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 SALE

Saturday, [DATE] at our studio (the former Mike's General Store location), Winnipeg. Cables, keyboards (so many keyboards), routers, cases, monitors and more, all cheap.

CHAPTERS

0:00 Cold open

0:35 Welcome to the Happy Tech Podcast

1:16 BlizzCon 2026 is back

2:32 World of Warcraft: Forever

6:49 Diablo 5 goes dark

13:49 StarCraft returns as an open-world shooter

16:16 New Warcraft III campaign + remastering the classics

19:02 Heroes of the Storm and Overwatch updates

21:14 Diablo animated series on Netflix

22:37 RPCS3 now plays PS3 games straight from the disc

26:34 Should you grab a PS5 before GTA 6?

28:28 A working computer built from 460 vacuum tubes

30:37 Announcement: Happy Tech garage sale

32:36 How was your week?

35:34 Rapid fire: Nintendo's back-to-back Directs

40:49 Commodore and Amiga are (sort of) back together

41:44 Lenovo fixes bricked Legion Gos for free

43:13 Sierra adventures come to the Commodore 64

45:33 Doom running inside MS Paint

46:06 A full 386 PC on a cheap dev board

47:10 Minecraft rebuilt in C++ on the PS2

49:20 A 16-bit CPU built out of relays

50:36 Guess the Price: original Xbox special editions

57:19 Show and Tell: a signed StarCraft pro-scene case panel

1:01:00 Show and Tell: a vintage Apple poster

1:03:37 Garage sale reminder + outro

SOURCES

BlizzCon: 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.

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