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Studio Wildcard has released a major update to the ARK Development Kit, introducing more options for modders to shape their experiences. Additions include a custom cosmetics system, the ability to transfer items, and a Simple Game Framework.

Nexus Mods, arguably the biggest repository for game mods on the Web, has crossed the impressive milestone of 10 billion downloads.

In Nexus Mods' words: «A beast of monstrous proportions is approaching.» Today, the mod distribution site — home to some of the best community made video game additions (looking at you Shrek and Thomas) — will hit 10bn downloads.

NVIDIA RTX GPU users unite - a modder has released a free new Elden Ring DLSS 3.5 mod which improves performance.

Nexus Mods is something of an institution in the modding circles on PC. Standing shoulder-to-shoulder with ModDB, Nexus is one of the most prolific and popular modding websites, bar none, and this fact is driven home as it reaches a new milestone — 10 billion file downloads in total.

Phase 2 is now live globally on Season of Discovery and here is a collection of all class changes that were implemented for Phase 2 launch. While there hasn't been any official Patch Notes published, this can shed some light on class changes for those interested. Good luck in Phase 2! Phase 2 Overview Wowhead Talent Calculator

If you’ve played Daggerfall Unity, you’ll know it’s the best way to experience The Elder Scrolls 2 in the modern gaming climate. Now, with the full thing having recently launched, the creator of the project is looking to make their own game.

Today, ATLUS announced that Persona 3 Reload is the fastest-selling game in the franchise, having surpassed one million units sold within the first week of the launch date.

An interesting new Tekken 8 PC mod has been released, boosting the game's graphical fidelity beyond the game's ultra graphic settings.

Whether you’re looking to make things easier for yourself or alter the game visually, there’s already a Palworld mod out there for you.

Studio Wildcard has released more details about Ark: Survival Ascended’s upcoming ‘Custom Cosmetic’ modding system, and it’s been confirmed that it’ll start rolling it out this week.

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Cities: Skylines II developer Colossal Order has a uniquely close relationship with its community. The original Cities: Skylines came out in 2015 and gobbled up the audience that was left behind by EA’s SimCity, which came out in 2013 and was a busted mess. Cities: Skylines scratched that urban-planning itch, plus it cost just $30. The game came first to PC, Mac and Linux with modest hardware requirements, and it hit consoles within two years. Critically, Cities: Skylines also supported mods through the Steam Workshop, allowing players to add their own tools to the game and share those features with others.

Starfield is on track to crack Nexus's top 10 most-modded games ever, and it doesn't even have official mod support yet.

The success of Palworld has naturally led to comparisons between the game and Pokémon, with the internet now debating whether any legal ramifications could happen due to their similarities.

Disturbed by the noises produced by your graphics card? Fear not, since a Redditor has found an "interesting" cooling solution, and it would only require slapping ten different radiators on a single GPU.

Baldur's Gate 3 clearly prides itself on its realistic anatomy, as is any game that sneakily patches in willy physics months after release. It's not exactly shy when it comes to naughty bits, and neither is its fanbase, who have been up to all sorts of sordid activities on the game's subreddit, going so far as to figure out how big Halsin's member is when he's in bear form.

While the game may not look too different from past entries in the series, Tekken 8 comes with a lot of new features that can help you get better at the game. Alongside the enhanced Replay features, which provide players some tips on how to improve their gameplay, the latest entry in the series features Ghosts, fighters who recreate the fighting style of real players with the power of AI.

After The Pokemon Company revealed it would "investigate" games like Palworld for copyright infringement, the survival game's fans are confident it won't amount to much. 

Rewards from new boss encounters, hero skins, and game-changing mods are all available in when you complete different challenges in the roguelike No Return mode. The survival missions your chosen character can attempt in a run could unlock additional features. It may take time to meet every goal, but each challenge offers an exciting opportunity.

Pocketpair has just released a new Palworld Patch for PC, packing countermeasures against cheating and bug fixes.

A new Palworld mod that was released online today enables some ray tracing features, improves ambient occlusion and shadow quality and more.

French game developer DON'T NOD has uploaded the official PC system requirements for the upcoming action RPG Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden. You can find them on the game's Steam page, and they're not high at all, especially the minimum requirements.

The Pokemon Company seems to plan to "investigate" Palworld over the possibility of copyright infringement.

Here's your daily Palworld sales update: the open world survival crafting game with monster collection mechanics has now surpassed eight million units sold on Steam alone in less than a week from the early access launch. It also broke the two million concurrent players milestone on Valve's platform, a feat that was only ever managed by PUBG: Battlegrounds back when the Battle Royale game was at its height. There's still over a million difference between the two, but it would not be wise to discount Palworld at this point.

A modder has released several Palworld PC mods that improve the game's visuals and add FSR2/XeSS upscaling support.

After plenty of online speculation around whether it would actually happen, The Pokémon Company has released a statement about “another company’s game” released in January 2024. And we can say what we’re all thinking: Palworld.

Say what you will about the likes of Resident Evil 4, its iconic B-movie cheese means it’s a game that doesn’t take itself too seriously. However, there’s being flippant about certain aspects of your IP and…whatever’s going on with this mod.

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Nexus Mods will not host Pokemon mods for Palworld out of a fear of legal action from Nintendo.

New Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Nextgen Edition gameplay footage was shared online this week, providing a new look at the unofficial remaster's new mechanics and visuals.

Palworld has gained quite a massive amount of attention worldwide. Players are quickly pointing out that the game is very similar to the Pokemon franchise. However, it’s clear that players are interested in the game and are currently going through the gameplay experience for the supported platforms. But not every platform is available for the game. For instance, those on PlayStation 5 are left without access to Palworld. Well, it looks like the developers are not writing off the PlayStation 5 platform quite yet, and there’s a strong possibility that we’ll see the title launch eventually for the Sony console. 

Popular modding siteNexus Mods, which allows users to share and download mods for thousands of games, has confirmed that it’s “not comfortable” with hosting Pokémon-themed mods for Palworld, Pocketpair’s early-access survival and crafting game.

A new Tomb Raider RTX Remix comparison video was shared online a few hours ago, highlighting the massive visual differences brought to the first entry in the series by path tracing.

A new Tekken 8 mod for the game's demo version, allows users to enable Unreal Engine 5's Lumen tech, and more.

The dream continues for independent Japanese developer Pocketpair as Palworld has now sold over seven million units in just five days since its early access launch. The open world survival crafting game with monster collection mechanics had sold one million in eight hours, two in twenty-four, three in forty, five million in three days, and six in four days. What's even more impressive is that, according to Geoff Keighley, these sales are for the Steam version alone. They do not account for sales on the Microsoft Store via PC/Xbox, nor do they account for Game Pass player numbers.

The Tekken 8 countdown is on as the release time is now just one day away. 

As soon as the Internet first got its first look at juggernaut-to-be Palworld, many began accusing it of looking a lot like, well, let’s not play that game — you know what I’m talking about.

If you’ve been on the Internet the last few days, you know that Palworld, the “Pokémon with guns” style open-world survival game, has been a smashing success selling over 6 million copies and knocking down record after record on Steam, but it’s also been controversial. Some would say the game isn’t just inspired by Pokémon, it ventures into rip-off territory, something only exacerbated by things like the recently-teased Pokémon mod, leading some to wonder how much Nintendo and The Pokémon Company are willing to put up with.

Pocketpair has recently disclosed its Early Access roadmap for Palworld and announced a bunch of upcoming features.

One Terraria player is attempting the ultimate challenge: a hardcore, master mode run with a mod that makes 30 times more enemies spawn. If that sounds ridiculous and impossible, well… that's because it is.

If you’ve been itching to see retro games be given a bit of a pep in this modern gaming world, Nvidia’s RTX modding toolkit is already realizing that dream. With the open beta now out, prepare yourselves for an upscaled return of some classics.

Palworld’s astonishing launch success has grown further: it’s now the second most-popular game ever on Steam.

Only three days after Palworld launched, which fans have been calling 'Pokemon with guns' since it was announced anyway, someone made a mod that turned the player into Ash Ketchum and Pals into 'mons. But less than a day later, it has already been taken down by Nintendo.

It’s looking like Pikachu is going to hit the mines and earn its place in society.

A stunning Tomb Raider RTX Remix mod is now in the works, and from today, players can see how NVIDIA's tech improves the very first entry in the series with a free playable demo.

Palworld just keeps going on an absolutely incredible ride toward the top. The 'Pokémon with guns' survival crafting game released last Friday by Japanese developer Pocketpair has now sold six million units in just four days. It has also surpassed 1.5 million concurrent Steam players, inching ever closer to the second spot on the all-time chart. Counter-Strike 2 managed 1.8 million nine months ago, around the time of its launch, but it's a free-to-play game. Moreover, at this rate, Palworld could very well blaze past it during the next weekend.

A new The Witcher 3 mod that was released online this week further improves ray-traced global illumination in some clever ways.

The modder who put Pokémon into Palword has claimed “Nintendo has come for me” after a takedown of a tweet.

Nintendo is seemingly filing takedown requests against Pokemon mods for Palworld.

If there’s a popular game on PC, then it’s only a matter of time before there are mods for it. In the case of Palworld, it took less than a week for dozens of mods to start pouring in for this massively popular survival game. There is already a ton of content in the game now, with all the various items to craft and different Pal types to catch, but mods can help some of the lagging areas of the game before the developers have time to provide any official updates or patches.

Palworld's explosive rise continues even as it attracts a whole lot of criticism for its similarities to Pokemon. One person who's very much unimpressed is a former head of The Pokemon Company's legal team.

The undeniable overlap between Pokemon and Palworld has dominated discussion around the survival game's record-setting launch, and with actual, straight-up Pokemon mods already working to replace the lovable, legally distinct Pals, the game's budding modding community is drawing a line in the sand to hopefully ensure "that Nintendo's lawyers don't nuke all of us."  

Capcom’s latest update for Monster Hunter Rise on Steam has broken some compatibility with Steam Deck, with users reporting that they’re no longer to load the game on Valve’s handheld PC gaming platform.

Awesome Games Done Quick (AGDQ) 2024 has wrapped after a nonstop weeklong speedrunning marathon. This year’s charity raised over $2.5 million for the Prevent Cancer Foundation. Other highlights included four broken world records and a dog named Peanut Butter beating the oddball NES classic Gyromite.

If you love old PC games, but wish they had access to modern graphical flourishes, NVIDIA has you covered. The company just released a beta version of its long-awaited RTX Remix tool. This software is designed especially for modders and can be used to add ray-tracing and AI-upscaled textures to older games.

It was inevitable, but someone has already modded Pokemon’s pocket pals into the new creature catcher on the block, Palworld. 

A Palworld Pokémon mod is inbound even though the new hit title doesn't officially support mods at this stage.

Today, almost a year and a half after the modding platform's announcement, NVIDIA releases the highly anticipated RTX Remix creator toolkit Open Beta. While the runtime has been available for some time, the public availability of the creator toolkit should really kickstart the modders' work to easily remaster classic PC games with cutting-edge rendering features like path tracing, DLSS 3, and AI-upscaled assets. NVIDIA is also partnering with ModDB to make it easier for users to check out which games are compatible with RTX Remix and to get the optimized configuration files to run the mods.

Starfield may not be the best-looking open-world RPG released in recent times, but its visuals are only a few tweaks away from being stunning, as showcased in a new video shared online this month.

CD Projekt Red plans to kick off the production phase of The Witcher 4 this year, according to the Studio Head and Joint CEO Adam Badowski.

Before launch, Palworld was hyped up as "Pokemon with guns" - and now someone has turned it into exactly that. In a video being shared around social media, a Palworld player has modded Pokemon models into the game, replacing the Pals entirely.

While we wait for CD Projekt Red's next The Witcher saga, those wanting to replay the most recent entry in the series might want to check out the The Witcher 3 Eternal Hunt mod.

While there’s nothing wrong with playing the remake of Resident Evil 4 as intended, some have been hoping for a first-person view. The VR update does allow for that, but now there is a mod for those that don’t have a headset but still want a first-person RE4 experience.

NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 40 GPUs are being repurposed in a range of ways with some repurposing mobility dies for desktops & others simply scamming people online.

Palworld now has a Pokémon mod from the same creator who hit the headlines recently for adding famous Disney characters to Mortal Kombat.

CAPCOM has added the Enigma DRM to Monster Hunter Rise with the latest update, as reported by Twitter user DakaR:FT. The DRM is being slowly introduced to older titles, causing a ruckus with Resident Evil Revelations, where people reported various performance issues. The Japanese publisher eventually reversed the update after a wave of review bombing on Steam.

There are a couple of pretty evil playable paths in Baldur's Gate 3. You can play as Astarion, side with Minthara, ascend after ripping away Cazador's power, and take control of the Absolute for yourself. Or you can play as the Dark Urge and give into every twisted impulse, reaching the city by climbing a mountain of corpses. But modders are taking things a step further, letting us play as the big bad trio themselves.

AMD FSR 3 has started to receive widespread adoption from the industry, with the addition of two new titles supporting the technology.

Bethesda has been publishing regular updates addressing various Starfield bugs for several months now, and community modders have been addressing many of the same issues - sometimes at a faster pace. Today, in the aftermath of the beta launch of the latest Starfield patch, the studio has explained why mods might be able to handle bug fixes faster than the devs themselves.

The virtual reality community never ceases to impress when it comes to modding and community support. Even though more and more AAA VR games continue to be released, some of the best VR experiences to this day are mods and community creations.

Being a roguelite mode, The Last of Us Part II Remastered's No Return play mode can feel overwhelming, especially during the first couple of runs. With upgrades and weapons having to be procured as the run proceeds, you need excellent knowledge of the game's combat mechanics to complete runs successfully.

As promised last week, Bethesda Game Studios has pushed the beta of the next Starfield update, version 1.9.47.0, on Steam. Anyone can switch to this build by selecting the beta tab on the Steam client.

A new PlayStation 5 DualSense controller PC app called PCXSense is now available for download, allowing users to get more out of the controller in PC games and emulators.

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A Baldur's Gate 3 player, who was determined to beat Honour Mode in the most honorable way, ends up failing on the final boss that only had 19 HP left. 

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Dark Messiah of Might and Magic may have launched over seventeen years ago on PC, but its status as a cult classic remains cemented in the hearts of many fans. Arkane struck gold with the excellent first-person melee-based combat, which remained the benchmark in action RPGs for quite a while.

Just like the gangly, spider-like monsters that scurry through its industrial corridors, Lethal Company appeared to come out of nowhere. Created by a solo developer who goes by the alias Zeekerss, the video game became an absolute sensation on platforms like Twitch and garnered more than 239,000 concurrent players on Steam within months of its October release.