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The history of WoW emulation

AI-generated image of World of Warcraft

March 11, 2026

The history of World of Warcraft emulation is a mix of technical pioneering, internet folklore, and vanished projects. In the early years, small groups of hobbyists and reverse engineers worked on the question of whether Blizzard’s MMORPG could also be made playable outside the official infrastructure.

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Legendary chat service ICQ is shutting down

ICQ Logo

May 26, 2024

ICQ was first launched in November 1996 by the Israel-based company Mirabilis, which grew out of four Israeli students who wanted to make it possible to connect with the whole world through the internet and your computer. In the beginning, ICQ let you see in real time what the other person was typing, but that feature was eventually removed. The name stood for I Seek You.

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Wanted: people who want to learn a programming language from yesteryear

COBOL Logo

May 3, 2024

COBOL is a programming language developed in 1959 that is mainly used in business environments. COBOL stands for COmmon Business Oriented Language.

Major institutions such as the Dutch Tax Administration and UWV have an urgent shortage of programmers who can work with the age-old Cobol language. Retraining programs, often with a job guarantee, are expected to offer a solution.

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Dutch studio Paladin Studios closes its doors after 19 years

Sony Playstation 5 Pro

May 2, 2024

Paladin Studios, a game development company from The Hague, has unfortunately had to shut down. The company announced this online through various channels. It made games for different platforms for nearly 19 years. Most of them were mobile titles, but in 2020 the game Good Job was released exclusively for the Switch in collaboration with Nintendo.

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PlayStation 5 Pro "Project Trinity" details and release date

Sony Playstation 5 Pro

July 23, 2023

Trinity appears to be PlayStation's final hardware for this generation, and after reporting on nearly everything from the DualSense Edge Controller to Project Q and PlayStation's new wireless earbuds, the next time you hear a PlayStation hardware report will probably be about the PlayStation 6, which is currently targeted for a 2028 release.

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Google wants a second site for data centers in Belgium

Google Datacenter

July 8, 2023

Google has submitted a building application for a new site with data centers in the Walloon municipality of Farciennes. In the long term, this site is expected to contain three data centers. The first data center should be ready by 2025 and will have an area of 7,500 square meters.

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T-Mobile will permanently shut down its 2G network on June 1

2G network will be permanently shut down

May 1, 2023

T-Mobile will permanently switch off its remaining 2G network on June 1. Although calling over 2G has not been possible for some time, many IoT devices still use 2G. According to the provider, new hardware is needed for that. Mobile phones have not had access to T-Mobile’s 2G network since June 2021, but other devices have continued to be supported until now.

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With DirectStorage 1.1, games can shift decompression from the CPU to the GPU

Image of a WD Black SSD

November 11, 2022

DirectStorage 1.1 with GPU decompression is now available on both Windows 11 and Windows 10. With the improved DirectStorage, developers can shift the workload of file decompression from a system’s CPU to a GPU. This setup is optimal because the best graphics cards handle parallel processing very well. As a result, PCs can load games significantly faster when DirectStorage 1.1 is implemented.

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 LHR graphics cards now offer 100% crypto mining speed via NiceHash QuickMiner unlock

Nvidia GeForce RTX LHR graphics cards

May 8, 2022

Since its introduction, many attempts have been made to bypass LHR. The technology was intended to stop miners from buying graphics cards made for gaming, but as we saw, that did not help much, since getting 70-80% of the mining speed through NBMiner and QuickMiner updates still allowed crypto miners to make decent profits from GeForce RTX 30 series cards.

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Sierra founders return with a graphical remake of 1976’s Colossal Cave

Sierra Online Colossal Cave 3D

March 26, 2022

Ken and Roberta Williams, the founders of pioneering game studio Sierra Online, are working on a new game for the first time in twenty years. It is a graphical remake of the groundbreaking text adventure Colossal Cave.

Colossal Cave 3D is not a reboot of an old Sierra game, which some followers had expected after the project was first announced last year. It does, however, come from roughly the same era.

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Development of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 put on hold because of the war in Ukraine

STALKER 2

March 5, 2022

GSC Game World says development of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 has been "moved to the sidelines" in a video responding to the war in Ukraine, but promised to finish the game in the future. In January, Stalker 2 had already been delayed from April to December in order to "meet players’ expectations."

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Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050 and RTX 3050 Ti desktop variants may hit shelves in Q2 2022

Future Videocard

December 1, 2021

There are rumors that the desktop version of the GeForce RTX 3050 will feature a GA106 GPU with 8 GB of VRAM and perform at the same level as the GTX 1660. Nvidia is expected to launch this card and the more advanced GeForce RTX 3050 Ti sometime in Q2.

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Early predictions for Nvidia and AMD's next-gen cards promise an epic GPU battle

Future Videocard

November 13, 2021

Rumors about the next generation of GPUs, namely Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 4090 and AMD’s Radeon RX 7900 XT, are already popping up online. Among them, well-known Twitter leaker Greymon55 is now sharing predictions about core counts, power consumption, and clock speeds, giving us plenty of hope for the future of the so-called Lovelace and RDNA 3 architectures.

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PC BIGBOX - Welltris

Welltris

€ 89,95

Welltris is a puzzle video game developed by Doca and licensed to Bullet-Proof Software. It is an official game in the Tetris series. Adaptations were made by Sphere, Inc. for Spectrum HoloByte, and by Infogrames. It was released in 1989 for MS-DOS compatible operating systems.

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PC BIGBOX - POD: Planet of Death GOLD

POD: Planet of Death GOLD

€ 79,95

POD: Gold is a re-release of Ubisoft’s futuristic racing video game. This version, released in late 1997, included 8 extra cars and 16 extra tracks, bringing the totals to 16 cars and 32 tracks respectively. This version also included several sound effect changes, most notably a completely new engine sound for the cars.

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PC BIGBOX - Need for Speed: Road Challenge

Need for Speed: Road Challenge

€ 159,95 - SEALED

Like its predecessors, Need for Speed: Road Challenge is an action racing game with a wide selection of exotic sports cars and many different types of tracks. The hallmark Hot Pursuit mode from the first game in the series is still present, where players race against opponents on tracks filled with regular traffic and police cars chasing the racers. The classic pursuit mode has been expanded with two extra modes: Getaway and Time Trap. In Getaway, the player must shake off the police within a set amount of time, or play as the police and trap a speeder before time runs out. In Time Trap, an entire race must be completed before time runs out, or, as the police, all speeders must be arrested. Pursuit mode is also available in multiplayer, and players can choose different sides or race together.

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PC KEEPCASE - EverQuest: Prophecy of Ro

EverQuest: Prophecy of Ro

€ 49,95 - SEALED

EverQuest may well be the most influential MMORPG of all time, and it extends its lifespan once again with this powerful expansion pack — the eleventh add-on released since the game’s original launch in 1998. The Prophecy of Ro adds a number of practical new features as well as new missions, story elements, and lore from the game world.

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MGE PrimoTek Viper ATX Case

MGE PrimoTek Viper ATX Case

€ 159,95

Nice, but cheaply built "LAN Gaming" ATX case from 2004. Everyone will have a different opinion about the looks. What really matters is whether you need a case like this and how much you would be willing to spend on it. Most people want a carefully designed case; a case that fits the needs of a retro gamer....

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PC SMALLBOX - Original World of Warcraft

PC SMALLBOX - Original World of Warcraft

€ 59,95

Original World of Warcraft from February 11, 2005 (release day in the Netherlands), including 4 CDs, game manual, and product catalog.

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Game Boy: Pokémon Yellow Version: Special Pikachu Edition

Pokémon Yellow Version: Special Pikachu Edition

€ 229,95

After the huge success of Pokémon Red Version and Pokémon Blue Version, players return to Kanto once again in Pokémon Yellow Version: Special Pikachu Edition. In Pokémon Yellow, Pikachu stays by your side throughout your entire journey!

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PC BIGBOX - Rise Of The Robots

PC BIGBOX - Rise Of The Robots

€ 79,95

Rise of the Robots is a fighting game released by Time Warner Interactive in 1994. Originally developed for the Amiga and DOS by Mirage's Instinct Design, it was ported to various video game consoles, including the Super NES, the Mega Drive, and the 3DO Interactive Multiplayer. The game includes a single-player mode in which the player assumes the role of the ECO35-2 Cyborg, as he attempts to stop the Supervisor who takes over Electrocorp's facilities in Metropolis 4.

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PC BIGBOX - Starcraft II: Heart of the Swarm - Collector's Edition

PC BIGBOX Starcraft II: Heart of the Swarm

€ 249,95 - SEALED

Starcraft II: Heart of the Swarm is the second part of the Starcraft II trilogy. This strategy game focuses entirely on the Zerg and their leader Kerrigan. In the role of the mutated Kerrigan, you have only one goal: conquering and destroying the universe. In doing so, the Zerg face resistance from the Protoss and the Terran!

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PC BIGBOX - Homeworld

PC BIGBOX Homeworld

€ 149,95

Homeworld is a 3D real-time strategy (RTS) computer game developed by Relic Entertainment and published by Sierra Entertainment on September 28, 1999. It was the first fully three-dimensional RTS. In 2003, Relic released the source code for Homeworld, allowing third parties to port it to other platforms such as Linux and Pandora.

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PC BIGBOX - Dungeon Keeper

PC BIGBOX Dungeon Keeper

€ 99,95

Dungeon Keeper is a strategy video game developed by Bullfrog Productions and released by Electronic Arts in June 1997 for MS-DOS and Windows 95. In Dungeon Keeper, the player builds and manages a dungeon and protects it from invading "hero" characters intent on stealing accumulated treasures, killing monsters, and ultimately bringing about the player’s downfall. The ultimate goal is to conquer the world by destroying the heroic forces and rival dungeon keepers in each realm. A character known as the Avatar (resembling the Avatar from Ultima VIII: Pagan) appears as the final hero. Dungeon Keeper uses Creative Technology’s SoundFont technology to enhance the atmosphere. Multiplayer for up to four players is supported using a modem or over a local network.

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