Asha Sharma announces Xbox Labs project to "explore new technology," which sure sounds like tinkering with old games through AI
Asha Sharma announced the creation of Xbox Labs, a new R&D initiative focused on exploring emerging technologies like AI for game remixing and rejigging. While Microsoft clarified AI usage won't be mandatory, the initiative aims to turn new ideas into player experiences, potentially by decompiling and rebuilding old games or making new ones more moddable. The article expresses skepticism about the initiative's true goals, linking it to recent layoffs and a focus on existing franchises.
- Entities
- Game: Banjo-Kazooie
- Company: Microsoft
- Company: Playground Games
- Game: Halo
- Topic: Artificial Intelligence
- Game: Gears of War
- Company: Obsidian Entertainment
- Company: Epic Games
- Game: Elden Ring
- Topic: Source Code Decompilation
- Company: Turn 10 Studios
- Company: Xbox
- Person: Scott Van Vliet
- Topic: Research and Development
- Topic: Game Preservation
- Game: Forza Horizon series
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