GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Live-service games are a large and durable part of the gaming ecosystem, and new data from last month demonstrates just how dominant the biggest games ...

Circana’s Mat Piscatella has revealed that over 40% of the total time spent playing games on PS5 and Xbox Series X/S in the US last month was attributed to live service titles. Speaking on BlueSky, ...

TL;DR: Sony remains strongly committed to live service games despite recent cancellations, focusing on a targeted, controlled approach. Successes like Helldivers II highlight their strategy to build ...

An unannounced God of War live service game has reportedly been cancelled by Sony, alongside another live service game that was in the works at Days Gone developer Bend Studio. This is according to a ...

Anyone that keeps up with this data throughout the year will know most of the usual suspects are present. Call of Duty, NBA 2K, Grand Theft Auto 5, and EA Sports FC (a.k.a. FIFA) are typically in the ...

Players are still very much focused on a handful of live-service games, as over 70 percent of PS5 and Xbox Series X/S players ...

Horizon developer Guerrilla Games’ next project is the live service Horizon Online project, Bloomberg reporter Jason Schreier has said. Schreier told Spawn Wave’s Spawncast the promised Horizon 3 ...

If there’s one sign we can take from the unprecedented number of layoffs across the games industry these past two years, it’s that we’re in the midst of an identity crisis. The industry isn’t in any ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. As CEO of Bungie, Harold Ryan helped push the live-service genre forward with Halo and Destiny. Years after leaving Bungie, Ryan says he's observed ...

TL;DR: Helldivers 2 was initially planned as a free-to-play PS5 launch title but shifted to a premium $40 game, reflecting Sony's strategy to blend live service microtransactions with AAA content.

Live-service gaming is in a difficult, transitional moment. Even as the sector consumes more and more millions of player hours, successful new launches are few and far between, and the frequency of ...

Recently, Sony announced that its next big live-service shooter, Concord, was closing up and the servers were being turned off. It was a surprising and unprecedented move. Usually, AAA live-service ...