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Microsoft forms Xbox Labs to embrace AI game decompilation

A dedicated team plus a CEO memo calling decompilation 'unmistakably good' signals how platform holders will treat modding that crosses console boundaries.

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Tom WarrenLead source
Microsoft just announced Xbox Labs, a response to the AI-powered game decompiling we've seen recently. Whether it's skateboarding in CoD or Halo in a browser, Xbox Labs is a new group tasked with exploring this new era of modding. Details 👇
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Aakash Gupta
The CEO of Xbox just told her entire team that games breaking free of the Xbox are a good thing. Asha Sharma put out a memo today about games getting decompiled and rebuilt to run on hardware they were never designed for. Her words were "unmistakably good," even when it challenges Xbox's own business model. Nintendo sued the Yuzu emulator over this exact behavior in 2024, took $2.4 million and killed the project. Console makers have treated it as theft for 40 years, and the head of Xbox just blessed it in writing. Here's why that's less crazy than it sounds. Look at who Satya picked for the job. When Phil retired in February, the obvious successor was a gaming lifer. Satya went with the person running Microsoft's CoreAI division instead, someone who'd spent her career scaling platforms…
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