Wololo, did you leave the scene ?

Alright.

Short answer: no. I’m still lurking, just much less active. That’s it.  For those interested in more details, read along

Well, it’s not really complicated. Long story short, this is a combination of dwindling interest and diminishing skills on my end.

1. Can’t git gud anymore

I’ve been fascinated by the hacking scene (console or otherwise) for as long as I’ve known about computers. My admiration for the PSP homebrew scene back in 2006 is what convinced me to open this blog and create my first (and only so far) homebrew game Wagic. That was my way to give back.

Somehow, things drifted from there and this humble blog became a reference source for all things PlayStation hacking, for many years. I also tried to contribute, with my limited knowledge and skills, to the progress of the hacking scene. Bragging time: I was the first person to publicly run unsigned code on the PSP Go, and on the PS Vita (in the PSP emulator).

I won’t lie, I was pretty proud of being the “go to place” for anyone wanting to understand the latest and greatest about PlayStation hacking. But I guess everybody reaches a plateau eventually. The inner workings and security of modern devices such as the PS Vita, the PS4, or the PS5, were way beyond my skills (combined with limited free time due to being a family man nowadays). I’ve tried, quite hard, to stay “on top of the game”, but over the past few years I was slowly realizing that I didn’t understand the hacking process for these devices, at least not well enough to explain it properly.

That grew quite frustrating (especially when some very prominent members of the scene would basically message me to tell me I basically didn’t understand a thing. It was true. It still hurts, because I was doing my best to both understand and explain those things…). And in parallel, some folks became better at explaining the progress of the scene than I was. (by the way shoutout in particular to Modded Warfare who has been doing an awesome job!).

So, this blog progressively grew irrelevant, and from there started a vicious circle involving my lack of interest, reduced traffic to the site, and less and less amount of time I was willing to spend on the scene.

So that’s it for my end of the deal: I wasn’t skilled enough anymore to justify being a driving source of info for the scene. This might come back, but for now that’s what it is.

There are other reasons too

2. Growing competition

We live in an ever changing world, and it’s become hard to justify owning and operating a blog, when everyone nowadays gets their news from youtube, reddit, and social media. Competition from these sites was bad but manageable in 2015. In 2025, with AI basically sucking all of my content and regurgitating it in places where I get neither the revenue nor the audience interaction, well what’s the point really ?

Look, this is a “granpa yelling at clouds” situation here, but I think the internet I used to love is dead. It’s all AI slop or closed-wall gardens such as Discord now. Frankly it sucks, and it’s depressing enough that there are days I don’t see the point in adding content to the machine.

I might be overdramatic, but the rise of AI-everything in all of the content we use was the final straw for me. With my site and its traffic only being a shadow of its former self, and my only audience being AI crawling bots (which by the way have no regards for site performance… they will suck all of your website’s content as fast as possible, bringing it to its knees. “Give us all your content and we’ll kill your site’s performance while we’re at it, thanks”), is there any reason to keep going ?

Ha, overdramatic for sure. But it was just one other reason to lose motivation.

3. The conclusion, and what’s next

I don’t think there is any good reason at the moment for me to keep talking about the scene progress: I don’t understand it enough anymore (and am not as passionate about it as much as I used to) that I can explain it properly, and even if I did, some people do it better than me today. Last but not least, it’s hard to justify from a “time investment” perspective, when the site’s traffic has been tanking for years.

Oh, I also want to thank the many people who reached out to me to ask if I was ok. In general I didn’t reply (sorry), but thanks a lot for reaching out! I did read the emails and comments on the blog!

Now, on the bright side, as I said I’m still lurking on the scene: I do actually have a release in the pipeline, hopefully for today. It’s a homebrew game, and it will be for PC and… Nintendo Switch! Stay tuned!