Today, we look at where investors are seeing the biggest opportunities in the new wave of AI advancements in gaming. Our latest podcast is about VCs and gaming entrepreneurs too, plus we compare two NBA games in our Game(s) of the Week analysis.
There’s no shortage of conversation around how new technologies are changing the way games are made, but that technological change doesn’t end there. New platforms are also contending for player attention, and where and how games are distributed is all destined to evolve, likely in bigger ways than most people think. We all know about…
Together with Dive, one of our Open Gaming Research Initiative partners, we’re exploring the topic of data and games through a limited podcast series called “Data Corner.” This episode is the final segment of this mini-series, so we decided to focus it on a fascinating future-facing topic — AI Analytics. According to Gartner’s Analytics Ascendancy Model, there are four…
AI is all the rage right now, but unless you’re in the thick of it, it can be hard to make perfect sense of what’s possible today and where we’re headed. Will AI be a sustaining or disruptive innovation for the gaming industry? Why is the “open source vs. closed source” conversation so important? How…
In this issue, we’re reviewing Unity’s generative AI ambitions and discussing how the company’s early embrace of the technology could be an advantage.
By Moritz Baier-Lentz & Kishen Patel / Lightspeed Gaming This deep dive was written by our partners at Lightspeed Venture Partners and originally published here. To date, Lightspeed has invested over $350 million into the gaming industry — including with many founders who have led the creation of games like Fortnite, Call of Duty, League…
In this issue, we have a more earnings coverage, including a roundup of Microsoft, Stillfront, and Ubisoft’s most recent quarterly results and top takeaways about the state of the games market.
In today’s issue, we’re discussing Valve’s restrictive approach to generative AI in game development and how it might affect the new technology’s adoption.
We take a look at the state of generative AI in games since the launch of ChatGPT and how it might reshape game development as we know it.
NPCs in games are notoriously goofy. They walk into walls, they repeat themselves over and over again and they run out of cover in the middle of a gunfight. At their best, they kind of just blend into the surroundings and the player barely notices they are there. At their worst, they actually ruin the gameplay experience. But what if we could use the latest developments in artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies to give NPCs more intelligence and real personalities? Could NPCs and how they behave become a core part of the game, even a reason to play and replay a game?
Kylan Gibbs, co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Inworld.ai is trying to do just that, and joins your host, Niko Vuori, to discuss how, and why now.
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