Xbox launches Xbox Labs to prototype AI ports and web builds
Xbox Labs announced 'a small group of game makers, engineers and scientists whose job is to turn emerging ideas into things our players and developers can experience' labs.xbox.com news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/1...
Chsnos 68Lemme guess this is just a fancy name for games made via vibe coding?
Max Metalmorph45"Coding became the first workload for agents-" lmao dead giveaway about them just trying to vibecode without any backlash.
Spinner 816and then get laid off
Bum Farto aka bean boy13They’ll be laid off in a year
Mark8This is a whole lotta words that sound like AI
gamebusiness.bsky.social3"we've seen you playing Nintendo games on pc, but I gotta ask,why not Xbox games? Just like, try it once please bro"
Aura/Moom67microsoft winds up Slop Labs
lex luddy needs a nap49"and we’ve helped shape the industry in return"
NotNite47man oh man I'm so glad my dear hobby of game modding and reverse engineering has been sloppified so hard that nothing means anything anymore and everything is just grifts now
🎃 Sp00py Fran J. Ruiz 👻17Damn, they invented game dev.
Mike Futter | Wishlist The Final Cut of Lilith Cunningham!13So, using decompiling as an example here... did Microsoft just endorse piracy of their own products? Because this sure reads like Microsoft just gave everyone carte blanche to pirate their games. That also means Microsoft is endorsing pirating YOUR games, developers...
Ashley Esqueda10Someone asked a chatbot to copy our homework and came up with whatever this is lmao
Ami - BUY MY BOOK 🏳️⚧️📚💙8ever seen a industry have a panic attack over decomp slop
Joy Content 🏳️⚧️🐒6"we saw ai recomps and went wow what a business opportunity"
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 👇 www.theverge.com/news/1010406...
MrMario20117Wow, this is the first thing I've seen from XBOX in a while that truly surprised me. Looks like someone asked "How can we engage this community?" again. If you know, you know 🙂
William Davis7I've never considered just deleting my Xbox account before.
Cactrot2I should not have been holding that monkey's paw when I said I wanted to see more game mods.
oh see i was thinking "sue the people making this possible into nonexistence" as a solution to this problem but i guess you can just do whatever the fuck this word salad is too, sure news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/1...
Giovanni Colantonio8i guess the good news is that whatever this ends up being will make the idea of decomp slop so corporatized and unappealing that maybe it will inadvertently reverse the growing perception of it, like when meta unveiled its metaverse vision
Rollin Bishop2the people yearn for hubs
Jake Haas1I guess this is like seeing the demand for emulation and making older games available except they’re just pressing the same “make me a video game” button that 10,000 people on reddit are also pressing
Evan Campbell1I would say this sucks and it does but given their track record for actually finishing games and the state of the types of things being developed by that technology now... it's probably gonna be a while before they come up with something they can put on the market if anything at all ever.
Asha Sharma announces Xbox Labs, a new internal R&D team that will "build in the open", spurred by recent user mashups and ports created using AI tools: www.gamesindustry.biz/xbox-announc...
Harrison G. Pink42Microsoft have any kind of vision or cohesive business plan challenge (Impossible)
Jason32I love this trend of companies firing thousands of people and then being like "we made a new team for the future"
Max Nichols24My worry about the AI decompilation stuff is that it might drive the entire industry and all funding sources even further away from selling boxed experiences. More GAAS, more gacha, more MTX, more DRM, more multiplayer, more high latency game-streaming. Fewer stories with endings, less ownership
Dia Lacina19Was this logo made by the AI whose passion was graphic design and then it ripped its head off like the failed prototype from Robocop 2?
Erik Robson13"I'd do anything for a new Crimson Skies game." <monkey paw's finger curls>
Alex11Blinx the Time Sweeper coming to PC as a vibe coded decompilation. 60 dollars and bricks your machine
Option Selecting into October10thanks to all the losers who keep making AI decomps, this is what it led to
BOO!👻 LAO GATE!8my company did the same thing with a "LABS" offshoot and all it does is skirt labor laws and replace people with AI and their work sucks
Dennis Detwiller7“We’re failing, yes. But in what ways are we NOT failing? Let’s fail in those too.”
aaron6lmao they saw all the recomps and wanted in. missing the point of the audience for these things being that whatever windows exe claude spits out is downloadable for free
Xbox launches something that sounds awfully like a division that will (at the very least) be tinkering with generative AI. Sharma says Labs was founded to explore the "possibilities" presented by "experiments" that have resulted in video games being decompiled, rebuilt, and remixed.
Philip Tibitoski7I am also doing an experiment called “making a video game normal style”.
Chris Kerr6Note: Xbox does not mention AI of any kind in this post. It also doesn't really specify what Labs will be doing, beyond vague aspirations of "making great games easier to access, giving old games new life and allowing more players to become creators and co-creators."
SpacePrez3What the fuck is the point of decompilation when you already have the source code.... ????
Microsoft has formed ‘Xbox Labs’ in response to the recent explosion of AI-powered mods and ports. “These experiments challenge long-held assumptions about our industry: the tether between software and hardware, the boundary between creation and play". vgc.news/news/asha-sh...
Lee Jackson3Yes, there's a rise in these mods and ports...doesn't mean people want this shit.
Psy White 🎀3Recorded tomorrow's podcast this morning where I mentioned this trend and how popular it was and how worried I was that companies were going to lean into it and it came TRUE before the pod was even OUT.
Parallax Abstraction2Remember when Asha Sharma publicly posted "no soulless AI slop" after taking over Xbox? I membah'.
