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Show Me the Money: Receipt Validation for iOS and Android
PlayFab’s API calls make it easy to set receipt validation for your game, giving you a reliable record of all real-money purchases and ensuring that players actually get the items they’ve bought. By including receipt validation and player inventory updates in the same server-side transactions, you can protect your virtual economy from real-world problems.
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Introducing Game Manager 2.0
PlayFab launches Game Manager 2.0 as an improvement on our established live game operations platform. Improvements include integrated CloudScript features, push notification control, user profile controls, and more.
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A Look Back at PlayFab’s First Year
PlayFab has had an eventful first year. Here's a look back at some major highlights from 2014.
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PlayFab Comes to PS4
Loadout launched for the PS4 this week, and marks PlayFab's first console support client. Through collaboration and creativity, the launch has been a huge success.
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6 Gaming Trends to Watch in 2015 (and Three to Ignore)
James Gwertzman shares his predictions for 2015 gaming trends to watch - and ignore.
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Video: PlayFab at AWS re:Invent 2014
Nate Wiger and James Gwertzman give a talk at Amazon Web Services re:Invent conference to present the real-world case study about PlayFab's use of AWS to host the game Loadout.
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DFC Intelligence Report: PlayFab Monetizes Backend
DFC Intelligence shares their dossier on PlayFab, Inc.
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VentureBeat Article - T-minus 1 million Players and Counting: A Cautionary Tale for Online Developers
Siva Katir is featured as a guest blogger on VentureBeat, with a cautionary tale exploring why so many big games fail shortly after launching.
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Announcing Integration with Segment.io
PlayFab users can now take advantage of our newest feature that grants the ability to send PlayFab analytics event data to Segment.io, which in turn can then route that data to nearly 120 other companies, including companies that do analytics, marketing automation, CRM, advertising, error reporting, and user testing.
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Gift-Giving, PlayFab Style
Here's a quick how-to on gifting a player within the PlayFab service; whether it's a reward for an in-game activity, tied to a holiday, a player-to-player gift, a celebration of the anniversary of your game's launch, or just because you feel like it.