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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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"...

play video games for Xbox video game consoles or Microsoft Windows PCs from a rotating library, with the games remaining accessible as long as the user...

intelligence has been an integral part of video games since their inception in the 1950s. AI in video games is a distinct subfield and differs from academic...

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...

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

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...

The United States Secret Service (USSS or Secret Service) is a federal law enforcement agency under the Department of Homeland Security with the purpose...

service allows users to download or purchase video games (including both Xbox Live Arcade games and full Xbox 360 titles), add-ons for existing games...

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...

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...

November 2017, Perfect World shut down Runic Games, citing the publisher's focus on games as a service. On 25 February 2016, Perfect World hosted Dota...

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...

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...

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...

offered the option to purchase games from its store, along with a selection of free-to-play games. While the base service was free and allowed users to...

Genesis, such as Pier Solar and the Great Architects. A few games were only released exclusively on the Sega Channel subscription service, which was active...