All game studios I have worked at have used Maya. I do know of some that use Max but it's definitely not the case that Maya is only used outside of games. As a

All game studios I have worked at have used Maya. I do know of some that use Max but it's definitely not the case that Maya is only used outside of games. As a side note, Maya added Python as a scripting language a while back. You can also write plugins in C++, which can be a nice way to write custom exporter code sharing engine code files for file formats and such.