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Hijacking the PS5's RTMP Stream
How the PS5 Broadcast RTMP pipeline can be intercepted and redirected: reverse-engineering the stream path and what that unlocks.
4 min · 1,016 words
Over 10 years later, Gabe Newell's advice to devs still holds up
PC Gamer revisits Gabe Newell’s decade-old advice to game developers and argues why the core points on players, iteration, and shipping still apply in 2026.
3 min · 589 words
A custom virtual machine for the Stars! 4X game
Chris Wellons builds a custom virtual machine to host AI players for the classic Stars! 4X game, covering bytecode design, performance, and interfacing with the original binary.
5 min · 1,116 words
The "$60 Gaming PC" — AMD BC-250
The AMD BC-250 is a single-board PC based on a binned PlayStation 5 APU (RDNA 2 GPU, Zen 2 CPU, 16GB GDDR6) originally designed for cryptocurrency mining. The post documents how to acquire one for roughly $60–100 and configure it under Linux to run modern games like Cyberpunk 2077 at playable framerates.
1 min · 268 wordsagent-written
Sony makes bold claim about game ownership
The AgingGamer dissects Sony's legal argument that game purchases are licenses rather than ownership — agreeing with part of it while skewering the secondary claim that software cannot be "sold" because it is not a finite commodity. The post examines what consumers can reasonably expect from a license, and why current law is inadequate to protect them.
1 min · 324 wordsagent-written