game industry, games as a service (GaaS) (also referred to as a live service game) represents providing video games or game content on a continuing revenue...

"X as a service" (rendered as *aaS in acronyms) is a phrasal template for any business model in which a product use is offered as a subscription-based...

Tencent, who had several games under their banner (including Riot Games' League of Legends) operating successfully as games as a service. In exchange for Tencent's...

video games as a form of art is a commonly debated topic within the entertainment industry. Though video games have been afforded legal protection as creative...

Steve Jackson Games, Inc. v. United States Secret Service, 816 F. Supp. 432 (W.D. Tex. 1993), was a lawsuit arising from a 1990 raid by the United States...

a similar fashion to massively multiplayer online games, by using games-as-a-service methods such as season passes and expansion packs. The similar construction...

cloud gaming services are based on access to a virtualized Windows environment, allowing users to download and install games and software as they normally...

and Valve hardware such as the Index and Steam Deck. The service is the largest digital distribution platform for PC games, with an estimated 75% of...

a common trend among online games has been to operate them as games as a service, using monetization schemes such as loot boxes and battle passes as purchasable...

company's primary focus is on acquiring and operating older free-to-play games as a service. They are the current owners and developers of the massively multiplayer...

smartphone games in particular are altering player demographics towards casual gaming and increasing monetization by incorporating games as a service. Today...

Mankind Divided) against financially successful multiplayer games and those offer a games-as-a-service model (Overwatch, Destiny 2, and Star Wars Battlefront...

Sega, a Japanese multinational video game and entertainment company, has roots tracing back to American Standard Games in 1940 and Service Games of Japan...

relatively young concept in gaming: Games as a service. Blakely, Lindsay; Helm, Burt (December 2016). "Why Riot Games Is Inc.'s 2016 Company of the Year"...

as Daum Games before the acquisition of Daum, Kakao Games has expanded from game distribution solely in Korea. Now, Kakao Games distributes its games...

Games for Windows – Live or GFWL (trademarked as Games for Windows – LIVE) is a deprecated online gaming service used by Games for Windows–branded PC titles...

content in games is commonly used as a marketing tool, but many highly sexualized games do not feature any explicitly adult content. Though some games do use...

Perfect World said the closure was to reflect their company's focus on games as a service. One set of developers from Runic, including Marsh Lefler, Patrick...

A casual game is a video game targeted at a mass market audience, as opposed to a hardcore game, which is targeted at hobbyist gamers. Casual games may...

or services that enable further progression. As well as, NPC's can be designed to serve functional roles in games, such as a merchant or to provide a service...

This is a listing of the best-selling video games in the United States annually by units sold since 1980, with sales figures from The NPD Group since...

distributed by means of a third-party service that functions in the same way as a physical store, selling a variety of games from many different developers...

offered as games as a service, as similarly, the bulk of revenue in such games comes from a small percentage of the overall population. There is a trend[citation...

games are a subgenre of serious storytelling, where storytelling is applied "outside the context of entertainment, where the narration progresses as a...

rise of many digital distribution services on PC, such as Amazon Digital Services, Impulse, GameTap, GameStop, Games for Windows – Live, Origin, Battle...

Tencent Games partly owns battle royale games such as Fortnite and fully own Ring of Elysium. Starting in 2016, Tencent Games developed a video gaming...

Game Pass is a subscription service as part of Xbox and offered by Microsoft Gaming. Launched on June 1, 2017, the service allows users to download and...

Entertainment Network in 2015 and this service is the account for PlayStation consoles, accounts can store games and other content. As of December 2023, over 123...

Molyneux's departure, Microsoft had Lionhead switch to developing games as a service games. As a result, there were many changes within the studio. In early...

The service launched on September 19, 2019. It offers video games that exclude practices such as in-app purchases and advertisements. Most games on the...