Article: How Microsoft is giving its customers ‘a slap in the face, but in a...
Matt Weinberger of Business Insider talks to James Niesewand, the CEO of Illyriad Games, about the new Microsoft and their genuine cultural shift. Check it out on the Business Insider, Enterprise...
View ArticleVideo: Age of Ascent at the Microsoft Build 2016 Keynote Presentation
Our video and demonstration of our Service Fabric use by Scott Hanselman starts at 54 minutes in. GM Rikoo
View ArticleVideo: Age of Ascent at the Azure Service Fabric for Developers presentation
Ben Adams gives a brief talk about Age of Ascent and Service Fabric at 44 minutes in! GM Rikoo
View ArticleVideo: Gaming at Cloud Scale with James Niesewand and Ben Adams
Building a shardless, real-time twitch MMO in the cloud requires new ways of thinking. In this session Illyriad Games share practical insights from the development of Age of Ascent that can be applied...
View ArticleVideo: Microsoft Cloud Allows Age of Ascent To Handle 50,000 Players in Same...
When Illyriad wanted to create a game of a massive scale never before achieved, they turned to Azure, ASP.NET and Azure Service Fabric to engage over 50,000 players, through the browser on any device....
View ArticleArticle: Microsoft Azure cloud services tuck ops under the covers
We have some more great coverage featured today! Check out the quote below, and read the full article! One of the more impressive demos involved the use of microservices to build and manage a new video...
View ArticleArticle: Microsoft at Build: 10 Spoken and Unspoken Messages
Check out number 10! Microsoft at Build: 10 Spoken and Unspoken Messages Guthrie said much of Azure and Office 365 was built with Service Fabric, and also showed how the Age of Ascent game used these...
View ArticleAge of Ascent Build Conference News Roundup!
Videos! Keynote Presentation https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2016/KEY02 Gaming at Cloud Scale https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2016/T622 (Watch the whole thing!) Azure Service Fabric for...
View ArticleArticle: A Chat With the Creators of Age of Ascent, an Ultra-MMO Powered by...
UK studio Illyriad Games are literally aiming for the stars. Their latest project, Age of Ascent, is an Ultra-MMO where dozens of thousands of players can play in the same battle (they’ve tested up to...
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