Microsoft announces Xbox Labs to explore a new era of modding

The Verge reports Microsoft announced Xbox Labs, a group tasked with exploring a new era of modding. It describes the group as a response to recent AI-powered game decompiling, pointing to skateboarding in Call of Duty and Halo in a browser. GamesIndustry.biz reports, citing an Xbox spokesperson, that the group has no explicit AI mandate and formalizes existing R&D work without adding staff.