Fallout 4 is the first game in the franchise to give a voice to your protagonist. In previous titles, whenever you had a dialogue prompt, you'd simply read your character's lines. Since your character can speak, Bethesda trimmed down their dialogue prompts, only presenting you with the smallest snippet of each possible response. If you miss getting to read through each of the responses, then you're in luck.
If you're a Grand Theft Auto 5 fan who plays on the PC, you better think twice before you download mods...even if they're popular and widely known. Reports from upset users are stating that some of the most popular GTA 5 mods are installing malware of various sorts on users computers, including keyloggers and other programs. The "Angry Planes" mod is cited as one malicious GTA 5 mod, as well as "NoClip" and a mod manager. One user in particular has gone so far as to publish removal guides.
One Minecraft mod summons thousands of fans with a "Predator-like" set of abilities in 148144 commands. This fellow by the name of Sliced Lime has presented a command block machine for Minecraft which allows the wearer's outfit to change color depending on the block nearest the wearer. The result is a camouflage suit the likes of which we've only otherwise seen in the light-bending Predator beast from the Predator film series. This mod is not (yet) part of the standard game build, but you certainly can try it for yourself if you wish.
One of my favorite movies from the 80s was the original RoboCop film. The first couple of movies in the franchise were cool and then they were too cheesy for me to stomach. If you are a fan of those early RoboCop films and you like to play Grand Theft Auto IV, this mod will get you excited. GTA IV was a new RoboCop mod that puts ED-209 in the mix.
There's a modder out there by the name of MGX, a fellow who appears to have made it his life's work to modify the game NBA 2K13 and NBA 2K14 through the future. What he's done this week - and what's awakened us to his works that go well into the past - is to make a demo video of his NBA 2K14 video which has the Space Jam cast taking the court.
As spoken of early on in the initial announcements of NVIDIA's gaming handheld SHIELD, the company has made good on their promise to allow full software modification and hacking with the release of open source downloads this week. What this actually means is that NVIDIA is making it rather easy for the development community as well as the hacker community (which to be fair, for Android, are often one in the same) to do their thing.
The $35 Raspberry Pi hobby board is one of the most innovative pieces of circuitry that we've seen yet. It's so simple and cheap, yet it leads to thousands of hackers and modders cooking up their own concoctions of circuitry brilliance. One modder in particular, Sprite_tm, recently made a pocket-size MAME cabinet out of a Raspberry Pi and a few other pieces of circuitry.
Ask any PC gamer what makes the platform so great, and (after bragging about the hardware in their rig) mods are bound to come up at one point or another. After the immense success of The Witcher 2, CD Projekt Red is ready to open the game to modders, giving players the opportunity to create their own adventures set within the Witcher universe. It's an exciting prospect to be sure, and if you're interested in CDP's REDKit, you may be pleased to know that you can now sign-up for the beta.
If you've played military shooter ArmA 2, chances are you've heard of DayZ, a mod that turns the game into a multiplayer open world zombie-fest where no one is to be trusted as you struggle to survive. The mod is brilliant, if not a little rough around the edges in this early stage, and perhaps that's why ArmA 2 developer Bohemia Interactive has decided to turn it into a full release. DayZ creator Dean "Rocket" Hall announced the game today, saying that he will become project lead with Bohemia Interactive acting as publisher.
We talked a lot about the Raspberry Pi since little device first debuted. It's a cheap little computer designed to run a free operating system making it ideal for tinkering and cobbling together your own HTPC for the living room. Modder Ben Heck has constructed a very cool project using a $35 Raspberry Pi to create what looks like a wooden Commodore 64.
Some people have different ways to measure the success of their Twitter accounts, like retweets or number of followers, but how about boiling down all that activity into one easy to understand number? Stinkdigital had an interesting idea and put it to the test, by taking a Nike Fuelband, modifying it, and taking advantage of the generated Fuelband score to measure Twitter activity.
When we ran across this new Metro UI theme for the Galaxy Tab 10.1 Android tablet, we couldn't decide if Android users would be excited or outraged. I suspect there'll be a bit of both. If you're one of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 users who happens to appreciate the style of Microsoft's Metro UI theme, you can now install the theme to your Android tablet.
