Living games are the future, according to Google Cloud.
Living games are the future, according to Google Cloud.
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Google Cloud expects live services to evolve into AI-based living games | Jack Buser

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Live services have helped games continue to generate revenue for a long time. But Jack Buser, director of game industry solutions at Google Cloud, believes that AI advances will lead us to something better: Living games.

Living games expand the live service model to include the game itself as an active participant, Buser said in an interview with GamesBeat just ahead of the Game Developers Conference next week. It’s as big a change as when the CD-ROM arrived decades ago and enabled games with rich graphics like Myst and The Seventh Guest, Buser said.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.