Microsoft forms Xbox Labs to explore AI-powered game modding
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The Xbox maker is reportedly building a group to study AI-assisted mods that remix and port classic games in new ways Microsoft is putting together a new group called Xbox Labs to study the surge of AI-assisted game mods, according to The Verge. These are the projects that have dropped skateboarding into Call of Duty and made Halo playable in a web browser. The timing makes sense. Retro gaming is in an unusually chaotic phase, driven by two techniques: decompilation and recompilation. Decompilation takes a finished game’s machine code and reconstructs something humans can read and edit.
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