Versions of a Burial: The Atari Landfill Excavation in Museums, Part 1

Developer creates a password-cracking Game Boy Advance that is ‘about thirty million times slower than a modern cracking rig’

A security engineer has “ported” one of the best known password recovery utilities to the GameBoy Advance. The port is based on Hashcat, a password recovery utility that otherwise pitches itself as the “world’s fastest.” But I’m doing the bunny ears around ‘ported’ because even the developer admits this is “not really” Hashcat in full….

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The PS VR Sessions: Here They Lie

The PlayStation.Blog team can’t wait for October 13. With the launch of PlayStation VR in North America, we’re entering a new era of gaming — one that places players directly into the worlds that developers so lovingly create. To prepare for this amazing next chapter in PlayStation history, we all donned that PlayStation VR headset…

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Larian celebrated a ‘probably this time really maybe’ defeat of Baldur’s Gate 3’s Zoom grandpa portrait glitch too soon, with the beloved bug already rising from the dead like a slasher villain

First reported by GamesRadar, one of Baldur’s Gate 3’s most persistent bugs has once again resisted Larian’s attempts to squash it, with players on the BG3 subreddit sharing screens of their companions staring flatly into the camera in their portraits. I don’t know if it was around in early access, but I’ve seen screenshots of…

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“It’s Easier To Just Walk Away” – Developer Of PS1 Emulator DuckStation Threatens To End Linux Support

“This is why we can’t have nice things”. Stenzek, the developer behind the excellent PS1 emulator DuckStation, has threatened to pull Linux support following issues with certain sectors of the community. The developer’s discontent stems from the fact that they are constantly being asked to fix broken DuckStation Linux packages created by third parties. As…

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Legion Remix characters from ‘Quality Assurance’ guild breach containment, enter WoW proper with their godlike power intact—forcing Blizzard to quarantine Remix for the time being

World of Warcraft‘s Legion Remix has been proceeding about as expected. That is, to say, a fun little romp through a beloved expansion where Blizzard has had to nerf elite farming, because if there’s one thing a WoW player loves doing, it’s optimising a grind so hard it requires intervention. Remix is also a novel…

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