Kotaku: Modders

Super Pixel Bros. is a Playable Super Mario Bros., in Only 64 Pixels

Owen Good — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 18:00:00 EDT

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This is Super Mario Bros. reduced to a 64-pixel version (sorta). Modder Brad Slattery made this handheld 8 by 8 LED board which displays a playable Super Mario Bros., if you use a lot of imagination, of course. Mario is just a single yellow blip. More »

Modders Celebrate the New NFL Season by Updating Tecmo Super Bowl to 2011

Owen Good — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 22:00:00 EDT

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Ah, and now the football video game that really is just a roster and uniform update, and that's all everyone wants it to be. Just in time for the NFL's kickoff tomorrow, modders today released Tecmo Super Bowl 2012. It's the same NES classic you've loved for 20 years, updated with the stars of the current league. More »

Brit Modder Wiped Out, but Doesn't Get Jail

Owen Good — Mon, 10 May 2010 20:30:00 EDT

A British programmer said to have reaped some £600,000 selling modchips that bypassed copy protection on four consoles avoided jail at his sentencing today, but only because the father of two was bankrupted by his conviction. More »

Bad Company 2 Devs Have Nothing But Love For The Modding Community

Mike Fahey — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:30:58 EST

The PC version of Battlefield: Bad Company 2 might not support mods, but developer DICE has nothing but love for the modding community. Producer Gordon Van Dyke talked modding and modders in yesterday's Kotaku Talk Radio podcast. More »

All Counts Thrown Out in Criminal Case v. UK Modder

Owen Good — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 12:00:00 EDT

Wednesday, a UK judge threw out 26 charges against the self-styled "No. 1 name in console modifications," leaving MrModChips, as Neil Higgs is known, to freely do his business (from his parents' home.) More broadly, some are hailing the decision as effectively ~~legalizing~~ legalising console modifications in Great Britain, six years after a similar decision in Australia. More »

Ben Heck, Not A Huge Gamer

Mark Wilson — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:40:00 EDT

Reuters just ran an interesting profile on internet-famous console modder Benjamin Heckendorn. It's definitely worth a quick read if you're interested in the man behind the DS Atari 2600 or Xbox 360 laptop, but we particularly enjoyed his response to his own gaming habits.

I didn't used to play, but last year I went out of my way to play more video games. I would probably maybe buy one game a year. Last year I said you know what, this is ridiculous.

Uh oh, all those games will probably rot his brain. More »

Modder Banishes PC To Hell

torif — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 18:00:50 EST

Nothing says serious gamer like a Dell Inspiron M155 with Satan's head glaring back at you! PC Modder Ken Kirby decided his computer needed a facelift, and opted for a more grotesque one in its place. The handiwork is pretty neat, but I don't think I could sleep in a room with that thing staring back at me. *shudders* It even has its own smoke machine. More »

Modder Faces Jail Time

Kim Phu — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 15:40:00 EDT

In San Diego, a modder named Frederick Brown was arrested after his house was raided by the San Diego Computer and Technology High-Tech Response Unit (otherwise conveniently known as "CATCH"). Brown had advertised on Craigslist and other website as being able to install mod chips and provide counterfeit games. The raid in his home proved he had over a thousand copies of pirated games as well as a large number of mod chips and hard drives preloaded with games that could be installed onto Xbox consoles. More »

Co-Op Available in Halo 3?

Kim Phu — Mon, 21 May 2007 11:40:00 EDT

The words Halo and Starcraft have been ringing in my ears since last week, and with the two highly-anticipated games being released (well, one being a semi-release), it looks like these two candidates for Prom Queen will be sounding out campaign speeches until one of them gets the crown. More »