How can I turn off the gamed service or more generally, any service? Yeah, bought a Macbook Retina, come from a Linux background where this stuff is usually a question of removing via the package manager. 

Anyhow, I don't play games on this, it's purely for business/development. But I keep seeing this gamed process that came down with the Mavericks update trying to phone home. 

Apart from software update, I don't really want any process phoning home, especially when I paid 2G for the damned thing. 

Anyhow, anyone know how I can disable/uninstall/kill this process for good?
Specifically for the gamed service, the following command in one of the posts about a similar topic on the Apple Support Communities worked for me, without any need to modify plists or rename files:

sudo defaults write /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.gamed disabled -bool true


Changing "true" back to "false" will re-enable it, although I've not tried it.