Xbox is officially embracing the chaos of AI-powered game ports
Retro gaming is going through a wild time at the moment, thanks to decompilations and recompilations that are letting gamers port classic titles to new devices, or merge code from two different games into a single new experience. Microsoft has witnessed skateboarding being modded into Call of Duty and Halo being played in a web browser, and the company is now officially embracing the chaos of this new AI-powered era of game modding. Microsoft is putting together a new Xbox Labs
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Microsoft has created a new Xbox Labs group to experiment with decompiling and recompiling games, a process where modders are taking existing games and rebuilding them to run on different hardware or inside web browsers. This matters because modders are increasingly using AI to remix games in novel ways, such as porting Windows PC games to run on different devices or merging code from different games together. The context is that while Microsoft has long run a backward compatibility program to let old games run on modern hardware, independent modders are now doing similar work without business model restrictions, and the company sees potential in exploring how AI might shape where and how games are played.
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