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Global video game commerce company Xsolla recently introduced integrated backend solutions for game developers through a founding partnership with AccelByte, a fully managed extensible games backend platform, and opened a closed testing program for a combined solution that pairs AccelByte Gaming Services (AGS) with Xsolla's global payments and monetization tools. Select developers can now apply for early access and help shape the integration ahead of its broader launch.
As studios scale live games across PC, mobile, console, and the web, managing player persistence, gaming backend, and global transactions adds cost and slows launches. Through the founding partnership with AccelByte, Xsolla brings AccelByte's backend services together with its own payments and monetization in one integrated stack, so studios no longer need to stitch separate solutions together on their own. The integration is shaped by direct input from studios shipping live games today. During the closed testing period, partner studios will help validate:
• Developer-centric foundation: Being built with input from studios and developers actively shipping live games across regions, platforms, and player types. Test partners will directly shape the feature set and modular implementation options.
• Integrated backend and payments: Will combine AccelByte's backend services, including player management, matchmaking, store, and AI-powered integration tools and analytics, with Xsolla's payment, subscription, monetization, and identity services in an interoperable layer.
• Simplified deployment without heavy engineering: Designed so studios can stand up and operate live game services without building backend infrastructure in-house or staffing dedicated LiveOps teams, reducing time-to-market and accelerating iteration cycles.
• Global monetization coverage: Through Xsolla's global game payment platform, participating studios gain access to over 1,000 payment methods across more than 200 geographies, opening new revenue channels for games.
“We're building this backend and game services integration with AccelByte by listening to developers who use both of our platforms. Our first test partners will help us prove that a studio can stand up backend services and global payments together, without staffing separate teams for each, and get to market faster as a result,” said Xsolla President Chris Hewish. “AccelByte's comprehensive and scalable platform and toolset is now more accessible and easier for developers to integrate and operate. We’re excited to partner with Xsolla, which shares our belief in making powerful technology accessible to studios of every size. By combining our technology and expertise, we can help studios launch faster, operate smarter, and reach players globally,” said AccelByte CEO and Technical Director Junaili Lie. The closed testing program is limited to a small group of studios ahead of a broader rollout. Developers can meet both teams at gamescom 2026 in Cologne, Germany at the Xsolla booth in Hall 2.2, #A030-B035, or register their interest in the program at xsolla.pro/backend.
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Xsolla Partner Network Expands Verified Creator Partnerships And Unifies Campaign Management Ahead Of gamescom 2026
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Ahead of gamescom 2026, Xsolla announced an expansion of the Xsolla Partner Network, giving game developers a simpler, more reliable way to grow their games through creators. The creator platform now lives within Xsolla Publisher Account where developers already run their business, with verified creator onboarding and a redesigned and unified campaign workflow. Flat-fee campaigns, a new guaranteed payment option alongside revenue share, and data-driven creator recommendations are coming soon. Xsolla Partner Network gives developers one place to launch, manage, track, and report on creator campaigns while Xsolla handles payments, payouts, taxes, and compliance.
Verified creators, less guesswork.
Automated anti-fraud vetting and identity verification at payout means developers partner with real, verified creators and campaigns reach genuine audiences.
One campaign system, coming soon.
Campaign management will be redesigned and unified, so video game key campaigns and revenue-share campaigns run through a single workflow. Developers will launch and manage all creator activity from one place, with the attribution depth to see every click, sale, and dollar a campaign drives.
Flat-fee campaigns, coming soon.
Revenue-share campaigns will soon be joined by flat-fee campaigns, giving developers a new way to attract creators who want a guaranteed payment rather than a percentage-based one and helping keep creators invested for the duration of a campaign.
One home for creators.
Creators now run their entire business from a Creator Business Account on Xsolla.com: campaigns, earnings, payouts, storefronts, and streaming tools including alerts, overlays, chatbot, widgets, and tipping. The tools creators rely on do not change, and creator storefronts remain right where their fans already shop. What changes is that everything now lives in one place, on the same platform their publishing partners already use.
“The way players discover games has changed for good. They find their next game through people they watch and trust, not through ads they skip, and that puts creators at the center of how every game grows from here. The problem is that most studios were never built for this. They don't have a creator marketing department. They have one person, a budget, and no time to vet a hundred channels or chase down payouts across a dozen countries. That's the gap Partner Network closes. Every creator is verified, every campaign runs through one workflow, and every payment is handled, all inside the account developers already use to run their game. One person can now run a creator program that used to take an entire team, and that changes who gets to compete,” said Hewish. Developers can learn more about Xsolla Partner Network at xsolla.com/partner-network. Creators can get started at xsolla.com/for/creators.
