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In recent months, there has been some chatter around the shutdown 2017 shooter LawBreakers and a potential revival. While the game's creator, Cliff Bleszinski had hoped to find a new publishing partner to take on the game and bring it back to life, that hasn't panned out. In the meantime, …

There have been many mods over the years to make 3D games playable in VR. However, few of them offer 6 degrees of freedom with motion controls baked in. The developers behind the Flat2VR mod have been working on the technology for a decade at this point and recently, they …

Fans were already quick to notice the AI upscaling used for Aspyr's recent Battlefront: Classic Collection remasters, with this being seen as the main culprit for the game's massive 70GB+ install size. As it turns out, the launch version of the game may also contain mods without the creator's permission.  …

Resizable BAR is a useful feature that can improve GPU performance. The catch is that enabling it is restricted to newer-gen systems. On the Nvidia side, you need at least an RTX 30 series GPU to activate it, but a new mod will enable the use of ReBar on GTX …

If you have an older PC that does not officially support ReBAR, you might be interested in this new mod. An open source tool is now available to enable ReBAR on more systems, which can improve gaming performance by as much as 12 percent.  The ResizableBAR technology became popular in …

In January, Nvidia released the Geforce 551.23 WHQL graphics driver that introduced a new feature called RTX Video HDR (or TrueHDR). This feature allowed all RTX users to convert non-HDR video streams into HDR videos in real-time, but it is still limited to specific applications. Recently, a modder found a …

With FSR 3 going open source, it was just a matter of time before modders started to add support for the technology into games. Gamers can already use FSR 3 frame generation in some games that don't officially support the technology, including The Last Of Us Part 1 and Cyberpunk …

Upgrading the memory on a desktop is simple, but the new age of handheld gaming PCs is a different story, requiring specific teardown knowledge and the right tools for the job. Still, it is possible, as one modder was able to upgrade an ROG Ally with 32GB of ultra-fast DDR5 …

Bethesda has been working on its own patches for Starfield in the weeks since its launch but as always, the community has patch plans of its own. Following on from the unofficial patches for Skyrim and Fallout 4, the Starfield Community Patch is now available for PC players.  This mod …

I've never really put much thought into the idea of turning The Elder Scrolls into an RTS game but one modder certainly has and now with a Skyrim RTS mod on the cusp of release, the idea sure makes a lot of sense. Skyrim has had a very healthy modding …

Irdeto, the company behind Denuvo, has introduced a set of anti-piracy tools for both the PC (Unreal Engine) and the Nintendo Switch. Although beneficial for developers, gamers may not see the inclusion of these tools as a good thing, as they'll deem PC game modding and Switch emulation impossible. The …

Nvidia ended video BIOS modification over a decade ago when it added BIOS signature checks. Using an on-die security processor named Falcon, the company stopped users from changing the BIOS their card ships with. The GeForce 900 series was the first to feature the security chip, which has been kept …

GTA Online has been a huge success for Rockstar and has arguably been a bigger draw to GTA V than the excellent single-player portion of the game. Role Playing servers have been a huge thing for GTA Online too, with many of them flocking to mods like FiveM to enable …

Fallout London is an ambitious DLC-sized total conversion mod for Fallout 4, taking players outside of the US for the first time to the “previously unexplored post-apocalyptic environment of London”. Initially planned for release in Q3 of this year, the mod has now been pushed back to the end of …

It feels like an eternity since the development team behind Skyblivion first announced the mod. The project, which aims to remake Oblivion in the Skyrim engine, has been in development for over ten years, but it seems we finally have a launch date. According to the devs, the mod will …

Today's Nvidia stream didn't just deliver the announcements for RTX 4090 and RTX 4080. We also saw a number of other announcements for Nvidia Omniverse, a software stack featuring AI and ray-tracing tools that can be used to generate new content. Nvidia used these tools to create the newly announced …

With every major Bethesda game comes a flurry of mods and typically, one of the most installed mods is an unofficial patch that fixes bugs that have persisted in Creation Engine games. There were heavily-downloaded unofficial patches for Skyrim, Fallout 4 and soon, Starfield will join that list. 

Fans of the Nier series have been on quite the rollercoaster recently, as the community has scrambled to figure out the mystery behind a secret door leading to a completely new area of the map that had seemingly gone undiscovered since the launch of Nier: Automata. Today, we finally got …

Since FSR 2.0 went open-source, modders have been having some fun implementing it in games that don't officially support it. The modder 'Muddymind' took things a step further, forcing FSR 2.0 to render at native resolution, essentially creating AMD's version of DLAA. 

Modders have been working on enabling co-op multiplayer for Skyrim for years in various forms, like Skyrim Together and Tamriel Online. Later this week, the most promising Skyrim multiplayer mod to date will launch – Skyrim Together Reborn.  Skyrim Together Reborn is a version 1.0 update to Skyrim Together, marking …

Officially, Steam Deck only supports M.2 2230 SSDs, but modders have found a way to use 2242 form factor SSDs inside the portable console. This increases the variety of SSDs you can mount on the console and the storage, as 2242 SSDs tend to come with more. However, modding the console to support such SSDs will shorten its lifespan, according to a Valve engineer.

Cyberpunk 2077 already supports FSR 1.0 and DLSS 2.0, allowing players to use upscaling to save on performance and increase frame rates. Unfortunately, CD Projekt Red hasn't got around to upgrading to FSR 2.0 yet, but thanks to the efforts of one modder, we can add in the new upscaling …

Modders are slowly but surely beginning to figure out how to make changes to Halo Infinite. The latest mod to make headlines completely shifts gameplay, enabling a third-person view of Master Chief and the Zeta Halo.  Since the beginning, Halo has been a first-person shooter franchise, while other Microsoft IP, …

As great as Doom Classic is, it is also a true product of its time, with graphics that haven't aged well. Fortunately, through mods, you can give the game quite the graphics overhaul, especially if it is as well implemented as this new ray-tracing mod. 

Fifteen years ago, pictures of a fake portable Gamecube were floating around the Internet. Much like the Gameboy Advance SP, the renders showed a hand-sized, laptop-like console that seemed too good to be true for that era. However, that concept design is now possible with today's technology, so a modder …

The latest Mac Mini was the first of its kind to feature an M-series chip, and despite using a smaller motherboard, the overall size remained the same as its predecessors. Unhappy with the 2020 Mac Mini size, a modder transplanted the system to a smaller chassis, reducing its volume by …

Recently across Reddit, one lone developer has been posting clips of a private Pokemon first-person shooter fan game. These short videos showcased a Pokemon game built in Unreal Engine, where the player runs around the map and shoots at Pokemon with various guns. Some of these clips ended up going …

Ever since the game first came out, modders have been doing some amazing work with Cyberpunk 2077 – CD Projekt Red even ended up hiring some of them to help with development. This week, one of the most impressive mods for the game released, adding in a fully functional metro …

While Xbox Game Pass offers an incredible value for money across both PC and consoles, the PC version of the service falls behind due to its lack of features when compared to the likes of Steam. Finally, the Xbox app on Windows will soon offer mod support, allowing for much …

A modder has managed to re-create most of Rare's classic shooter, GoldenEye 007, all using Far Cry 5's map editing tools. Every level from the original game has been rebuilt within Far Cry 5, with the exception of the game's two bonus levels.  The modder, who goes by Krollywood online, …