A Patent Filed by Microsoft Would Let Games Use AI to Rewrite Themselves
Tech A Patent Filed by Microsoft Would Let Games Use AI to Rewrite Themselves The new technology would consider how players explore the game and then rewrite the game to fit these interests. Joe Hindy Joe is a freelance journalist.… Read full bio Joe Hindy Read full bio September 23, 2026, 7:55 pm ET 3 min read Microsoft could use the new tech in upcoming Xbox games. Xbox Most narratively driven computer games don’t change much once they’re released to the public.
- ▪Tech A Patent Filed by Microsoft Would Let Games Use AI to Rewrite Themselves The new technology would consider how players explore the game and then rewrite the game to fit these interests.
- ▪Joe Hindy Joe is a freelance journalist.… Read full bio Joe Hindy Read full bio September 23, 2026, 7:55 pm ET 3 min read Microsoft could use the new tech in upcoming Xbox games.
- ▪Xbox Most narratively driven computer games don’t change much once they’re released to the public.
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| Original publisher | CNET — News |
| Canonical URL | https://www.cnet.com/tech/new-microsoft-patent-rewrites-games-with-ai/ |
| Publication time | 2026-09-23T23:55:50Z |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-24T00:05:11.107Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-24T00:05:11.107Z |
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| Cluster | siu__8EoU1Bo · 2 stories |
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| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
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| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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Tech A Patent Filed by Microsoft Would Let Games Use AI to Rewrite Themselves The new technology would consider how players explore the game and then rewrite the game to fit these interests. Joe Hindy Joe is a freelance journalist.… Read full bio Joe Hindy Read full bio September 23, 2026, 7:55 pm ET 3 min read Microsoft could use the new tech in upcoming Xbox games. Xbox Most narratively driven computer games don’t change much once they’re released to the public. But what if AI could change a game based on how a player interacts with it? A patent filed by Microsoft in June might allow future Xbox games to do just that. The patent outlines a system that would allow generative AI to intelligently change the game based on what players do.
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