Retention is now the biggest challenge for live-service games, with even major hits struggling to keep players engaged long ...

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Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Live service games are one of the best ways to generate continuous income as a game studio or ...

A surge in live service games has had an interesting effect on how games are developed and how we play them. Everyone loves getting a game for free, but the end cost of 'free' depends on how exactly ...

For more than a quarter-century, game makers have chased live-service games. Ultima Online, Everquest, and World of Warcraft turned game buyers into long-term subscribers, and in the wake of ...

But the hit PS5 live service game might not be either of those games, and the fact that Sony isn’t making a big deal about it has me even more excited. Teased at the very end of the last Ghost of ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Cosmetic microtransactions are everywhere in today’s live service games, from character skins to ...

The industry’s shift toward live service games that are updated for years has studios unwilling to embrace the power of mortality. By Jamal Michel Twenty years ago, while the credits rolled on Shadow ...

Kourtnee covers TV streaming services and home entertainment. She previously worked as an entertainment reporter at Showbiz Cheat Sheet, where she wrote about film, television, music, celebrities and ...

During the festive season here at TheGamer, we tend to publish a bunch of features that are full of bittersweet nostalgia, or hopeful anticipation of what’s in store for us in the world of video games ...

To say it’s hard to keep a live-service game afloat these days would be a massive understatement. Developers across the games industry have tried to put their own spin on ongoing multiplayer games, ...

According to Shawn Layden, a live-service game "isn't really a game." The former PlayStation executive said in an interview that a live-service game is better described as a "repetitive action ...