In recent months, the rate of games being redeveloped using artificial intelligence technologies by amateurs and independent developers has increased, so the Xbox platform decided to adopt them by opening a new program within it called "Labs".
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The announcement of the new program came from the sector's CEO, Asha Sharma, who took over in recent months from Phil Spencer. The "Xbox Labs" program aims to embrace the wave of AI-developed games and work with their developers.
The announcement of the new program coincides with the emergence of more details about the next generation of the platform, which comes under the name "Project Helix," as the company intends to make it a collection of different devices rather than a single device.
This also comes against the backdrop of Microsoft's gaming subsidiaries , such as Activision, pursuing AI game developers who remastered Modern Wear Fire 2 using artificial intelligence.
Over the past few months, independent developers have been working to convert some games that were exclusive to Windows devices to run on Mac and Linux computers, and they have also worked to break the exclusivity of some games that were available only to PlayStation and Nintendo platforms.
This is very different from the process of developing emulators that make the game appear to work through the platform, as this project relies on redeveloping the game and adapting it to work on different devices.
What does the new program offer?
In announcing the new program, Sharma explained that predicting the future is difficult, but she aims to bring scientists, gamers, developers, and companies together at one table to give Xbox users new and innovative experiences.
She added: "Giving old games a new life is undoubtedly beneficial for players, even if it sometimes challenges our business," in a clear reference to the fact that some projects go against the company's business policies.
Although Sharma’s message announcing the new program was lengthy, it did not address the details of what it would work on or even the projects it would seek to present and integrate, as it merely referred to the infinite possibilities of such projects.
The Verge report indicates that independent developers are now doing for free work that Microsoft used to spend millions on, as the company previously worked on reprogramming its older games to work on new generations under a feature called "Xbox Backward Compatibility".
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