Tag: AWS Game Tech

Introduction Game developers constantly seek innovative ways to create more interactive multiplayer experiences. However, with increasing player expectations, rising game production costs, and growing competition, studios face the challenge of balancing game performance and profitability. Game developers from studios of various sizes tell us that reducing operational costs without compromising player experiences is a top priority […]

With over 190+ million users, Dream11 is the world’s largest fantasy sports platform. Their site offers fantasy cricket, football, kabaddi, basketball, hockey, volleyball, handball, rugby, American football & baseball. Dream11 is the flagship brand of Dream Sports, India’s leading Sports Technology company. They have partnerships with several national and international sports bodies and cricketers. About […]

Ensuring online communities are safe and inclusive places for all is essential for maintaining community engagement and ultimately obtaining the most value for your users. This challenge presents itself in many industries – ranging from gaming to social media networks. However, the volume of data and interactions between users increases daily making policing these communities […]

Blog authors: Gena Gizzi, Jake Wolf, Noor Fairoza, and Chris Blackwell Democratizing Unreal Engine development on AWS with End User Compute products and advanced GPU-based EC2 instances Introduction The games industry is evolving and user-generated content (UGC) is leading the change. Players are making more UGC than ever, motivated by self-expression and the chance to […]

This post is written by Yahav Biran, Principal Solutions Architect, and Matt Trescot, Games, SA Leader – Americas Historically, the art of creating and running complex game servers locked developers in to a single CPU architecture, typically Intel/AMD. Our developers tell us it’s hard to introduce different CPU architectures once game servers are built for a […]

A mage, a hacker, and a barbarian walk into a bar…  What sounds like the start of a joke is the ultimate vision for cyberpunk, blockchain collectible card game “Metropolis Origins”, created by game industry veterans at QXR Studios. Players build decks with cards from Government, Corporate, or Underground factions, and go up against other […]

Like space age gladiators, “Crossfar” players battle head-to-head in a zero-gravity sphere arena set amongst the stars. Piloting drones, gamers must defend their gate, destroy enemy defenses, and rely on sharp tactical decision-making to come out on top. Imagined as a sci-fi take on esports, the game was developed in only two years by a […]

Metalhead knows a thing or two about big swings. As the developer behind popular video game franchise “Super Mega Baseball,” the studio has taken each installment to new heights, growing its own capabilities and talent base in tandem. Now part of EA SPORTS, Metalhead has aimed for the fences with “Super Mega Baseball 4” (SMB […]

Blog Authors: David Holladay – AWS Game Tech Head of PMM & Ryan Greene – AWS Game Tech Sr. PMM This blog post presents data and findings from an annual survey of professional video game developers conducted by Amazon Web Services (AWS) during October and November, 2022, alongside details about new AWS for Games solutions […]

Blog Authors: Jean-Régis De Vauplane and Martin Muller – Flaneer, Youcef Banchene and Hossam Basudan – AWS Animation has boomed in recent years and it’s now present in nearly every film or television show. The increase in popularity is caused by animation’s ability to storytell and hold an audience’s attention. Although, crafting animations isn’t a […]