Blizzard's Massive Comeback & Wild Retro Tech!

BlizzCon is back, PS3 emulation got physical, and a UK tinkerer built a working 8-bit computer from 460 Soviet-era vacuum tubes. In Episode 10, Stacy and Dan cover everything Blizzard announced (WoW: Forever, Diablo 5, an open-world StarCraft shooter and more), RPCS3 playing PS3 games straight off the disc, a rapid-fire round of retro wins, Guess the Price with rare original Xbox special editions, and Show and Tell. Plus: we're having a tech garage sale!HAPPY TECH GARAGE SALESaturday, [DATE] at our studio (the former Mike's General Store location), Winnipeg. Cables, keyboards (so many keyboards), routers, cases, monitors and more, all cheap.CHAPTERS0:00 Cold open0:35 Welcome to the Happy Tech Podcast1:16 BlizzCon 2026 is back2:32 World of Warcraft: Forever6:49 Diablo 5 goes dark13:49 StarCraft returns as an open-world shooter16:16 New Warcraft III campaign + remastering the classics19:02 Heroes of the Storm and Overwatch updates21:14 Diablo animated series on Netflix22:37 RPCS3 now plays PS3 games straight from the disc26:34 Should you grab a PS5 before GTA 6?28:28 A working computer built from 460 vacuum tubes30:37 Announcement: Happy Tech garage sale32:36 How was your week?35:34 Rapid fire: Nintendo's back-to-back Directs40:49 Commodore and Amiga are (sort of) back together41:44 Lenovo fixes bricked Legion Gos for free43:13 Sierra adventures come to the Commodore 6445:33 Doom running inside MS Paint46:06 A full 386 PC on a cheap dev board47:10 Minecraft rebuilt in C++ on the PS249:20 A 16-bit CPU built out of relays50:36 Guess the Price: original Xbox special editions57:19 Show and Tell: a signed StarCraft pro-scene case panel1:01:00 Show and Tell: a vintage Apple poster1:03:37 Garage sale reminder + outroSOURCESBlizzCon: Blizzard News, GamesRadar, Game Informer. RPCS3: TechSpot, Tom's Hardware. Tube computer: Hackaday. Nintendo Directs: Nintendo Life. Commodore/Amiga: GamesRadar, Hackaday. Legion Go: PC Gamer. AGI-64: Mean Hamster Software. DoomPaint, Minecraft on PS2: Tom's Hardware. tiny386, relay computer: Hackaday. Full links are in the YouTube description.Join our patrons for $1/month: https://www.patreon.com/canadiancomputercollector