https://blog.photonengine.com Photon Engine: Multiplayer Made Simple Mon, 16 Mar 2026 08:32:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://blog.photonengine.com/wp-content/uploads/favicon-150x150.png https://blog.photonengine.com 32 32 https://blog.photonengine.com/photon-metaplay-multiplayer-live-service-games/ Mon, 16 Mar 2026 08:31:30 +0000 https://blog.photonengine.com/?p=7166 The gaming industry is now a $190 billion market, and multiplayer live service games make up a huge part of it. But while the opportunity has grown, so has the complexity. Players expect smooth,...]]> https://blog.photonengine.com/photon-reaches-1-4-billion-monthly-players/ Mon, 19 Dec 2022 16:30:02 +0000 https://blog.photonengine.com/?p=5265 As you read these lines, a player population the size of a large metropolis are sharing emotions, collaborating or fighting simultaneously in realtime on top of Photon. Millions are engaging with others in simulations...]]> https://blog.photonengine.com/new-strategic-partnership-skillz/ Tue, 03 Aug 2021 14:44:37 +0000 https://blog.photonengine.com/?p=5110 We are excited to share the news that we’ve entered into a strategic partnership with mobile games platform Skillz in the form of a $50M minority investment in our company. This means that we’ll...]]> https://blog.photonengine.com/photon-news-july-16/ Fri, 22 Jul 2016 16:48:43 +0000 http://blog.photonengine.com/?p=3433 Dear Photon Developer, On our mission to make multiplayer simple, we added additional regions to our Photon Cloud and explain why we think that our CCU based pricing is part of that mission. Read...]]> https://blog.photonengine.com/bolt-announcement/ Mon, 15 Jun 2015 13:39:45 +0000 http://blog.exitgames.com/?p=3125 A simple “Bam!” can hardly represent our excitement: BOLT, the popular networking engine for Unity, is now part of the Photon family. Fredrik Holmström, the inventor and mastermind behind BOLT, joins the Photon team...]]> https://blog.photonengine.com/newpricing-is-coming/ Fri, 24 Apr 2015 08:05:48 +0000 http://blog.exitgames.com/?p=3060 When we started Photon Cloud in 2012 our main vision was to provide not only the best multiplayer service in the world, but also a service for anyone: whether you are a AAA studio...]]> https://blog.photonengine.com/cross-platform-multiplayer-corona-sdk/ Fri, 16 Aug 2013 05:23:36 +0000 http://blog.exitgames.com/?p=2595 We’re happy to announce our new partnership with Corona Labs! Using the Photon Cloud plugin, Corona developers will be able to build and launch cross-platform real-time multiplayer games and join the ranks of hits...]]> https://blog.photonengine.com/playmaker-integrated-with-photon-cloud/ https://blog.photonengine.com/playmaker-integrated-with-photon-cloud/#comments Wed, 09 May 2012 13:13:32 +0000 http://blog.exitgames.com/?p=2033 ‘playMaker‘ by Hutong Games is one of the best selling tools in Unity’s Asset Store and that comes for a reason: by its super-intuitive visual state editor it empowers designer and artists to create...]]> https://blog.photonengine.com/playmaker-integrated-with-photon-cloud/feed/ 5 https://blog.photonengine.com/sketch-w-friends-rocks-the-photon-cloud-or-vice-versa/ Mon, 16 Apr 2012 10:40:24 +0000 http://blog.exitgames.com/?p=1894 I know it is a buzz word, yes, but I think it is really a Win-Win situation: The Photon Cloud makes it so easy to develop and run online games that anyone who wants...]]> https://blog.photonengine.com/featured-in-google-video/ Thu, 05 Apr 2012 12:36:56 +0000 http://blog.exitgames.com/?p=1867 We nearly fell off our office chairs when watching this video by Google introducing ‘A new way to multitask’. As it was April 1st it is apparently an April’s Fool joke and it is a good one, but...]]>