Native PC ports of console games spread thanks to AI tool REA

Tom's Hardware explains the surge in native PC ports of former console exclusives: the Reverse Engineer Anything (REA) toolkit links decompilers and binary analyzers under AI agents. Decompiling Modern Warfare 2 took three months and up to 700 billion tokens.

• REA wires decompilers, binary and metadata analyzers into one AI-agent pipeline
• Decompiling Modern Warfare 2 took three months and up to 700 billion tokens
• Models like GPT-6 Astra and Claude 5.5 follow complex instructions more closely and act more autonomously
• Correctness is checked by recompiling and comparing byte-for-byte with the original