But what will everyone be talking about?
Here are five topics that will surely be unavoidable…
1.
Publishers claim that wildly increasing costs and expanding development times in AAA games could be eased through AI generation.
But is Gen AI ethical considering the huge amounts of ambiguously sourced copyrighted material it uses to generate content?
And what about industry jobs?
But is the rot setting in?
Somethings gotta give?
The funding gap
For many in the games industry, its a desperate time.
Where is the money going to come from for the next generation of innovative game makers?
Do people still want vast explorable kingdoms and 100-hour narratives?
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