Microsoft launches Xbox Labs to embrace AI-powered game decompiling and modding
tomwarren · x · 2026-10-14
Responding to the wave of AI-assisted game decomps and ports—skateboarding modded into Call of Duty, Halo running in a browser, Windows builds translated to Apple Silicon—Microsoft has formed Xbox Labs.
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma describes it as a small group of game makers, engineers and scientists tasked with turning emerging ideas into experiences for players and developers, building in the open and measuring success by whether more people play and create.
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