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Overwhelmed by the 1000+ Mods in the Skyrim Steam Workshop? These Are the Best (So Far)

The Skyrim Steam Workshop has gone online as the official mod repository for the game and modders are rushing to showcase their creations. Getting the mods is as easy as clicking the "subscribe" button and waiting for them to be automatically downloaded and installed when you open the Skyrim launcher. There are ...

9 February 2012
05:18 GMT

Lots of Skyrim Mods Already Available via Steam Workshop

Barely has the Steam Workshop functionality been added to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and already lots of intrepid modders have released add-ons for the massive RPG through the system, after tweaking them with the Creation Kit that was just released yesterday. While Skyrim impressed through great gameplay and story,...

8 February 2012
10:21 GMT

EndWeekGame: January 13

Andrei Dumitrescu: I seem to remember that Friday the 13th is some sort of unlucky date in most cultures (although Romanian tend to have an issue with Tuesday the Thirteenth, too) so I plan to head straight home tonight, turn off all electronics in order to stop friends from contacting me and read.Well, that’s ...

13 January 2012
16:31 GMT

Notch Leaves Minecraft Development, Bergensten Is in Charge

Markus Persson, aka Notch, has announced that he is no longer the leading developer working on Minecraft and that the reins of the indie hit have been passed to Jens Bergensten, one of his long time collaborators working at Mojang.Speaking to Gamasutra about the move Persson has stated, “I guess we've work...

5 December 2011
10:18 GMT

The 10 Most Impressive Skyrim Mods So Far

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim has been released for a few weeks but already it’s gained a cult-like following, with millions of gamers from all around the world enjoying the stunning role playing game made by Bethesda. While the standard experience is already extremely impressive, the game’s PC version w...

25 November 2011
23:01 GMT

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Gets Mod to Eliminate Spiders

Even before The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim was launched a group of players announced that they would be unable to buy and play the game because the game had a very realistic portrayal of spiders which triggered their arachnophobia.On the good old PC their problems are now solved because one of the first things that mod ...

14 November 2011
05:14 GMT

Diablo III Tech Is Moddable, Auction Houses Make that Impossible

Diablo III might be one of the biggest launches for 2012 but Blizzard's decision, linked to the Auction House mechanics, of eliminating any modding possibilities, led to disappointment for some of the long term fans of the series.Talking to GameFront at the Blizzcon event, Julian Love, who is the technical artis...

26 October 2011
05:51 GMT

Blizzard Marketplace Now Called Arcade, Has New Business Model

Video game developer Blizzard has announced that the old Marketplace initiative will now be known as the Blizzard Arcade and will allow creative players who know their way around game editors to make money by selling fellow players their new content.The announcement was made at Blizzcon and the developers are saying ...

24 October 2011
14:51 GMT

Deus Ex Diary: A Question of Style

Deus Ex: Human Revolution has quite the burden of expectations to bear, in its position as the spiritual successor and timeline prequel of the original game in the series, and one of its biggest accomplishments is coming very close to being perfect in terms of style.I am not talking about the graphics quality, which ...

1 September 2011
10:18 GMT

Weekend Reading: Losing Mods for Diablo III Makes the PC Poorer

Fans of Diablo III and of PC gaming, which developer Blizzard has long been a champion of, might have been prepared for an announcement that the game requires a continuous connection to the Internet, considering that it was already a requirement for Starcraft II, and for the fact that real money could be used to buy ...

5 August 2011
08:41 GMT

No Mods for Diablo III, Marketplace Still Coming to Starcraft II

We already know that players will need to always be online in order to be able to play the upcoming Diablo III and that the game will now offer an auction house system that allows for the use of real world money and now Blizzard has dropped another big piece of news about its next big project by saying that the title...

2 August 2011
02:38 GMT

StarCraft 2 Gets Three Official Mods

After being launched last year, StarCraft II has just received three official mods from its developer, Blizzard, which aim at introducing brand new gameplay mechanics into the real-time strategy game. Blizzard has been trying to fine tune the StarCraft II experience since its release, with the company pushing mult...

7 April 2011
04:21 GMT

Mods for Portal 2 Will Arrive on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360

Developer Valve has announced that those who are planning to pick up the upcoming first-person puzzle game Portal 2 on the Xbox 360 from Microsoft and the PlayStation 3 from Sony will be able to get access to the mods and other custom content that those getting the game on the PC will have the ability to create using...

25 January 2011
05:52 GMT

Leading Civilization V Designer Leaves Developer Firaxis

Jon Shafer, who was the leading designer working on the turn based strategy game Civilization V has left developer Firaxis, where he has worked for almost six years and where he contributed to the development of other strategy titles. News was broken by the Flash of Steel strategy oriented blog and is based on the...

22 December 2010
09:47 GMT

Attach LED Illuminating Thumbsticks to Your Xbox 360 Controller, Other Extras Too

We're pretty sure that many Xbox 360 fans out there do most of their gaming in the dark, and for this reason, equipping their controllers with some thumbsticks that glow in the dark seems to be a pretty hot idea, at least according to BGRMODS, the company enabling this add-on.Practically, the LED illuminating th...

23 November 2010
03:13 GMT

Call of Duty On the PC Will Offer a Platform Tailored Experience

The leading developer working on the PC version of the upcoming Call of Duty: Black Ops has said that the version of game he is working on will offer the same experience as the console ports of the game but translating it to the unique nature of PC gaming.Treyarch are the developers of the new Call of Duty and they h...

15 September 2010
16:11 GMT

Civilization V Will Import Maps Made for IV

It seems that one of the steps the developers at Firaxis have taken in order to make the upcoming Civilization V as friendly to mods as possible will be to allow all those interested to import maps that have been developed for versions of Civilization IV, the previous turn based strategy title in the long running ser...

29 June 2010
16:41 GMT

Civilization V Coming with In-Game Community Hub

One of the most expected PC videogames of the year is Civilization V, the turn based strategy title that is being developed under the leadership of Sid Meier at Firaxis and set to be published by Take Two. We already know quite a bit about how the game is being changed when compared to the still excellent Civilizatio...

17 June 2010
15:11 GMT

EndWeekGame: March 12

This week, the world of competitive road cycling got into full swing again with the famous Paris - Nice race kicking off and some pretty interesting results coming in. And as a lover of the sport, I plan on taking Pro Cycling Manager 2009 out for a new spin during this weekend, playing maybe the first two or three mo...

12 March 2010
17:01 GMT

ModDB Unveils Digital Distribution Service Desura

The group of people that have made ModDB the go to place for those looking to mod their gaming experience have unveiled a new initiative they hope will be just as much of a game changer. Desura, as it is named, is a digital distribution service similar to already established channels like Steam, Impulse, Direct2Drive...

29 December 2009
15:51 GMT

Weekend Reading: Mod Your Dragon Age: Origins Experience

I've finished Dragon Age: Origins two times now and I am preparing for a third playthrough (I am thinking about a Arcane Warrior Blood Mage hybrid). And the role playing experience which the people at BioWare have managed to deliver is pretty spectacular from the beginning to the end. But, as always, the experie...

28 November 2009
10:41 GMT

Important PC Mods Can't Run on the Xbox 360

One of the big things about PC gaming is the ability to take a base game experience and then create something new around it, expanding one element of the gameplay. The modding community is vibrant and Valve titles, like Half Life and Left 4 Dead, have been some of the most popular when it comes to mods. With the comp...

10 November 2009
16:41 GMT

User-Created Content Might Come for Console Dragon Age

It seems that BioWare is including user-generated content in its plans for Dragon Age: Origins, the role playing game set to debut on the Xbox 360 and on the PC on November 3, and on the PlayStation 3 later on during the same month. The videogame marks a return to the roots for BioWare, with the company comparing it ...

29 October 2009
07:53 GMT

Left 4 Dead DLC Announcement Imminent

When Left 4 Dead, the zombie themed shooter from Valve, came out in late 2008, some players were quick to complain about the fact that the four campaigns shipped with the game could be completed in around four or five hours by a player using the Normal difficulty level. Observers quickly pointed out that, given the p...

5 January 2009
19:01 GMT

Valve Supports Modders and Launches Their Creations on Steam

Valve has always been interested in the gaming community, especially modifying games. Let's not forget, one of the biggest online shooters, Counter Strike, was a result of a modification made to Valve's big game  Half Life. The success made Valve take the team behind it into its own studio and create n...

29 September 2008
14:01 GMT

"Mr. Modchips" Gets Caught and Fined

Piracy-related news surface every day, as the phenomenon has gone loose, giving massive headaches to all game and console producers. Taking that into consideration, every victory or justice over modders and hackers can be enjoyed to the fullest. This is also the case of "Mr. Modchips", or 39-year-old Neil Stanley Hi...

26 October 2007
08:48 GMT


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