Earlier this week, a mod for God of War: Ragnarok disabled all PlayStation runtime elements for the game, allowing users to play the game without linking a Steam account to a PSN account. Now, the mod has mysteriously disappeared. According to Nexus Mods, the mod was deleted by the author, …
Read More »Fallout London was redeemed over half a million times in its first 24 hours
Following years of hype and a number of unfortunate and unforeseen delays, TeamFOLON’s Fallout London mod released late last month to high praise and a great deal of interest. It seems all the hard work by the team has paid off, as Fallout London managed to surpass 500,000 players in its first 24 hours.
Read More »Fallout: London releases today via GOG
After a couple of unexpected delays, the FOLON team is finally dropping Fallout: London today. Fans will be able to jump into the total conversion mod later today, turning Fallout 4 into an entirely new game with a full campaign set in a part of the world previously unexplored in …
Read More »Fallout London will feature real British political leaders as voice actors
Fallout London is easily one of the most anticipated Fallout Projects of all time, despite being an unofficial fan-made mod. The ambitions of this DLC-sized mod has amassed a great deal of interest and curiosity. This is even more so the case now following the reveal that the mod will …
Read More »The Fallout: London mod requires players to remove Fallout 4 next-gen update
Fallout: London is finally dropping this month after a small delay. The ambitious mod will allow Fallout 4 players to explore an entirely new map, in a part of the world not explored in previous Fallout games. The mod will require players to uninstall Bethesda's recent ‘next-gen' update for the …
Read More »Fallout London release appears imminent as devs give progress update
Fallout London is one of the most anticipated mods ever created for a Bethesda Game Studios title, with the DLC-sized mod bringing the entirety of London to the Fallout universe. Initially planned to release back in April, the surprise Fallout 4 next-gen update threw a spanner into the works, with no follow-up release date announced. It seems the team have finally worked through the changes brought about with the most recent update, as Fallout London now appears to be releasing imminently.
Read More »Modded RTX 4090 gains 13% performance boost thanks to 26 Gbps GDDR6X memory alone
The TecLab team has been hard at work on an intriguing new project they've dubbed RTX 4090 Super. By heavily modding and overclocking an RTX 4090, the team improved the card's performance by about 39%. The two most interesting upgrades/mods done by Teclab (via Wccftech) are probably the integration of …
Read More »Fallout London creators might “be forced to release” their previously-delayed mod
Fallout London is an interesting total conversion mod created by Team FOLON which has been in the works for years now. Initially planned to release on the 23rd of April, the game-sized mod was delayed due to the surprise announcement of Fallout 4’s ‘next-gen’ update. Depending on how many complications …
Read More »Gears of War creator’s other shooter, LawBreakers, returns thanks to modders
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, …
Read More »Modders bring World of Warcraft to VR
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 …
Read More »Aspyr’s Battlefront Classic Collection reportedly used modder’s work uncredited
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. …
Read More »New UEFI mod allows you to enable ReBar on GTX 16 and RTX 20 GPUs
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 …
Read More »New mod allows you to enable Resizeable BAR on older systems for extra performance
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 …
Read More »New mod allows you to enable RTX TrueHDR in any PC game
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 …
Read More »Modders have already found a way to use FSR 3 frame generation in games that support DLSS 3
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 …
Read More »Modder puts 32GB of LPDDR5X-7500 memory on ROG Ally
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 …
Read More »The big community-made Starfield patch is now available
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 …
Read More »Modder reimagines Skyrim as an RTS game
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 …
Read More »New Denuvo products make PC game modding and Nintendo Switch emulation harder
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 …
Read More »New Nvidia GPU BIOS flashing tool allows users to bypass signature checks
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 …
Read More »Rockstar acquires team behind popular FiveM GTA Online mod
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 …
Read More »Fallout London mod gets Q4 2023 release window
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 …
Read More »Skyblivion is a fan-made Oblivion remake in the Skyrim engine
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 …
Read More »Nvidia’s RTX Remix tool enables modders to create their own ‘remasters’ with ease
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 …
Read More »Modders are already teaming up to work on a big Starfield bug patch
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.
Read More »The mystery behind Nier: Automata’s hidden church has been solved
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 …
Read More »Modder creates AMD DLAA competitor with FSR 2.0 in Metro Exodus
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.
Read More »Skyrim Together Reborn is launching this week
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 …
Read More »Valve engineer warns against Steam Deck SSD mod
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.
Read More »Modder brings FSR 2.0 to Cyberpunk 2077
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 …
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