How to disable Game Center process (gamed) on OS X 10.11 El Capitan?

Solution 1:

Disable the LaunchAgent (not LaunchDaemons) and reboot your machine (without sudo):

$ launchctl unload /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.gamed.plist

In case you want to enable it again at one point:

$ launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.gamed.plist

Solution 2:

According to this thread you can do:

defaults write com.apple.gamed Disabled -bool true

And to check the current state of the daemon use:

defaults read com.apple.gamed Disabled