James Gwertzman started PlayFab to provide cloud-based tools and services for game developers, offloading the server infrastructure grunt work so developers could focus on games. In 2018, Microsoft ...

Microsoft announced Game Stack today, an all-in-one solution for game developers. It combines all of the company's tools and services for game development into one offering. Game Stack includes things ...

As Microsoft continues its march toward delivering an Azure-powered streaming game service, the company simultaneously is targeting more third-party game developers with its apps and services. On ...

Josh Wardle, a software engineer based in Brooklyn, created the game for his partner, Palak Shah, who loves word puzzles, and named it Wordle as a play on his last name, according to The New York ...

From Scrabble to Wordle, word puzzle games are a firm favorite amongst gamers, thanks to their mind-training capabilities and the sense of pure elation when you nail your lexicon mastery. So, to help ...

Stretch your lexicon with this library of brainteasers. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. To celebrate the second coming of the ...

Stadia was introduced as both a game streaming service and a game development platform hosted in Google’s data centers. In a previous article I noted that this combination set Stadia apart from ...

Microsoft today announced a new initiative that combines under a single umbrella all of the company’s gaming-related products for developers like Xbox Live, Azure PlayFab, Direct X, Mixer, Virtual ...

Scrabble is an iconic game, one of the best and most notable word games around and often imitated by various products over the years. However, Scopely has partnered with Hasbro and Mattel to bring ...

Wordiness is fun, isn’t it? Especially Scrabble, where at one point, it will make you question everything about your intellect. That’s the power of word games; they are easy and yet can be very ...