Highlights

April Highlights

A very hectic month. Switch 2 is pre-ordered, I've been ill for much of April, but a secret project I'm working on is nearly ready. More on that in June.

There's been a lot of great videos and articles published this month, which is why I've slightly gone over the usual amount for each section below. Enjoy.

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So at the start of Half-Life: Blue Shift there's this really cool train crash. I had a discussion about this in a gamedev server where we were trying to determine how this was done. There's nothing in the game files to suggest it was an animated model, so I decompiled the map to check it out and...
— Kim (@iibo.games) 2025-04-08T10:56:00.024Z

Modding a Nintendo 3DS is precise, but doable in 2025

I went through the act if installing custom firmware on my New Nintendo 2DS tonight, and I wanted to shout out this guide for being absolutely spectacular. Not only does it have the best step-by-step instructions I think I’ve ever seen, it even has branches off the main guide for