… "An availability of power, availability of completed data centres, and availability of water in the areas that they're building them will start to become more of a bottleneck than hardware availability." He concludes: "It just takes a decommit from a couple of the big AI projects and suddenly the p…
… The 2026 State of the Game Industry Report found that 6% of studio employees work at dedicated co-dev companies, while other teams participate in co-dev alongside their main projects. …
… The new appointments are as follows: Jared Palmer former CoreAI VP of product – VP of Xbox engineering Tim Allen former CoreAI president of design – CVP of Xbox Design Jonathan McKay former CoreAI head of growth – Xbox head of growth Evan Chaki former CoreAI general manager of AI innovation – Xbox … …
… The new games chief has said she has "no tolerance for bad AI" , later adding that Xbox is facing "no pressure" to use the technology . …
… "But we're seeing the long tail, as well as the sort of torso of the industry start to realize that with AI, they can punch way above their weight, way above their weight, and they can actually compete with some of these larger budget games by leveraging AI." One example Buser gives is Series Enter… …
… Although the sums invested are nowhere near those of AAA, they're hardly negligible either, meaning there's more pressure for games to make a return. Meanwhile, the mega profits of a successful live-service behemoth remain out of reach. …
… But with AI, you don't need to be wed to an engine – just make your own! Since the web is the most openly available training set available, AI is best positioned to make web games. I'm most excited about this. I hope AI-based gamedev brings a revolution in web games. …