Agenda

Game development has always run on AI (think NPCs, pathfinding, behaviour trees, procedural generation, etc.) and in fact AI and video games are as old as each other (it all started with video checkers and chess). The 2026 generation of AI tools deserves the same clear-eyed industry treatment every technology before it received, rather than a moral panic or a sales pitch. Experienced games lawyers, who advise studios and publishers from the inside and as external counsel, walk through the questions that actually drive risk: who owns what comes out of the tool, what the vendor's terms really say about your inputs and outputs, when training data provenance matters and when it doesn't, what storefronts and platforms require you to disclose, how publisher agreements and contractor templates should handle AI-assisted work, and where talent, likeness, and voice rights fit. And most of all, how to make sense of AI in the current gaming environment. Using real-world examples, they show how to make the right decisions about AI usage: with no judgment, but with no sugarcoating.