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In 2026, that bet looks increasingly like a bad call. With many of Sony’s first-party live service games crumbling under the weight of expectation or the scorn of gamers, the company has severely ...

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 ...

TL;DR: Sony's plan to launch 10 live service games by 2026 fell short, with only a few releases like MLB The Show 26 and Helldivers 2 achieving strong sales. After costly failures like Concord and ...

The publisher saw a massive plummet in its operating profits, and it attributes that to an overreliance on the isekai genre ...

To say it’s hard to keep a live-service game afloat these days would be a massive understatement. Developers across the games industry have tried to put their own spin on ongoing multiplayer games, ...

GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. New research suggests that the biggest challenge facing live-service ...