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ChatGPT Just Became A Live-Service Game
11.8.2025
OpenAI is reckoning with the wrath of fans for the first time
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PlayStation Admits Live-Service Gaming Is ‘Not Going Entirely Smoothly’
7.8.2025
That's perhaps something of an understatement following the spectacular collapse of Concord
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Ex-BioWare Producer Talks About Why Anthem Failed
6.8.2025
The loot shooter was forever haunted by an early live-service pitch meeting
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World Of Tanks Developer's Live-Service Shooter Shutting Down After Only Six Months
9.7.2025
Live-service game development has become the ultimate gamble for any publisher. If you get a hit, you’re set—money will pour in for as long as you can surf the wave. If you miss, countless millions are lost forever. Most of them miss. The latest game to spectacularly fail to be a long-running cash...
PlayStation Says Marathon Is Learning From Concord's Mistakes As It Doubles-Down On Live Service Gaming As A 'Key Strategic Pillar'
13.6.2025
It was just four years ago that Sony promised to launch 12 live service games by early 2026. Since then, many of those have been delayed, canceled, or taken offline. But that doesn’t seem to be deterring the console maker. PlayStation Studios CEO Hermen Hulst said in a new business update that live...
Ex-PlayStation Boss Shawn Layden Says He Left Sony In Part Because Of Pivot To Live Service
26.3.2025
For many fans, the PlayStation 4 years were defined by blockbuster single-player GOTY contenders like God of War and Spider-Man. Then the PS5 arrived in 2020 and Sony turned its attention to live-service gaming with the hopes of capturing a piece of the growing multiplayer market. Former executive...
Alan Wake 2 Devs Designed Their Multiplayer Shooter For People With Kids And Jobs
20.3.2025
Games from Remedy Entertainment—like Alan Wake 2, Control, and Max Payne—tend to be single player, third-person, linear adventures with cutscenes, lots of dialogue, and endings. FBC: Firebreak isn’t like those past games at all. And while it might disappoint some Remedy fans, I’m excited to see...
Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2 Promises It's Not Going Full Live-Service Game After Latest Botched Event
3.3.2025
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 is very much not a live-service game. That’s one of the things that felt so refreshing about the sci-fi shooter when players flocked to it last fall. But it felt eerily like one late last month when an in-game reward was locked behind a busted community event....
Rainbow Six Siege X Will 'Transform' The Live-Service Tactical Shooter
17.2.2025
The term “live-service game” has, in the last few months, become synonymous with enormous financial disasters. Hundreds of millions, possibly billions, have been lost over the past year to the hubristic concept of games people will want to keep playing, and investing in, for years to come. But it’s...
Nothing Is Safe From The Live-Service Grind, Not Even Sex Toys
14.2.2025
Sometimes I think back on the arrival of Achievements, when suddenly every minuscule or major accomplishment in an Xbox 360 game earned you a little congratulatory chime and persistent points to fuel your bragging rights. We didn’t know it then, but it now seems that was a harbinger for the modern...
EA Thinks Dragon Age: The Veilguard Would Have Done Better If It Were Live Service
5.2.2025
Electronic Arts CEO Andrew Wilson recently spoke on an earnings call about the underperformance of Dragon Age: The Veilguard, which reportedly reached 1.5 million players. This was apparently around half of what EA was projecting, but given the game was in development hell for a decade and was...
Obří selhání. Osm z dvanácti plánovaných her od Sony už bylo zrušeno
27.1.2025
Jim Ryan, dnes již bývalý šéf Sony Interactive Entertainment, prohlásil, že na PC a PlayStation 5 vyjde do konce března 2026 dvanáct live service her. To se ovšem nestane
PlayStation zrušil další dva live service projekty. Jeden z nich měl rozšířit univerzum God of War
17.1.2025
Sony Shuts Down Studio Behind Concord Less Than Two Years After Buying It
29.10.2024
Firewalk Studios is shutting down, Sony announced in a press release on Tuesday. The team was responsible for Concord, the company’s sci-fi hero shooter that bombed so badly it was taken offline just weeks after it’s launcher earlier this year. The news comes less than two years after...
These 9 Live-Service Games Launched And Died In Record Time
5.9.2024
Recently, Sony announced that its next big live-service shooter, Concord, was closing up and the servers were being turned off. It was a surprising and unprecedented move. Usually, AAA live-service games are given more time to turn things around. Read more
After Just A Year, Capcom's Live-Service Dino Game Is Going Extinct
5.7.2024
Capcom announced today that after just a year of updates, its live-service dino killin’ game—Exoprimal—will be going on life support as it has no further plans to add new seasonal content to the game after its last update. Read more
PlayStation Reversing Course On Helldivers 2 Is Both Smart And A Sign Of How Inept It Is
6.5.2024
Last week, Arrowhead Studios announced that an upcoming update to its hit co-op shooter Helldivers 2 would require existing PC players on Steam to make a PlayStation Network account to continue playing. If they didn’t, they’d lose access to their Helldivers accounts, and that news did not land...
Publishers Pivoting To Live-Service Games Have Most Devs Worried
16.4.2024
A newly published survey shows that most game developers aren’t too sure about live-service video games—like Destiny 2 and Suicide Squad—representing a sustainable future for the industry, and think the return of paid DLC might be a better option instead. Read more
Hra ze světa Harryho Pottera masivně uspěla, Warner Bros to nestačí
7.3.2024
Ačkoli se kouzelnická záležitost Hogwarts Legacy stala nejprodávanější hrou roku 2023 ve Spojených státech, herní divize Warner Bros vidí svoji budoucnost v mobilních, free 2 play a live service hrách, které jí poskytnou stálý příjem
After Suicide Squad ‘Disappoints,’ WB Doubles Down On Live-Service Games
5.3.2024
The best-selling game of 2023 was Hogwarts Legacy. Yet, despite that single-player title selling 22 million copies, publisher Warner Bros. Discovery will be pivoting away from single-player AAA console games and toward free-to-play, live service, and mobile releases. This comes from a Morgan...