Developers · Updated 14 Oct, 12:30 am IST
Microsoft launches Xbox Labs to explore AI-powered game mods
Why it matters for readers: It explains why people are suddenly running old games in new ways and that Microsoft plans to investigate those creative developments.
- Xbox Labs will be a small team of game makers, engineers and scientists focused on turning emerging ideas into player and developer experiences.1
- Microsoft says it will 'build in the open', learn from community work, and measure success by whether more people are playing and creating.1
- The initiative responds to recent AI-enabled decompilations, recompilations and ports that have let classic games run on new hardware or in browsers.1
- Xbox CEO Asha Sharma framed the experiments as challenging assumptions about the ties between software and hardware and the boundary between creation and play.1
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