Published Nov 4, 2026, 11:31 AM EST

Patrick O'Rourke is XDA's News Editor and Entertainment Segment Lead. Previously, he was Pocket-lint's Editor-in-Chief, the Editor-in-Chief of Canadian tech publication MobileSyrup , and earlier in his career, he worked as the technology editor at the Financial Post and Postmedia . He's based in Toronto.

Over the past 15 years, he's written thousands of articles. Patrick has also interviewed dozens of tech industry executives and covered GDC, E3, Gamescom, WWDC, Apple keynotes, Samsung Unpacked events and more.

Patrick has a BA in journalism from Toronto Metropolitan University.

At this point, I shouldn't be surprised by the increasingly wild world of video game decompilations and recompilations , but here I am, once again a little blown away.

A few weeks ago, I wrote a news story about a Halo: Combat Evolved browser port that was based on OpenCE, an open-source decompilation of the iconic original Xbox game.…