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Asha Sharma announces Xbox Labs project to "explore new technology," which sure sounds like tinkering with old games through AI

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Source: Rock Paper Shotgun
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Photo credit : A screenshot of Microsoft's Xbox Labs homepage, showing a heavy pixellated image of Gears of War protagonist Marucs Fenix.

As part of Microsoft's ongoing, physics-ignoring push to do more business with thousands fewer staff, games chief Asha Sharma has announced Xbox Labs: a new umbrella for Xbox's R&D into the kind of game remixing and rejigging most visibly characterised by viralities like Halo for browsers, or Mario in Elden Ring. Both enabled, perhaps tellingly, by the AI-driven decompilation of the original source codes.

This might not be entirely what Xbox Labs is all about, and Microsoft have clarified to our smarter-dressed cousins at GI.biz that AI usage won't be mandatory (as it's reportedly becoming for Epic Games development). Still, the lack of specific action plans in Sharma's introductory statement leave some between-the-line reading to do.

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