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...
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"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...
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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...
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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...
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AAA (video game industry) (redirect from AAA video games)
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...
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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...
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Cloud gaming (redirect from Cloud gaming service)
cloud gaming services are based on access to a virtualized Windows environment, allowing users to download and install games and software as they normally...
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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...
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Online game (redirect from Internet games)
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...
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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...
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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...
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Video game (redirect from Computer games)
smartphone games in particular are altering player demographics towards casual gaming and increasing monetization by incorporating games as a service. Today...
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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"...
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History of Sega (redirect from Service Games)
Sega, a Japanese multinational video game and entertainment company, has roots tracing back to American Standard Games in 1940 and Service Games of Japan...
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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...
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been an integral part of video games since their inception in the 1948, first seen in the game Nim. AI in video games is a distinct subfield and differs...
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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...
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Casual game (redirect from Casual games)
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...
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Single-player video game (redirect from Single player video games)
Mankind Divided) against financially successful multiplayer games and those offer a games-as-a-service model (Overwatch, Destiny 2, and Star Wars Battlefront...
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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...
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Lionhead Studios (redirect from Intrepid Games)
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...
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rise of many digital distribution services on PC, such as Amazon Digital Services, Impulse, GameTap, GameStop, Games for Windows – Live, Origin, Battle...
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PlayStation Network (redirect from Playstation games network)
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...
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Xbox Game Pass (redirect from Game Pass (service))
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...
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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...
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Video game preservation (redirect from Stop Killing Games)
nature of the game over time, such as those offered as games as a service such as MMOs and mobile games. These games also face issues when the supporting...
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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...
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third-party services. Twitch has also explicitly banned specific games from streaming, regardless of rating; this includes games such as BMX XXX, eroge...
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Google Stadia (redirect from Stadia (streaming service))
Stadia was a cloud gaming service developed and operated by Google. Known in development as Project Stream, the service debuted through a closed beta in...
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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...
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