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Modern Blu-ray drives can now rip GameCube, Wii, and Xbox 360 games to PC via third-party firmware
By Aaron Klotz published
Specialized firmware enables certain Blu-ray players to read the formatting of retro console games.

Star Citizen reaches $1 billion in lifetime funding, 14 years after the project was first announced
By Hassam Nasir published
Almost half a decade in the oven.

Steam Machine appears in Vulkan’s conformant product database
By Jowi Morales published
Hope is in the air.

007: First Light drops last-minute Denuvo DRM bombshell, leaving pre-order customers and fans furious
By Hassam Nasir published
Every single version of Denuvo has already been cracked.

Steam Controller puck charger nearly catches fire after contact with Pixel Watch 3
By Aaron Klotz published
A Steam Controller charging puck nearly causes a fire after the wristband on a Pixel Watch 3 magnetically attaches to the charger, causing the exposed pogo pins to arc electricity.

Retro enthusiast injects Snake game into vintage S3 graphics card VBIOS
By Mark Tyson published
A retro PC enthusiast has modified the VBIOS of a vintage graphics card to embed a version of Snake – the game everyone used to play on their dumb phones.

Fans secretly mapped 24 terabytes of Minecraft’s infamous 2b2t server, million‑square‑block archive to be shared via torrent
By Mark Tyson published
A digital gaming archaeology project has archived 24TB of data, preserving a million squared block of Minecraft’s infamous 2b2t server.

Enthusiast crams reversed-engineered PS2 into a handheld, designs custom motherboard
By Hassam Nasir published
The entire project is open-source and available on GitHub.
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