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Back at the tail-end of 2021, Bethesda released the Anniversary Edition of Skyrim. Along with new content and the official DLC, the game also came with a new fishing mode. Pleasant though it was, one person felt it needed a bit of tweaking. Veteran Skyrim modder JaySerpa is back again with another improvement to TES5. This time, they’ve decided to overhaul the fishing aspect of the game. Their latest mod tackles (funny joke!) the overall mechanics of this chill mini-game. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSRfatdkTvo In…

Recently, a group of modders released their own Community Patch for Starfield, representing a collaboration working to improve the studio’s new IP. Creative fans have crafted mods left, right, and center since the game’s release, and that’s without official modding support from Bethesda. In a recent interview with Eurogamer, Timothy “Halgari” Baldridge, one of the founders of the Starfield Community Patch, spoke about the efforts being put in to fix issues with the space-faring RPG. Halgari broke down how Starfield’s…

Gary Bowser, a public face of the aftermarket console modding scene, unwittingly became one of Nintendo’s most hated antagonists. Now after more than a year in the proverbial federal dungeons, Bowser finally has his shot at freedom. Though even as Bowser looks to return home to Canada (and not some massive castle in the sky), Nintendo will continue to hound the ex-modder for nearly $10 million in court-ordered restitution.What Was Your First Experience with Super Mario Bros? | io9 InterviewBack in 2020, Bowser (no, not…

The high-gloss top plate looks pretty, but will of course pick up fingerprints and smudges. Michael Gariffo/ZDNETWhile some at-home fighting game players are completely comfortable relying on standard gamepads for their pummeling needs, others prefer the original, arcade-like experience of using a fighting stick. Among those enthusiasts, it's very popular to take things a step further by modifying their fight sticks to suit their exact preferences for feel or looks. Tweaks like different buttons and differently shaped…

Cyberpunk 2077 now has an official modding tool. CD Projekt RED has launched REDmod, which provides players integrated support to easily install and load mods onto the PC version of the action RPG. As the developer's official announcement notes, it will also allow players to modify and personalize their game by using the custom sounds, animations and scripts that come with the tool. CD Projekt Red promises to update the tool alongside future patches to ensure that it remains compatible with the game. It is a free DLC,…

Make Night City your own CD Projekt Red updated Cyberpunk 2077 with patch 1.6 this week, adding crossover content and a host of fixes. But a tool was also tucked into the patch: official mod tools for Cyberpunk 2077. In patch 1.6 (via Eurogamer), REDmod is set of new modding tools for CD Projekt Red’s open-world RPG. It’s a free DLC that adds “integrated upport for installing and loading mods” into Cyberpunk 2077. The REDmod also adds new modding tools which can be used specifically for Cyberpunk 2077. These tools can be…

Total War: Warhammer 3‘s latest update 2.1 has introduced the Assembly Kit for the modding community and much more. As the patch notes for update 2.1 explain, the update introduces a bunch of critical fixes and quality-of-life changes but most notably, introduces the Assembly Kit which will help players mod the game. This long-awaited feature wasn’t accessible when Total War: Warhammer 3 was released and is the biggest addition with 2.1. In terms of gameplay updates, the biggest change that Creative Assembly has added…

A group of modders have created a go-kart game mode in Valve’s massively popular team shooter Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO).  Released today (August 29), the mod is available for download straight from Steam itself here. Dubbed a “vehicular capture the flag gameplay mode for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive,” players can fire rockets at opponents, jump, and do a slam attack form the air to both capture and secure flags (via Dot Esports). Check out a short clip of CS:GO Kart from the self-proclaimed “two random…

A user-created game modification — or mod — designed to replace in-game pride flags from the recently-released PC port of Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered, was reportedlt taken down by NexusMods and ModDB, two of the biggest online sites for PC game mods. Both sites have confirmed that the 'troll' mod, which was uploaded from a new account, had been removed.According to a report by The Verge, popular game mod hosting site NexusMods explained in a blog post that the mod for Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered was uploaded to its…

Major PC modding sites Nexus Mods and ModDB have banned users for uploading anti-LGBTQ content they modded into Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered.  The bans specifically target mods that replaced every Pride flag with American flags. Nexus Mods wrote in a blog post yesterday that a modder created a sock puppet account named Mike Hawk to upload a mod that swapped out the Pride flags flying off a few buildings in the game with American flags. The site called the user a “coward” for creating an alternative profile to troll…