Xbox创建新团队以应对将游戏植入《使命召唤》的mod浪潮

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Following a wave of projects that have seen developers use AI to rebuild and combine games in unusual ways, Xbox has created a new team to explore the technology.

A new trend has emerged where modders find ways to combine completely different games and make older titles run on platforms they were never designed for.

Rather than simply adding new maps or characters, these projects involve rebuilding or modifying the code of existing games. The results have ranged from classic PC titles running directly in web browsers to entirely different games being brought together.

Call of Duty, in particular, has been focused on as fans managed to bring Minecraft and Skate 2 into Modern Warfare 2. They also managed to use AI to add Fortnite and Wii Sports to the original Zombies.

While these projects have largely been driven by independent creators, Microsoft has announced a new Xbox team specifically tasked with exploring the technology and ideas behind this growing trend.

Xbox announces new team following recomp trend

In a message to employees, Xbox boss Asha Sharma highlighted the recent wave of projects involving games being rebuilt, ported, and combined, arguing that they could change how people play and create games.

“These experiments challenge long-held assumptions about our industry: the tether between software and hardware, the boundary between creation and play, and how people discover and experience games,” she wrote.

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To investigate these possibilities, Xbox is creating Xbox Labs, a small team of game developers, engineers, and scientists tasked with turning these ideas into experiences that players can try.

“While it is hard to predict the future of gaming, it is easy to see the possibilities in making great games easier to access, giving old games new life and allowing more players to become creators and co-creators,” Sharma added. “These are unmistakably good outcomes for players, even when (and sometimes because) they challenge our existing business models.”

Xbox says the team will work openly and share the tools it develops with creators across the industry, while the company’s commitments to existing games and hardware remain unchanged.