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Ubisoft: 17 per cent of gamers subscribe to at least one subscription service News Sep 5th, 2019

Ubisoft: 17 per cent of gamers subscribe to at least one subscription service

French firm spoke to 4,000 15-to-45-year-olds last year ahead of rolling out its own UPlay+ platform

15 per cent of American gamers predominantly play on PC News Jun 27th, 2019

15 per cent of American gamers predominantly play on PC

30 per cent of US citizens pay for gaming subscription service

Streaming won't necessarily take the entire games market to subscription models, says WBIE's Haddad News Jun 24th, 2019

Streaming won't necessarily take the entire games market to subscription models, says WBIE's Haddad

Warner president says just because this happened in music and film doesn't mean the same will be true for our industry

Take-Two's Zelnick isn't sure that games streaming will lower barrier to entry News Jun 18th, 2019

Take-Two's Zelnick isn't sure that games streaming will lower barrier to entry

Top exec thinks we could be reaching a fatigue point on subscription services, too

Take-Two's Zelnick is sceptical about video games subscription model News May 31st, 2019

Take-Two's Zelnick is sceptical about video games subscription model

Exec claims the average home spends around five hours watching TV and films, much more than they do playing games

Ubisoft leaks suggest the publisher is preparing to launch a subscription service News May 28th, 2019

Ubisoft leaks suggest the publisher is preparing to launch a subscription service

Ubisoft Pass and a subscription store page appeared on, and quickly vanished from, the Ubisoft Store

$1.2bn and almost six years later: How Microsoft supports indies with ID@Xbox and Game Pass Feature May 24th, 2019

$1.2bn and almost six years later: How Microsoft supports indies with ID@Xbox and Game Pass

US boss Chris Charla and EU head Agostino Simonetta tell us more

Discord quietly shelves its storefront to focus on direct sales News Mar 22nd, 2019

Discord quietly shelves its storefront to focus on direct sales

Developers can still sell games directly through their own servers

GDC 2019 - Oxenfree has sold 1.5m copies but boasts 3m installs News Mar 19th, 2019

GDC 2019 - Oxenfree has sold 1.5m copies but boasts 3m installs

PC still leading the pack, but the gap ahead of console is closing

The PC Revolution: Streaming and subscription services are going to change the industry forever Feature Nov 26th, 2018

The PC Revolution: Streaming and subscription services are going to change the industry forever

How, and why, cloud tech and all-you-can-eat offerings will impact the market

Xbox head Phil Spencer claims Game Pass is increasing sales for featured titles News Nov 14th, 2018

Xbox head Phil Spencer claims Game Pass is increasing sales for featured titles

Subscription-payers are providing valuable word-of-mouth marketing, leading to increased sales outside the service

Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass subscription service is coming to PC News Oct 25th, 2018

Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass subscription service is coming to PC

PC players can already access an extremely-limited range of Play Anywhere titles

Loot Crate unboxes new indie subscription service Loot Play News Oct 18th, 2018

Loot Crate unboxes new indie subscription service Loot Play

Five "high quality, highly curated" indie titles will be delivered each month to subscribers

Why getting a new Velocity game made is proving impossible for FuturLab Interviews & Opinion Aug 24th, 2018

Why getting a new Velocity game made is proving impossible for FuturLab

Managing director James Marsden takes us behind the scenes to explain the challenges the developer has experienced and how this isn't the end of the world for the studio

World of Warcraft no longer requires over a decade’s worth of expansion purchases News Jul 18th, 2018

World of Warcraft no longer requires over a decade’s worth of expansion purchases

Players can now access all content bar the latest expansion with just a subscription fee

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