Gaming, ranked by heat
2 topics in Gaming, ranked by composite heat score. Each one shows the evidence, the real problem behind the buzz, and a content angle.Gaming — ranked by heat
Abandoned Quake 4 expansion finished by modders and now playable (openQ4 0.14.1)
HN #3, 69 pts/24 cmt (2026-11-13); openQ4 0.14.1 on ModDB - modders finished the cancelled Quake 4: Awakening expansion; alpha build leaked Aug 2026 after dev Justin Marshall found it on a secondhand PC hard drive (CBR/Gizmodo/TweakTown 2026-08-10); ~95% complete per ex-Ritual dev Michael Russell;Why it matters: A nearly finished game was cancelled and buried for 20 years; fans, not the publisher, are the ones finishing and preserving it.Angle: The wild discovery story (divorce, secondhand PC, lost hard drive) + what the finished expansion actually adds; play the first missions on screen
Short video · for Gamers, retro gaming fans · Hacker News, ModDB · spotted 2026-11-13 00:07Nintendo takes down Switch emulators and modchip firmware in massive GitHub DMCA sweep
HN #13, 90 pts/50 cmt (2026-11-13); four DMCA notices dated Nov 6: Yuzu + Citron Neo emulators and Picofly/SX Core/HWFLY modchip firmware; GitHub removed 144 firmware repos + ~72 Citron Neo repos (~217 total); TorrentFreak: first time Nintendo targeted modchip firmware;Why it matters: Nintendo keeps escalating its war on emulation and modding; players who bought Switch hardware cannot run homebrew or preserve games they own.Angle: The scale of the sweep (~217 repos) and why modchip firmware is the new front line; what survives and where emulation goes next
Short video · for Gamers, emulation fans, general public · Hacker News, IGN, XDA Developers, Video Games Chronicle, TorrentFreak · spotted 2026-11-13 02:07