Hey everyone, Years ago I was doing contract work for a company in finance. They wanted to understand what the future of their industry looked like so they could adapt strategy and not fall behind. Back then we were manually digging through competitor activity, startups, research, and patents. Out of all of it, patents were painful as hell. I tried automating the research part but I don't have a technical background, so that ended as a spectacular fiasco. Fast forward to now, with AI-assisted coding being what it is, I thought I'd revisit the idea and see what's actually possible. Just to give you an idea of scale: USPTO publishes 3,000+ granted patents every Tuesday and 5,000+ filed patents every Thursday. I've been building a classifier using keywords, studio names, game names, and technology to capture and analyze gaming patents. It gets optimized weekly and still throws up a fair share of false positives and complete duds. Reality check before anything else: filing a patent doesn't mean you're building a product. Getting one granted doesn't mean you'll use it. A lot of these are defensive moves or long-shot R&D ideas that'll never leave the lab. Everything I publish is based on interpretation. I'm making assumptions, and plenty of these patents might not even be used for gaming at all. That said, I read every single analysis and manually pick which ones deserve deeper work based on what looks legitimately innovative. This is exploratory, not predictive. I'm interested in possibilities, not guarantees. Currently, I'm publishing twice-weekly analyses, monthly reports, and quarterly deep-dives. All publicly accessible. Over the long term I'm planning to make the full database available (still trying to figure out what's the best model), but for the time being I'd would love to hear everyone's thoughts on the existing research.

Future of Gaming

See What Major Studios Are Building Years Before Launch

See What Major Studios Are Building Years Before Launch