The biggest gaming deals of 2026 are really AI deals

I don’t necessarily consider myself a gamer, but I have sunk hundreds of hours of my life into Skyrim. So, it follows perhaps that I keep an eye on the state of the gaming industry—a famously tough business, driven by hits and weighed down by high development costs. It’s also a space where success in one era doesn’t promise success in another, as evidenced by the challenges facing Microsoft’s Xbox, which my colleague Sebastian Herrera has reported on . I pondered all this looking at PitchBook’s gaming VC data for Q3 2026, and it’s a mixed picture.

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