4 transmissions tagged #gaming
RollerCoaster Tycoon turned 27 yesterday. One person wrote it in x86 assembly and it still runs circles around modern games on a fraction of the resources.
Microsoft's 2013 console survived a decade of attempts before 'Bliss' dropped it with voltage glitching. The story of why it lasted so long is more interesting than the hack itself.
Vanguard boots before Windows does. BattlEye hooks syscalls. A 2024 academic paper confirmed what everyone suspected: kernel anti-cheats are rootkits, just ones you agreed to install.
Kelsi Davis built WoWee — a native C++ World of Warcraft client with a custom OpenGL renderer, full SRP6a auth, and Warden emulation via CPU emulation. It actually works.