On the surface, it seems like turning a live service video game into something that's playable offline is easy. In reality, these live service games are far more complex and rely on server-side ...

Developers and publishers don’t want us leaving their games behind and are working to keep us coming back for more. Find out how the games as a service model is changing the way we play.

Games as a service may be on the brink of change, but it's not going away forever. It may shift toward a library-based model like xCloud and Stadia, or publishers could take a more varied approach.

Real Racing 3 is one of EA’s strongest performing games-as-a-service title nearly two years after its release. The strong gameplay experience, excellent graphics and regular content updates has kept ...

The games-as-a-service approach has introduced the hobby to gold farming, criminal fraud, bait-and-switch practices, absurd DLC schemes, games that ship in an incomplete state, and games that will ...

That is the problem that Games as a Service must solve — it’s not items or gear score that captivate players in 2018, but the ability to make memories.

The Fandom survey also found that, as one might imagine, games-as-a-service titles like Genshin Impact have a generally more active playerbase, with 63.2% saying they are actively playing the game.

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While single-player games aren't going away anytime soon, confidence in the industry has sunk to an all-time low. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission ...

Forget Games as a Service. Console manufacturers want you as part of their ecosystem whether you use their device or not, so Daily Reaction looks at the possible future of a "Consoles as a Service ...

Other big games-as-a-service winners in 2018 include the asymmetric multiplayer horror game Dead By Daylight, which undoubtedly profited from its primary genre competitor, Friday the 13th: The ...