live service gaming

Verdict: if you have one weekend slot for Xbox Free Play Days, install Dead by Daylight first because the June 19–22, 2025 window makes it the lineup’s most urgent live-service test drive, with discounted follow-through available only for a limited time. Treat the rest of the Free Play Days...

Epic Games’ latest round of layoffs has done more than shrink headcount; it has reopened a painful debate about how a blockbuster live-service business should be run in 2026. After the company said it was cutting 1,000 jobs amid a Fortnite engagement downturn, CEO Tim Sweeney tried to soften the...

Call of Duty still sits comfortably near the top of the U.S. console play charts while Battlefield 6 — despite being the best-selling shooter of the year — has cooled on consoles and even slipped out of Circana’s recent top-ten weekly engagement snapshot. This divergence between sales and...