On Tuesday at GDC 2024, I attended Google's keynote session, "Reimagine the Future of Gaming with Google AI." Glancing at my neighbors' nametags, I saw engineers from Tencent, Epic Games, and other notable devs and publishers, all crammed into uncomfortable chairs to see Google's AI-tinted vision of how Android games can get better.
I'm used to people evangelizing doomed or premature concepts at industry events like GDC. However, this hour-long talk, given by a carousel of Google engineers and execs, sounded more like a helpful warning to the industry that AI-backed games are already happening and that they'd better get on board if they want to keep up.
