Scams are not something that we often associate with game modding - nobody pays for a mod, there's surely no revenue stream in it. However, upon trying to find some mods for the newly re-mastered Bioshock (there is none, trust me) , I learned differently... My journey begins, like all bad things t...
Amplitude may have picked a very appropriate studio name, because their Endless Legend game just had its negative reviews amplified. Earlier this week, the game developer for the 4X fantasy/scifi series went and pulled down a mod for a Chinese translation of the game. They did this because the mod...
Just when you thought the #drama was over, suddenly, and no doubt in the face of mounting community pressure, Sony have done an about-face on the matter, and decided mods can come to Skyrim and Fallout 4 after all, but with major restrictions. We're probably not going to win any awards for being fi...
It's fair to say that the Universal Windows Platform, while offering some token mod support in the form of an isolated folder that games can optionally load mod content into, isn't exactly the most mod-friendly platform, except until now, perhaps... It's a shame that UWP is such a closed platform,...
The popular mod for Doom 2, Unloved, which was originally released in 2010, has been rebuilt using Unreal Engine 4, letting players experience the Silent Hill inspired horror in a whole new fidelity. The new engine allows the now fan-game to present a much darker, gruesome experience than the Doom...
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...
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 t...
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 Ba...
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....
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 fo...
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 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...
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 Modif...
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...
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 Evolv...