Daily 10/30: AI games gain a path from creation to commerce as Eros and Fikad build production infrastructure

Xsolla acquired GamePix to connect AI-created games with browser distribution and global payments. Korean startup Fikad launched an agent that plans and produces short videos from a line of text and source materials. Eros Innovation is combining rights-controlled cultural data, digital humans, and real-time production for film, immersive entertainment, and games.

• [AFP] Xsolla Acquires GamePix to Connect AI-Created Games to Web Distribution and Payments ↗

  Xsolla acquired GamePix, a browser-games platform with more than 10,000 web titles and a community of over 4,000 developers. GamePix brings porting, publishing, QA, distribution, and monetization, including technology that converts Unity and C++ titles into browser builds. Xsolla adds commerce infrastructure across more than 200 geographies and over 1,000 payment methods. Developers who build games with AI can publish without downloads and connect discovery, player identity, and payments through one route to market.

• [K-EnterTech Hub] Fikad Launches an AI Agent That Builds Short Videos from One Line of Text and Source Materials ↗

  Korean startup Fikad launched fika.agent, which turns product photos, article links, blog posts, or even a recipe note into a short-form video. After asking about the audience and mood, the agent plans the piece, creates a storyboard, generates scenes, adds captions and music, and waits for user approval before rendering. It offers more than 60 templates and supports Korean, English, Japanese, Traditional Chinese, and Brazilian Portuguese. The free tier includes 500 credits, while Pro costs 34,900 won per month and Max costs 99,000 won.

• [MediaNews4U] Eros Innovation Builds a Rights-Controlled Production Business Around Digital Humans and Immersive Entertainment ↗

  Eros Innovation appointed Remington Scott to lead Eros Imagination, a global creative-technology business spanning film, series, games, and immersive experiences. The unit combines AI, digital-human technology, real-time rendering, performance capture, and human-led production with Eros’s studio and content operations. Its first initiative with the Mohammed Rafi family will explore an authorised digital performance, cinematic storytelling, and interactive audience engagement subject to rights and creative approvals. Eros says its Large Cultural Model and multimodal AI are trained on a corpus of approximately 1.5 trillion rights-cleared cultural tokens, with rights governance and creative control built into the workflow.