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title: "Xbox is officially embracing the chaos of AI-powered game ports"
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description: "Microsoft is launching Xbox Labs, a new group dedicated to exploring AI-powered game modding and ports. This initiative aims to manage the growing trend of retro gaming decompilations and remixes, such as mods integrating skateboarding into Call of Duty or playing Halo in browsers, by officially embracing this chaotic but innovative era of community-driven game modification."
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# 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 group to explore the rapid emergence of these mods, many of which use AI models to help modders remix games in ways we've rarely seen before. Xbox Labs will be a "sm …

Read the full story at The Verge.

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