PlayerScale
| Subsidiary | |
| Industry | e-commerce, internet advertising, social gaming |
| Founded | 2009[1][2] |
| Headquarters | Belmont, California[3][4] |
Key people |
Jesper Jensen (CEO)[1] John Vifian (COO)[2] Chris Benjaminsen (CPO)[2] Oliver Pedersen (CTO)[2] |
| Products | Player.IO |
Number of employees | 14 (January 2013)[3] |
| Parent | Yahoo! |
| Website |
gamesnet |
PlayerScale, Inc. is a Belmont-based[3][4] gaming infrastructure provider.[4][5] As of 23 May 2013 it operates as a subsidiary of Yahoo!,[2][4] but it is still functioning as a stand-alone business unit.[6]
Player.IO
PlayerScale's Player.IO is a platform for online games.[4] It works across consoles, the web, PCs, Macs, and on mobile phones.[3] Player.IO is used on a daily basis by an estimated 150 million people worldwide.[1][4] It works with various programming languages, including C++, Java, .NET, Objective-C, HTML5, Unity, Flash, iOS and Android.[3] The platform includes payment processing, online chat, analytics, virtual currencies, distributed caching, authentication, social login, leaderboards, localization, among other things.[7]
Everybody Edits
One of the Player.IO showcase projects is the maze-based platform game Everybody Edits.[8] During his lecture at the 2011 Flash Gaming Summit, PlayerScale chief product officer and Player.IO co-founder Benjaminsen revealed that the game, initially published on Flash game portal Newgrounds, had accumulated around 250 thousand registered users in seven months and was making $10,000 monthly.[9]
See also
References
- 1 2 3 Taylor, Colleen (23 May 2013). "Yahoo Acquires Gaming Infrastructure Startup PlayerScale". TechCrunch. Retrieved 20 July 2014.
- 1 2 3 4 5 "PlayerScale, Inc.: Private Company Information - Businessweek". Bloomberg Businessweek. Retrieved 20 July 2014.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Takahashi, Dean (28 January 2013). "PlayerScale handles behind-the-scenes infrastructure for games — and 100 million players". VentureBeat. Retrieved 20 July 2014.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Preimesberger, Chris (23 May 2013). "Yahoo Buys Another Startup in Online Gamer PlayerScale". eWeek. Retrieved 20 July 2014.
- ↑ "How Yahoo's acquisitions fit into Mayer's master plan". CNN. Retrieved 20 July 2014.
- ↑ Williams, Steven; Perez, Madeline (6 July 2014). "Yahoo's acquisition strategy is actually a talent strategy". The Washington Post. Retrieved 20 July 2014.
- ↑ Koetsier, John (23 May 2013). "Marissa Mayer and Yahoo are on fire, acquiring gaming company PlayerScale". VentureBeat. Retrieved 20 July 2014.
- ↑ "Player.IO Showcase: Games, Projects and more built with Player.IO - Player.IO". PlayerScale. Archived from the original on 20 May 2013. Retrieved 20 July 2014.
- ↑ Crossley, Rob (28 February 2011). "How I made a $10k-per-month Flash game in my spare time". Develop. Retrieved 20 July 2014.
External links
- Official website (Yahoo! Games Network)
- Old PlayerScale website at the Internet Archive