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Mario in Elden Ring? AI is Starting to Mash Up Games

An Hyemin

Published : Oct 16, 2026 5:02 PM

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Mario running around in the world of Elden Ring, running console- and PC-exclusive titles like Halo and GTA: Vice City in a web browser, and playing Windows games on Apple Silicon or iPhones. Recently, experiments aimed at re-running games originally made for different environments or mashing up entirely different titles have been rapidly increasing in the gaming community. What has accelerated this trend is AI. In the past, analyzing a game's structure and execution code and adapting it to a new environment required considerable expertise and time, but recent AI models can iteratively assist with everything from code analysis and conversion to execution and debugging. The graph highlighted by O-Graph today is the recent impact of vibe coding on the gaming industry.

(Reported by An Hyemin | Filmed by Hwang Se-hoe and Cha Seung-hwan | Edited by Lee Ki-eun | Designed by Ahn Jun-seok and intern Shin Yeon-seong | Produced by Knowledge Contents IP Team)