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Bethesda vet says subscription services are hurting devs News Sep 8th, 2025

Bethesda vet says subscription services are hurting devs

Former marketing and comms boss Pete Hines says the current ecosystem needs to support studios more

Larian boss says company won't bring games to subscription services News Jan 18th, 2024

Larian boss says company won't bring games to subscription services

"Whatever the future of games looks like, content will always be king"

DFC: PC and console market to hit record $72bn in 2022 News Jun 29th, 2022

DFC: PC and console market to hit record $72bn in 2022

This growth driven by subscription services

Xbox Game Pass now boasts 18m subscribers News Jan 27th, 2021

Xbox Game Pass now boasts 18m subscribers

Microsoft's games business brought in $5bn in this quarter for the first time ever

EA Play for Xbox Game Pass PC delayed until 2021 News Dec 16th, 2020

EA Play for Xbox Game Pass PC delayed until 2021

No reason given why this has been bumped

Microsoft still eying more studio acquisitions News Nov 12th, 2020

Microsoft still eying more studio acquisitions

Xbox boss Spencer says having a constant stream of content is essential for its ecosystem

Take-Two once again expresses scepticism over games subscription services News Nov 9th, 2020

Take-Two once again expresses scepticism over games subscription services

President Karl Slatoff says that he doubts this model will be the primary way people play

EA to rebrand Origin PC app News Sep 15th, 2020

EA to rebrand Origin PC app

Firm says that bringing its games to Steam was about "democratising" games

Microsoft to increase PC Xbox Game Pass price News Sep 10th, 2020

Microsoft to increase PC Xbox Game Pass price

And EA Play titles come to the subscription service

EA Play is coming to Steam at the end of August News Aug 19th, 2020

EA Play is coming to Steam at the end of August

Service was formerly known as Origin Access

Take-Two still isn't sure about subscription services News Feb 7th, 2020

Take-Two still isn't sure about subscription services

CEO Zelnick says that the model is best-suited to older titles

Microsoft: Game Pass has helped reduce risk for building games News Nov 15th, 2019

Microsoft: Game Pass has helped reduce risk for building games

Head of studios Matt Booty says that the subscriptions service

EA says Access subscribers spend more money News Oct 30th, 2019

EA says Access subscribers spend more money

"That’s why it’s such a great business model"

#PCGICYMI - The biggest stories and hottest features of the week - Borderlands 3, Seag Searchlight, Maximum's Modus publishing label and much more News Oct 14th, 2019

#PCGICYMI - The biggest stories and hottest features of the week - Borderlands 3, Seag Searchlight, Maximum's Modus publishing label and much more

At the start of each week, we collect the biggest stories and the hottest features of the last seven days

Opinion: What subscription services will (and won't) mean for developers Interviews & Opinion Oct 8th, 2019

Opinion: What subscription services will (and won't) mean for developers

Auroch Digital's Dr Tomas Rawlings takes a look

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