Category Archives: Mods

Battlefield 3 will allow advanced users to fiddle with colour grading as of the next patch, replacing an banned mod.

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Over on the Far Cry blog, Ubisoft has announced that it will release a mod pack bringing the world of Far Cry 3 to Minecraft come October 26. The pack apparently includes modifications to “environments, weapons and tools”, “key Far Cry 3 locations and characters, including Vaas, Jason and Citra” and over 50 easter eggs to uncover. The announcement was accompanied by a series of playful mock-up images, but Ubisoft has confirmed the mod pack is very real. Far Cry 3 is due on PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in late November, or early December in the US.

Red Orchestra developer Tripwire Interactive is more than happy for fans to get creative tinkering around with its games.

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Heads up, Battlefield 3 fans: DICE doesn’t look kindly on you bringing mods to matches. Commenting on a mod which adds a splash of colour to the military shooter, DICE’s Gustav Halling said using “those hacks” could result in permanent bans, because it’s a “proper cheat”, not a brightness mod. Best to know this now and not after you find yourself on the end of the hammer.

Thanks, Blue.

The Legend of Grimrock’s Dungeon Editor will be released tomorrow, October 4, according to the official website. Already, over 150 mods have been published on Steam Workshop and Grimrock Nexus. The editor contains a lengthy list of changes and fixes as a result of beta testing, and can be found here. Thanks, Blue.

Morrowind Overhaul 3.0, which was created by the modding community, was released over the weekend. If you have Morrowind for PC, this is definitely worth checking out. Overhaul 3.0 was created with mods that cover nearly nine years of work, and the wiki can be visited to note the latest changes, and provide you with a list of modders who have helped with the project over the years. Nab it here, and while it’s downloading, watch a video of Morrowind Overhaul 3.0 below. We’ve already watched three times this morning. Join us for a fourth.

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DayZ creator Dean ‘Rocket’ Hall has shared his own thoughts on the arrest of two ArmA 3 developers arrested on the Greek island of Lemnos on suspicion of espionage. The developer – whose game is a mod of ArmA 2 – just wants to see the developers returned home safely.

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The Skywind project, which uses Bethesda’s Creation Engine, aims to bring The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind into the present kicking and screaming. Personally, we are pleased as punch to hear it. Ya gotta love dedicated modders.

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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim has inspired over 10,000 mods through Steam Workshop. StrategyInformer flagged the milestone, noting that the lucky 10,000th upload is the Shannara Weapon Set. Skyrim mods span the whole gamut from simple tweaks like Mythor’s Moar Dragons to character creation suites to full, storied plug in modules to the inevitable near-nude costumes.

Black Mesa, a fan conversion of Half-Life using the Source engine’s bells and whistles, will be all yours in as little as two weeks. And it only took eight years.

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NeoGAF member Durante has been toiling away since Dark Souls’ overnight release on PC and has released a mod unlocking the action RPG’s fixed 720p resolution. The completely unofficial fix is not guaranteed in any way, so you should probably only grab it if you know what you’re doing. The mod hasn’t been tested over the course of the whole game, and it seems that work is ongoing – it’s already been updated since its release a few hours ago, to remove a blur effect.

Thanks, games.on.net.

Kotaku‘s flagged a fan project to restore content cut from Fallout: New Vegas before launch. Read a description of the individual bits and piece here. All the uncovered content has been gathered up, turned into mods, and stored here, so you can grab it all and see the whole game-as-it-was if you feel like it. Obsidian’s Fallout 3 spin-off is one of those divisive titles, so if you didn’t feel the love the first time through, maybe this restored version will charm you at last.

Counter-strike: Global Offensive launches worldwide on August 21, and its very first mod will release alongside it. On the CS:GO blog, Valve revealed that the PlagueFest team have a zombie mod for the competitive shooter ready to go at launch. The developer has asked other modders to come forward if they’ll also have something to offer the community next week. Counter-strike: Global Offensive will also be available on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

Thanks, Joystiq.

Half-Life mod Black Mesa Source has sprung not one but two leaks, in a glorious rain of gameplay footage.

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The milestones just keep coming for ArmA 2 mod Day Z. The zombie survival experience has topped 1 million unique users, according to stats on the home page. Over 180,000 players have logged in over the last 24 hours, and of the 22.6 million characters which have ventured into the world, only 797,742 are alive, with a life expectancy of 49 minutes Hardcore. While we’re talking statistics, ArmA 2 is still ranked second on Steam’s charts, with only Skyrim’s Dawnguard DLC ahead of it, in all likelihood due to the mod’s growing popularity.

If you’ve got a mind to put together some fiendish dungeons for your friends to die repeatedly in (there’s a little DM in all of us, right?), then you might care to consider Legend of Grimrock.

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The popular zombie-inspired Arma II mod DayZ has been hit by a malicious security breach, allegedly threatening to turn the game’s servers into a potential botnet.

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The first batch of tickets for The International 2012 will go on sale this Tuesday, with additional batches released every day this week until Saturday June 16.

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After a lengthy period of silence, the development team behind the fan-made Half-Life remake “Black Mesa” has promised some “exciting new media” when the Black Mesa Facebook fan page reaches 20,000 ‘Likes’.

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Firaxis will replace Civilization V’s existing mod browser system with integrated Steam Workshop support. The grand strategy will be the seventh game to announce Workshop support after Team Fortress 2, Portal, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, and the forthcoming Toki Tori, Garry’s Mod and Gettysburg: Armored Warfare. More details on timing and early access are promised over the coming week.