I’m sending copies to all of my competitors.
BREAKING: “Grand Theft Auto VI” could cost the US economy $1 billion in a single day.
The long-awaited game drops Nov. 19, and up to 1.5 million Americans could call in sick or take the day off to play it, according to estimates cited by the International Business Times.
This has got to be the most in touch response to what’s happening as I’ve seen.
Today we're standing up XBOX LABS (labs.xbox.com). Here is the note that I sent to the team:
Team,
The first video games emerged some 75 years ago. In the time since, there have been booms and busts, but every year there are more great games to play, more devices to play them, and best of all, more people than ever playing. That growth helped make XBOX what it is today, and we've helped shape the industry in return, from bringing hard drives to consoles and online gaming through Xbox Live to Game Pass and cloud gaming, alongside franchises that have brought millions of people together.
In recent weeks, we've seen games rapidly decompiled and rebuilt to run on hardware they were never originally designed to support. Windows PC builds have been translated to run on Apple Silicon or ported to run inside a browser through WebAssembly and WebGPU, the latter now approaching 90% global browser support. Perhaps more surprisingly, we've seen many of the biggest games in the world have been remixed into the source code of another.
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. 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. These are unmistakably good outcomes for players, even when (and sometimes because) they challenge our existing business models.
To explore these possibilities, I’ve asked Scott to stand-up XBOX LABS, a small group of game makers, engineers and scientists whose job is to turn emerging ideas into things our players and developers can experience. We'll build in the open, learn from what people do, and measure success by whether more people are playing and creating.
I think XBOX has an important role to play here. Coding became the first major workload for agents because they can write, run, and test software. Games share many of those same properties, and people spend more than 72 billion hours a year playing XBOX games, roughly five times the estimated time spent writing code worldwide. We've spent 25 years learning how to make great games, and I want our game makers to help shape what these new technologies make possible. As we learn, we’ll share the tools we build with developers across the industry, just as we always have.
Our priorities aren't changing. We remain committed to the 4Cs, to making great games, to our hardware and to being responsible stewards of IP and the communities built around it. LABS gives us a way to explore new technology that is game design led without abandoning the work already underway.
Asha
danfiru retweeted
🚨 BREAKING NEWS RECOMP SWITCH
À ma connaissance, on tient le premier vrai jeu Nintendo Switch recompilé avec une release publique prête à l’emploi
The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening (2019) tourne désormais nativement sur PC via LASRecomp.
✅ Windows
✅ Linux
✅ macOS
✅ AppImage dispo
✅ Ce n’est PAS de l’émulation
Il faut fournir son propre dump du jeu v1.0.0 + ses prod.keys
Et le projet va déjà plus loin que le jeu d’origine :
• Ultrawide
• Résolution interne réglable
• SMAA
• FSR1
• Mouvement 360°
• Suppression du blur
• Support clavier/manette
• Randomizer intégré
2026, c’est vraiment l’année où les recomp ont décidé de tout casser 🤘
github.com/peiikai/LASRecomp
danfiru retweeted
After 30 hours of playing a strategy video game (StarCraft II), adults showed a ~3-year drop in EEG-estimated brain age
Announcing Pear Fund V: $333M to back founders before it’s obvious.
Pear was founded 13 years ago on one belief: the best time to meet a founder is before the world knows they’re great.
Fund V is a continuation of that conviction, and we’re just getting started. 🍐
danfiru retweeted
BREAKING: A radioactive peptide that targets cancer cells and delivers radiation to destroy them has just succeeded in a Phase 3 trial.
The real point here is that most, if not all, of MS Office isn’t even required in the first place anymore.
Hunan centric guis input controllers in the agentic era no longer make sense.
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