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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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"...

Games for Windows – Live or GFWL is a deprecated online gaming service used by Games for Windows–branded PC titles that enables Windows PCs to connect...

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...

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...

Steam is a digital distribution service and storefront developed by Valve Corporation. It was launched as a software client in September 2003 to provide...

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...

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...

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...

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

Twitch is an American video live-streaming service popular in video games, including broadcasts of esports competitions. It also offers music broadcasts...

Beast Games follows 1,000 contestants—the largest cast for a reality show—as they compete for the prize of $5 million, which is advertised as one of...

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...

services that enable further progression. Additionally, NPCs can be designed to serve functional roles in games, such as a merchant or to provide a service...

The service was acquired by French online video game service Metaboli in 2008 as a wholly owned subsidiary; Metaboli aimed to create a global games service...

China. In April 2017, Tencent Games unveiled its flagship gaming platform, WeGame which will host games, content, and services from all over the world and...

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...

distributes emulated retro games to subscribers of their Nintendo Switch Online service. Subscribers have access to games for the Nintendo Entertainment...

Software & Video Games is a digital video game distribution service owned by the international electronic commerce company Amazon.com. The service was launched...