In the latest stunning example of a UK government agency not having any idea what it's talking about, the UK's National Crime Agency, a nationally funded body designed to deal with serious and organised crime, suggested modding games turns kids into cyber-criminals. Game modding is, as we all know, not a new thing, so for the NCA to come out with this stat...
Microsoft announced today at MineCon, the yearly official Minecraft convention, that both the Pocket Edition and Windows 10 edition (both of which share most of the same code) will be getting limited mod support in the form of "add-ons". While Microsoft isn't labelling the feature as mods, due to their limited nature, the new add-ons will allow users to twe...
Battlegrounds is a new game which is being created in collaboration with a modder known as PLAYERUNKNOWN, best known for creating the "Battle Royale" series of mods for Arma 3 and H1Z1 - but is this new, Unreal Engine 4 based game, any good? The game, known by it's full title of "Playerunknown's Battlegrounds", takes the Battle Royale concept and brings it...
We know, you got sick of hearing about it, that's why we created our handy state-o-meter to keep track of the affair without 1001 articles flooding the page. Fear no longer, though, the drama is finally over: Bethesda have officially decided to call it a day, due to lack of co-operation from Sony. In a statement that has just been released, Bethesda said;...
Unfortunate news for fans looking forward to the spectacular GTA V Redux mod we covered a few weeks ago; a targeted hack against the mod author means there will be some delays to the release, but thankfully not for long. The mod author was a victim of a targeted attack, which has left the assets for the mod compromised and caused some data loss, thankfully,...
It's a question that actually comes up more often than not on our forums: "Which graphics card is best to run modded Fallout 4?" It's a good question, too. Games that run mods often tend to perform worse than stock versions for various reasons. So what should you, as a modder, look for when buying a GPU? To answer that question we need to more fully explor...
A new mod that adds Donald Trump to the Fallout 4 universe, with new quests and the ability to add the controversial politician and businessman as a companion, has been banned by Nexus Mods, citing copyright concerns. The mod, created by author Nyuton, was designed to show "how well Trump fits into the Fallout universe". The player finds Trump in Diamond Ci...
Captain's Log. Stardate 47634.44. In spite of a rocky launch, the E.S.C. FilesCruiser has exited the Sol system and is making for the final frontier at light speed. Chief of Engineering Sheepeep has informed me that our flux-capacitor is in need of changing, so we're stopping by at the nearest Modification Depot. That's right, folks. No Man's Sky has alread...
Japanese entertainment giant, Nintendo, is no stranger to controversies. They're starch defenders of their IP and trademarks, and have, in the past, even gotten into conflict with various YouTube personalities over their rights to a cut of their profits. Now, they're once more in the spotlight. The Twitter account belonging to MetroidDatabase, a huge fansit...
Studio Wildcard have announced full Steam Workshop support for dinosaur survival spin-off ARK: Survival of the Fittest, with both mod and custom map support, by re-integrating it back into ARK: Survival Evolved. As of today, ARK: SotF has been re-integrated into it's originator, Ark: Survival Evolved. This allows the developer to be able to provide unlimite...
While not always seen in the best of lights, nobody can argue the somewhat inexplicable popularity of the Farming Simulator series. The quality of the games has been on the rise in recent instalments, and the latest edition promises to bring mod support to both the PC and console versions. For those not familiar with the Farming Simulator series, and I can...
The mod, which allows you to change dialogue and all references to your pre-war spouse to be the same sex as your character, has attracted violent, homophobic messages and even death threats. The "LGBT Family" mod was created by Overseer777, to give players the choice of being a part of a same-sex couple in the in-game universe. The dialogue was also change...
It's been over a month now since Bethesda indefinitely delayed mod support for Fallout 4 on PS4, and we've had literally no news about the matter from any trusted source since. Is it time to get worried, and what does this mean for Skyrim on PS4? I'm still confident that if Bethesda can make this happen, they will: they've gone too far to back down now. The...
The author of Autumn Leaves, a popular Fallout: New Vegas mod, has accused Bethesda of lifting the story and progression of his mod for a quest in Fallout 4's "Far Harbour" DLC. In the article, the mod's maker, BaronVonChateau, details how a YouTuber made him aware of the similarities between the Brain Dead quest in Fallout 4, and Autumn Leaves. He also sho...
Yes, that rhymed. Kinda. In any event, a group of modders recently created "Los Santons Pride", a free mod designed to promote the recent Stockholm Pride, and it's awesome! The mod is a collaborative effort between several well-known GTA V modders, including Garbergs, JulioNiB, TheFriedTurkey, and 8-Bit Bastard. The mod brings the full glitz, glamour, music...