Ironically, the more popular a video game is, the more effort fans invest in changing it. The International Trade Administration valued the video game industry at $184 billion globally in 2023. As it ...

Max has been an enthusiast of computers ever since first laying hands on his family's home PC over 20 years ago, playing and even creating custom mods for his favourite games, such as Counter-Strike, ...

Modding platform Mod.io is one of the companies that believes modding has moved into the mainstream, and it has 300 million downloads to prove it. The Victoria, Australia-based company believes that ...

Strategy games like Total War: Warhammer 3 foster vibrant modding communities with high-quality mods enhancing gameplay. Civilization 5's mods offer new civilizations, gameplay changes, and even total ...

For most PC gamers, the ability to update their game with a wide variety of mods is a huge benefit they can claim over most (but not all) console players. But Japanese publisher Capcom (Resident Evil, ...

Modding is sometimes the best experience you can have with a game. Here are the 10 games with the most experience-altering ...

Humankind recently received a beta version of its mod tools, and the developers previously released a basic guide on how creators and users can start to employ Humankind mods now that Amplitude ...

Upgrades to Portal and Morrowind demonstrate the sheer power of this new GeForce RTX-based modding tool. Could it upend the way the gaming community creates mods and ray-tracing remasters? I’ve been a ...

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Natalie (She/Her) is a writer and game design enthusiast hailing from way-too-sunny Los Angeles. She loves to dissect game narrative and analyze mechanics, but she doesn’t even want to think about how ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. A British writer who specializes in indie gaming. Mods and user-generated content (UGC) are so intrinsic to the evolution of the ...