The Corpse of 3D Vision Just Coughed
wiz3D is dragging abandoned PC stereoscopic 3D tech out of the grave, and annoyingly, it kind of rules.
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One Guy, Pure Assembly, 1999 Hardware — And He Still Embarrasses Every City Builder Made Today
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.
The 'Unhackable' Xbox One Finally Got Hacked — Thirteen Years Later
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.
Your Anti-Cheat Is a Rootkit (And It Loads Before Your OS)
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.
WoWee: Someone Actually Reverse-Engineered World of Warcraft's Client (And It Runs)
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.