News Mar 5th, 2020

Rising R&D and admin costs hit Improbable's operating profit

Revenue hit $1.5m but cost of sales came in at $20.6m

• Financials
• SpatialOS
• cloud tech
• cloud streaming

News Feb 5th, 2020

SpatialOS firm Improbable buys German multiplayer service company Zeuz

“Joining Improbable gives us access to a huge amount of engineering experience and resource to take our managed hosting solution to the next level"

• Multiplayer
• Acquisition
• deal
• SpatialOS
• online games
• cloud games

News Sep 26th, 2019

Improbable has bought online service firm Multiplayer Guys

“The Multiplayer Guys have shown their ability to help studios large and small deliver better multiplayer experiences faster. We’re delighted to add The Multiplayer Guys’ skill and experience to the services we offer"

• Multiplayer
• Acquisition
• SpatialOS

News Sep 25th, 2019

Improbable pulled funding for Mavericks ahead of developer Automaton going into administration

"Improbable was unwilling to inject any further funds into the business in order to continue development of the Mavericks game, and as a result, the company was facing immediate cash flow issues."

• Funding
• SpatialOS
• administration
• mavericks: proving grounds

News Sep 13th, 2019

Bossa doesn't blame Improbable for Worlds Adrift's cancellation

"There are always challenges when you work with early-stage technology, but we worked with Improbable on those"

• SpatialOS
• worlds adrift
• game development
• emerging tech

News Sep 13th, 2019

Improbable snaps up Scavengers developer Midwinter

Becomes the third first-party studio at the cloud firm

• Acquisition
• SpatialOS
• developer

News Aug 16th, 2019

Developer Klang lands $22.3m funding for SpatialOS-powered MMO Seed

Led by Novator Partners, with Lego's VC arm chipping in some cash, too

• Funding
• Series B
• MMO
• SpatialOS
• seed

News Aug 13th, 2019

"Ambitious, visionary products always contain some risk," says Improbable after third SpatialOS project bites the dust

Cloud tech firm insists that these titles all were axed for different reasons

• SpatialOS
• worlds adrift
• mavericks
• cloud tech
• lazarus
• game cancellation

News Aug 12th, 2019

Spilt Milk cancels indie MMO Lazarus

This is the third SpatialOS title to bite the dust in the last three months

• MMO
• SpatialOS
• cancellation
• lazarus

Job News Mar 8th, 2019

BioWare vet Flynn is leading development on Improbable's first internal projects, SpatialOS firm has created a studio in London

Games being built on Epic's Unreal Engine 4, but aside from that details are scarce

• SpatialOS
• unreal engine 4
• development
• cloud tech

News Jan 24th, 2019

CryEngine SpatialOS game development kit in the works

Improbable and Crytek are also working on a triple-A project together

• SpatialOS
• cryengine
• game engine

News Jan 16th, 2019

Updated: Unity changes terms of service again, Improbable games allowed back on the platform

"But we do not consider them a partner, and cannot vouch for how their service works with Unity as we have no insight into their technology or how they run their business"

• SpatialOS
• game engine
• engine wars

News Jan 10th, 2019

Changes to Unity terms of service mean developers can't use engine with Improbable's SpatialOS

Studios using this tech together is breach of the middleware's terms

• SpatialOS
• engine
• terms of service

News Oct 25th, 2018

Unity GDK rollout saw highest single-day sign-ups for Improbable's SpatialOS since launch

Firm expecting a similar, but slightly lower, result from the Unity GDK which was announced today

• SpatialOS
• cloud tech
• gdk

News Feb 27th, 2018

Improbable is teaming up with French game developer Darewise Entertainment

Latest studio to team up with the London-based games firm

• SpatialOS
• cloud gaming