Weekly freshness sweep (2026-08)

[comparegamebackends-updates]

Summary

Four platforms updated with verified, sourced changes from official documentation. No edits to lib/architecture.ts or lib/ai-capabilities.ts — no material architectural changes found. All changes are in lib/backends.ts.

Changes per platform

PlayFab — pricingDetails corrected

• What changed: Development Mode free tier limit corrected from 100K players to 1,000 unique users per title, effective March 11 2026 per the Microsoft docs page.
• Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/gaming/playfab/pricing/development-mode
• lastUpdated: 2026-06 → 2026-08

Heroic Labs (Nakama) — iapValidation expanded

• What changed: IAP validation now explicitly covers Facebook Instant Games and Samsung Galaxy Store in addition to Apple, Google, and Huawei. Samsung Galaxy Store support (PurchaseValidateSamsung module function, SAMSUNG_GALAXY_STORE enum) shipped in Nakama v3.40.0 (July 13 2026).
• Source: https://heroiclabs.com/docs/nakama/getting-started/release-notes/ (v3.40.0 entry)
• lastUpdated: 2026-02 → 2026-08

brainCloud — seasonalContent and multiplatformSDK updated

• What changed (seasonalContent): Group Tournaments added in brainCloud 6.0 (June 2026) — clans and guilds can now compete as single entities with shared scores and automatic division bucketing.
• What changed (multiplatformSDK): Godot support now includes a native GDScript plugin (alongside the existing C# binding), added in brainCloud 6.0.
• Source for both: https://updates.braincloudservers.com/braincloud-6-0-with-brainbot-is-here-1x54Sk
• lastUpdated: 2026-02 → 2026-08

Colyseus — multiplayer updated

• What changed: Automatic client reconnection (with configurable exponential backoff and message buffering) was added in Colyseus v0.17 (February 2026) and is not reflected in the previous entry.
• Source: https://docs.colyseus.io/room/reconnection
• lastUpdated: 2026-02 → 2026-08

Neutrality check

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Every edit is sourced and must pass the neutrality check before merge.

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