Tag Archives: mods

Patch v1.014 has been released for Company of Heroes’ Modern Combat mod, bringing with it a new playable faction in the form of US marines and a slew of texture and lighting upgrades.

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Are you ready to see Skyrim in a different light? Better strip off and throw your woolie hats away. Bethesda’s land just got tropical.

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A group of Starcraft modders are working on an unofficial sequel to Warcraft 3, aptly known as Warcraft: A New Dawn.

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CD Projekt RED has announced it will soon release the REDkit, a suite of tools that will set the modding community loose on the PC version of its acclaimed RPG, The Witcher 2: Assassin’s of Kings. REDkit will enable the creation of non-linear adventures, new locations and more, according to the CDPR blog post on the matter; expect some scamp to ensure that “more” equates to “mature content”.

The polish company will be providing behind-closed-doors media presentations of REDkit at next week’s gamescom in Germany.

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Gearbox’s Randy Pitchford has said not to expect an SDK to be released for Borderlands 2; however, he fully encourages the modding community to start mucking around with the game once it’s released.

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Bethesda’s head of everything Elder Scrolls wishes that the dirty console peasants could experience the glory of the PC modding community.  Hah! Silly man! More »

If you’re a Firaxis fan and a PC gamer, chances are you’re aware of the vibrant modding community surrounding its games such as Civilization V.
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Bethesda’s Todd Howard told G4 in the latest episode of X-Play he prefers mods over DLC and doesn’t understand why so many game companies don’t provide users the tools to create their own content nor why they don’t allow modding, period.

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A rather interesting machinima video from YouTube user Tyrannicon has surfaced, and it features 500 Draugr, 500 Dwarven warriors, 200 skeletons and a dragon going at it in Skyrim. According to the
video’s creator, it was developed using a combination of mods and console commands. We approve. Check it out below. Thanks, Gamefront.

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Bethesda has released a developer diary highlighting some of the features in the Skyrim’s Creation Kit, which will be made available soon on Steam.

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In a lovely hat-tip to its Unreal Tournament origins, Tripwire Interactive has unveiled the software development kit for Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad.

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GameFront is reporting on a new in-development mod for the PC that would bring cooperative and online play to Skyrim. The mod will reportedly allow players to quest together, trade items, and chat with other players worldwide.

There’s no word yet on exactly how it works since the mod is still in production, however a video was released that you can view after the break. The video is extremely rough, but it does show basic character models playing and moving around together in Whiterun (though without animation.)
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Deus Ex: Human Revolution’s black-and-gold colour scheme was a very deliberate design decision on the part of the team at Eidos Montreal – but fans have already modified it out of the PC version of the hit title.

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Modders have started releasing fixes and tweaks to Dead Island on PC. The list is rather large, but among some of the fixed listed on the Steam forum are: change field of view, the ability to disable motion blur, weapons blur, bloom, dust, and desaturate, and many other modifications and the ability to vsync which will help screen tearing issues. There’s also a few fun mods available as well. The PC Version of Dead Island, which was released last week, as seen issues with the PC version, most notably, the developers’ code being accidentally released on Steam instead of the retail version. Techland released a patch for the game, but players still reported bugs and problems with the multiplayer servers. Thanks, Kotaku.

Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad will keep players interested with mods, unlockables, free DLC, and maybe even expansions.

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This is no simple mod – this is Extreme PortalCraft, a new map for Minecraft featuring – you guessed it – a bunch of Portals.

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While a lot of folks feel they’ve been kicked in the neck over this PSN business and have seen loads of reports on the situation, other stuff happened in the world of games as well. Below, you will find that other stuff.

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A StarCraft fan group called CreationArtist25 have created a a pre-alpha version of what the group is calling World of StarCraft. It’s basically an MMO of StarCraft II which was built using the game’s mod tools.

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Individual modders whose work is featured in the Morrowind 2011 compendium have threatened legal action against its compiler, resulting in the removal of the 4Gb pack’s torrent.

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Getting bored with StarCraft II yet? Of course you’re not, but if you’re in the mood for a bit of a switcheroo, you may want to check out the 65,000 user created maps and mods for the game.

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