchises in the world, encompassing video games, mobile apps, the Pokémon Trading Card Game (TCG), animation and movies, Play! Pokémon competitive events, and licensed […]
Kinetix taps AWS to bring generative AI tools directly to players
With social interaction central to the gaming experience, demand for user-generated content (UGC) across games is exploding, from Roblox to Fortnite and beyond. Just as no two humans think, talk, or move the same way, many video game development studios and players are of the mindset that digital characters shouldn’t either. This is where emotes […]
Gamer Arena minimizes DevOps demands, unlocks generative AI potential with AWS
Serving more than 550,000 users globally, Gamer Arena offers a unique ecosystem for video game players to compete and earn rewards. Established in 2020, the company aims to introduce gamers to the advantages of blockchain technology in a fun and exciting way. It hosts a mobile application with more than 20 self-published games, as well […]
The Game Developer’s Guide to re:Invent 2023
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, […]
New Solution Guidance for building scalable cross-platform game backends on AWS
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 […]
Using machine learning to understand a user community
This guest post is authored by Alexander Gee, co-founder of Oterlu AI. For two years I led a Child Safety team at Google in Silicon Valley that worked hard to keep children safe when using different online services. Over my career I have built up experience and know-how using technology to tackle everything from hate […]