The Price of Modifications for Our Games: How Mods Behind Paywalls Threaten the Spirit of Gaming

For decades, the modding community has been the unsung hero of the PC gaming ecosystem. What started with hobbyists tweaking code on floppy disks has evolved into a massive creative force that keeps games alive for years after release. The vast majority of this work is given away freely—a gift from the most dedicated fans […]

A Brief History of Mods: From Passion Projects to Game Changers

The story of modding begins not with a store-bought disk, but with a massive, room-filling computer. In 1962, Spacewar! was created at MIT as a simple test for the PDP-1 computer.