Assassin's Creed Infinity Won't be an F2P Game
The upcoming Assassin's Creed will not be a free-to-play game. Such information was revealed during the recent investor call.
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Przemyslaw Dygas
October 29, 2021
Impostors is Fortnite's New Mode Inspired by Among Us
Epic Games' billion-dollar game Fortnite added an Impostors mode, inspired by last year's popular hit Among Us.
video games
August 17, 2021
Battlefield Aims at Live-service Model; EA Wants Players Engaged 365 Days a Year
Battlefield 2042 is supposed to usher in a new form of development for the franchise, one that is more like a service than a series of standalone games. Among other things, EA wants new installments released every two years. Free components are also being considered.
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Adrian Werner
August 5, 2021
EA is Making a Ton of Money on Live-service Games
Live-service games like Apex Legends and FUT mode in FIFA 21 remain a vein of gold for Electronic Arts. Meanwhile, the publisher is reporting diminishing revenues from sales of its titles.
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Jacob Blazewicz
August 5, 2021
Sony's New Exclusive From Jade Raymond to be a Live-service Game
According to an anonymous recruiter who provided information to the Italian website Multiplayer.it, Sony's new exclusive title from Jade Raymond is expected to be a live-service game.
video games
July 21, 2021
Ubisoft Confirms Assassin's Creed Will Switch to Live-service Formula
Ubisoft admitted that the future of the Assassin's Creed series lies in the live-service model. At the same time, we were assured that Infinity will retain the character of the previous installments.
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Przemyslaw Dygas
July 21, 2021
Assassin's Creed Infinity May be a Live-service Game, Claims Jason Schreier
Jason Schreier revealed what we can expect from the Assassin's Creed series in the future. According to the journalist, the next project associated with the franchise will be a huge live-service game.
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Przemyslaw Dygas
July 7, 2021
Ultimate Team Modes Bring EA $3k Per Minute
Ultimate Team packs continue to bring Electronic Arts huge money. According to the company's financial report, last year alone the revenue from lootboxes in sports series like FIFA amounted to more than one and a half billion dollars.
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Jacob Blazewicz
May 28, 2021
EA With Record Revenue; Plans to Develop Live-service Games
Electronic Arts boasted record revenue in last fiscal year, with as much as $4 billion coming from live-service games (LGS). CEO Andrew Wilson talks about further development of the category.
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Angelika Kaldus
May 12, 2021
New Projects From Warner Bros. Games Bet on Live-service Model
Everything seems to indicate that Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment will emphasize the so-called live-service games. This follows from the announcement on the developer's website about internship offers.
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Edwin Witaszek
January 26, 2021
Microtransactions Dominate; Game Sales Revenue Becomes Secondary
According to Newzoo analysts, this year as much as 74% of the industry's revenue will come from microransactions. The sales of premium games will provide only 21%.
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Adrian Werner
June 26, 2020
Hideo Kojima: Death Stranding's Success Funded Next Game
In a recently published interview for Livedoor, Hideo Kojima confirmed the success of Death Stranding. He also mentioned ongoing work on the next production and presented his vision of the future of the industry. In his opinion, traditional AAA titles will be replaced by cheaper live-service games.
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Damian Gacek
May 30, 2020
Rainbow Six Siege With 60 Million Players; The Division 2 Makes Up for Losses
Ubisoft's new financial report showed how good of an idea it is to support games for many years. The company boasts record results for Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Siege. Despite a poor start, The Division 2 is currently doing very well, and Assassin's Creed: Odyssey earns much better than AC Origins.
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Adrian Werner
May 15, 2020
Leak: New BioShock Will be a Live Service Game
A job offer published by 2K Games shows that the company is looking for a senior game designer who would take care of the post-release content for the new live service game. Unfortunately, the said game will probably be the new BioShock.
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Konrad Serafinski
November 9, 2019
Apex Legends Has 70 Million Players, EA Boosts Investment in Live-service
70 million people have already played in Apex Legends. The success of the production, as well as the FIFA Ultimate Team and Madden Ultimate Team modes, has increased the importance of digital sources of revenue to EA and the company intends to invest more in live-service games.
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Adrian Werner
October 30, 2019
Ubisoft Won't Go Back to Making Smaller Games Like... AC Unity
Yves Guillemot, CEO of Ubisoft, said in an interview that the company no longer intends to develop games with stories lasting only for a dozen or so hours. Instead, it wants to focus on creating titles that enable for the experience of many such adventures in one game.
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Paul Wozniak
September 11, 2019
DICE is Not Interested in Creating Star Wars Battlefront 3
Dennis Brännvall from DICE informed that the team has no plans for Star Wars: Battlefront 3. The developer prefers to concentrate on developing the second installment, which has regained the sympathy of the fans after a less than stellar launch.
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Adrian Werner
September 3, 2019
Maxis, The Sims Devs, are Working on New Live Service Game
Maxis begins working on a new, non-Sims, long-term live service AAA game, which will keep you chained to your computers. And mobile devices. At least that's how (more or less) the creators of a job offer for a new creative director see it.
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Julia Dragovic
August 26, 2019
EA is Disappointed With Anthem, but Won't Abandon the Franchise
During E3 2019, the CEO of Electronic Arts gave an interview to GameDaily.biz. The topic was, among others, the online shooter Anthem, as well as the future of the devs behind it - BioWare.
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Bart Swiatek
June 21, 2019
Take-Two Wants to Speed Up Game Development by Limiting Launch Content
Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick said in an interview for GamesIndustry.biz that games will be slightly smaller in the future. The development time is also to be shortened. In return, we will receive more post-release content.
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Bart Swiatek
June 19, 2019