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AI tools have flooded the decomp scene with fast ports and slow damage. Here's how to pick projects worth your time and avoid the ones that hurt preservation.
RetroPreserving the Arcade: Inside the Cabinet Collecting Scene
Original cabinets are heavy, fragile and increasingly scarce. The collectors keeping them alive run on salvage, patience and a parts market built on cannibalised machines.
CultureWhy Cozy Games Took Over the Conversation, and Kept It
Low pressure, high warmth: the design choices and community habits that turned a soft genre into gaming's loudest story.
HardwarePC Cooling, Air vs Liquid: When Water Actually Earns Its Price
Liquid cooling looks premium and costs more. For most gaming rigs, a good air cooler does the same job with less to go wrong.