Find a solution for every step of your journey
Modern games require more powerful development tools, global and flexible multiplayer support and new revenue models. But you are here to build worlds, not back ends. Let us manage your platform so you can focus on making games that make headlines.
Start with PlayFab
Full-stack LiveOps. Real-time control.
Now part of the Microsoft family, PlayFab is a complete back-end platform for live games and a powerful way for independent studios to get started. Boost revenue, engagement and retention—while cutting costs—with game services, real-time analytics and LiveOps.
Scale with Azure
Your game. Your cloud.
Build your infrastructure on a gaming cloud with years of experience powering Xbox games and services. Azure offers the building blocks you need to scale and customize what you started with PlayFab and it covers more regions than any cloud provider.
Build better games, faster
Get higher quality games to market faster with a complete set of game-development solutions.
Launch and scale globally
Launch on a global infrastructure and scale seamlessly with building blocks from Azure.
Monetise intelligently
Uncover new revenue opportunities with LiveOps services, analytics and machine learning.
You are in good company
From fresh upstarts to the biggest names in the industry, Azure powers games that get results.
Fluffy Fairy Games
The makers of Idle Miner learn what players want and deliver quickly with the cloud
Ubisoft
Rainbow Six Siege uses Azure to deliver immersive multiplayer games globall
IO Interactive - Hitman
Hitman, from Io-Interactive, slays expectations by analysing player behaviour in real time
Tencent
Tencent Games refines their cloud game solution with Azure Service Fabric
Next Games - The Walking Dead
Next Games, maker of The Walking Dead: No Man’s Land, scales globally with Azure Cosmos DB
Halo 5
Halo 5 uses Azure Cosmos DB to elevate social gaming with Spartan companies