Live service games released throughout 2025 are facing a steep and increasingly visible decline. Across multiple high-profile launches, player counts have dropped by as much as 90 percent compared to ...

Live-service games have redefined how people play, offering experiences that evolve long after launch. Unlike traditional games with fixed content, these titles provide continuous updates, seasonal ...

For most of the past decade, large parts of the games industry have been operating with a single, deceptively simple sounding guiding principle – that if you want to make real money, serious money, ...

This week, Sony reportedly cancelled two more live service games, a God of War multiplayer game from Bluepoint and an unknown live game from Bend. They join a pile of other cancelled live service ...

Earlier today, PlayStation and Guerrilla revealed Horizon Hunters Gathering, the next entry in the popular post-apocalyptic franchise. But this spin-off is a multiplayer-focused online co-op action ...

Live service games have taken on plenty of criticism over the years, and for good reason. Most of it has been pointed directly at their monetization models. Whether it’s battle passes or rotating ...