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Case Study: Throwback Entertainment modernizes cloud gaming with Microsoft Azure and Red Hat
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Azure platform supports Red Hat Linux for popular and profitable cloud gaming
Throwback Entertainment, a small Canadian game developer, sought to modernize a classic 1998 title, Iggy’s Reckin Balls, with new features like group play and HD graphics. This required a flexible and highly available cloud platform to support a cutting-edge back-end for this cloud gaming initiative. The company turned to Microsoft and its Azure platform to meet this challenge.
Microsoft provided a solution using Azure, which offered robust support for Red Hat Linux, Docker containers, and Kubernetes orchestration. This allowed Throwback to successfully launch a radically modernized and highly profitable game that supports 8-player groups. The results included a secure, stable, and scalable gaming experience for all ages, built on the Azure platform.
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Throwback Entertainment
Richard Hum
Studio Head