Published May 6, 2026, 4:00 PM EDT His love of PCs and their components was born out of trying to squeeze every ounce of performance out of the family computer. Tinkering with his own build at age 10 turned into building PCs for friends and family, fostering a passion that would ultimately take shape as a career path.  Besides being the first call for tech support for those close to him, Ty is a computer science student, with his focus being cloud computing and networking. He also competed in semi-pro Counter-Strike for 8 years, making him intimately familiar with everything to do with peripherals. Old consoles usually become interesting for one of two reasons: the games are still great, or the homebrew scene gives the hardware a second life. The Xbox 360 now has both. For a long time, Microsoft’s seventh-generation console was too locked down to be as flexible as systems like the Wii , PSP, or original Xbox.…