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Mods EXPAND STORY TEXTSSubscribe to this tag Crazy enough to work: Left 4 Dead campaigns in L4D2 13 In this episode of "Adventures in Batsh*t Insane PC Gamer Trickery," we get to see how a conversion of Left 4 Dead to the Left 4 Dead 2 standard is done. Someone was crazy enough to bring the fir... A new use for your Steel Battalion controller 14 Steel Battalion? One of the best games to ever hit the original Xbox. It's a game where you control a giant mech using two joysticks, three foot pedals and a 40 button controller that came with ... Unleashing creativity with PS3-exclusive ModNation Racers 23 A surprise announcement at E3 this year, the PlayStation 3 exclusive ModNation Racers looks to redefine the kart racing genre with its ridiculous level of customization and community featur... Level 1-1 done in Reggie!, a New Super Mario Bros. editor 20 New Super Mario Brothers Wii has been out for, oh, about 48 hours, but the Wii homebrew scene is already on the case: GBAtemp user Tanks has recreated Level 1-1 from the original Super Mario Bro... Dino D-Day: Great mod or greatest mod? 25 It finally happened. Someone made a Half-Life 2 mod about Nazis, dinosaurs, and Nazi dinosaurs. Sure, the main reason why I want to even give it a try is incredibly shallow, but even still, it's ... Microsoft bans up to one million Xbox Live users 122 Microsoft went on a banning spree this past week and up to one million users have been banned from Xbox Live for having modded consoles. Don't feel sorry for those idiots as you should know not t... TorchED released: Go poke around until something breaks 14 The appropriately titled TorchED, the editor for -- yup, you guessed it -- Runic Games' Torchlight, is now up for download. At 384 MB, it'll be no time before the program is beamed to your hard d... Um, okay: PS3 Slim dipped in 24kt gold 43 Computer-Choppers is a company that dips electronics in gold. Why? For rich assh*les I guess. The next project from Computer-Choppers was revealed on ChipChick and the company is set to dip five ... OutRun cabinet getting modded into a drivable vehicle 13 Someone is going to die. Garnet Hertz is taking a 1986 sit-down OutRun arcade cabinet and is going to transform it into an actually drivable vehicle. Garnet is stuffing an electric scoo... Another portable GameCube mod because why not 7 Modder Hailrazer took a GameCube and some other electronics, stripped them down and created the portable GameCube you see above. The case was from a Datamax Kid's Delight, the screen was origina... Roombas modded to play a real game of Pac-Man 11 Roombas! They clean sh*t off your floor so you don't have to you lazy bastards. Aside from cleaning, Roombas are very hackable and we've seen a lot of mods but nothing as good as this.* A team o... Valve explains why L4D2 mods on Xbox 360 'can't' work 48 If there's one thing that PC versions of (non-Infinity Ward) games have over console versions, it's the excellent modding community. PC gamers have been able to extend the longevity of their favo... New Stonesense visualizer makes Dwarf Fortress playable 23 Forget Silent Hill or Fatal Frame. You know a game that's terrifying? Bay12's Slaves to Armok: God of Blood: Dwarf Fortress II, colloquially shortened to simply Dwarf Fortress. If being one of A... Play as Special Infected in the L4D2 demo because you can 22 Run through "The Parish" one too many times in the Left 4 Dead 2 demo and need something new to do? Over on L4DMods.com, they have got an interesting solution to your conundrum, mysterious Intern... Custom Air Man figure has a real working fan 9 Jin-Saotome is a master at making custom videogame figures from GI Joes and other toys. He's made plenty of Mega Man themed figures to date and his latest one is the best yet. The Air Man figure... Remember turbo buttons? Get some for your Xbox 360 45 I used to rock the turbo buttons on my NES Max controller, even if I didn't need to. I felt like a badass, thinking that while everyone else was using plain-jane ol' standard NES controllers, I ... BabaGeek: Halloween 2009 Custom Yoshi Mascot and Baby Mario Costumes Finished 44 [Editor's note: craineum is at it again with his Halloween costumes. Last year, he made his kids Mega Man and Kid Icarus outfits. This year, his kids are dressing up as Yoshi and Mario. Sweet! --... Knytt Online Open Beta on the way 19 Almost exactly a year ago, Andrew Noel announced on the Nifflas forums that, after getting permission from the games' original creator, he was going to work on an online version of the Knytt game... Power Wheels car modded into the Warthog car from Halo 20 Okay, first of all, there's a community devoted to modifying Power Wheels. That's just awesome. Anyway, user flux83 over on the Modified Power Wheels Forums took a Street Scene Silverado Power Wh... Protect your USBs precious info with the Konami code 10  I admit, I like fancy flash drives. I haven't purchased one yet because the price is typically rape for the extra decor, but I've certainly smiled when I've seen an innovative one. Sighted ... Portable gaming in a game 21 I'm not so sure about the practicality level of this, but the awesome level is off the charts. Airz, a forum member over at Ben Heck's site, created a portable gaming system out of a Super Mario ... This TF2 hide and seek mod is the highlight of my week 50 When you take into consideration how I skateboarded off of an exploding parking garage while being chased by a runaway UPS truck full of bears only to land in one of those portable swimming pool ... Wii update may be bricking innocent consoles 39 Remember the new firmware update which Nintendo just sent out to do away with all those nasty people who have been running the Homebrew Channel? You know, another one of those feeble attempts to ... Two custom steampunk modded videogame systems 5 Steampunk is all the rage these days and a couple of people have shown off their custom steampunk mods this past week on the Internets. First up is this DS Lite case mod by Dtoider steampunk10.&n... Brutal Legend themed Soapbox car wins Red Bull Derby 24 Not too long ago, Dtoider TheBigFeel made a couple of Community Blogs showing off what he and his friends had planned for the Red Bull Soapbox Race that took place over the weekend in Los Angeles... Korsakovia is like the Silent Hill sequel that never was 12 If you haven't played Dear Esther or Conscientious Objector, stop reading this and do so immediately. Not just because these two games by thechineseroom are tremendously interesting experiments i... Warning: This Half-Life 2 mod will make you chuckle 33 In my ongoing quest to find a mod for Half-Life 2 that is simultaneously the dumbest and greatest thing ever (at least for today), I think I can finally give my life's work a rest.Thanks to the b... Arkham Asylum: When custom skins go oh so right 19 Honestly, Batman: Arkham Asylum is an impressive game as it is. The combat is satisfying, the stealth is remarkably fun, and hey, you can't exactly top the Dark Knight, at least not in my book.So... Valve wants to put Left 4 Dead 2 mods on Xbox 360 45 One of the main benefits of playing Valve games on the PC (aside from not getting screwed over on DLC and being free of Microsoft's evil clutches) is the fact that you get access to a ridiculous ... Build your own NES mini arcade cabinet and win at life 13 Well, I wouldn't go as far as to say that you'd win at life, but you'd at least have a pretty cool conversation piece with this table/countertop NES arcade cabinet. All you need is a few parts, t... Xbox Micro makes you wonder why the Xbox was so big (Update) 34 Remember when the Xbox landed? It was the biggest console you'd ever seen. The thing looked like they could build sturdy houses in third world countries out of it. I had always just assumed that ... Play Left 4 Dead ... in Silent Hill? Yep, there's a mod 32 There's probably something wrong with me for saying this, but I really relish the moments that I get to spend in Silent Hill. I look forward to going there. The reason for this is probably becaus... Calling all modders: Zeno Clash's SDK is now available 7 Thanks to the sharp-eyed folks at Shacknews, we have a bit of light news to share with all of the modders, level designers, and curious types in the audience. ACE Team released the software devel... Dogmeat mod for Fallout 3 protects the pooch 12 Ever had trouble keeping your faithful pup Dogmeat alive in Fallout 3? Well, an intrepid mod designer may have the solution for you. Introducing dog armor, which is like horse armor, except free ... SICK FILTH! Cammie gets nude filter in Street Fighter IV 53 It's very en vogue for game bloggers to be disgusted by such things as nude patches and mods, but you know what? Screw it. There are pictures and videos of Cammie from Street Fighter IV, complete... Ever wonder what MechWarrior would look like in CryEngine 2? 21 If there's one thing we could always afford to talk about more, it's mods. Earlier today, I was greeted by an email message regarding a mod for Crysis and Crysis: Warhead called MechWarrior: Livi... These SFIV PC mods are great for all the wrong reasons 32 Street Fighter IV has been available on PC for what, a week now? I figured we would see a handful of mods down the road, but then again what you are about to witness is (hopefully) meant to garne... Wiimote mod controls 15 ton metal arms ... OF DOOM! 7 Two giant 15 ton metal cranes were made by some people and to spice things up a little, they made it so the arms could be controlled with a Wiimote. The metal arms motions are controlled with the... Virtual popstar Hatsune Miku pops up in Left 4 Dead mod 34 If you pay attention to what's going on in the import world, you probably already know that rhythm game fans have been losing their minds over Sega's Project Diva, the recent release starring vir... Fan translation of Culdcept DS rocks my world 12 The Culdcept series rules. If you like board games, card games and screwing over your friends, there are few games which can compare. But, apart from a PS2 release and Culdcept Saga for the Xbox ... Why didn't I think of that?: The NES controller doorbell 16 They say that everything worth inventing has been invented. While cool, this Nintendo Entertainment System controller doorbell fails to disprove such a notion.Although the controller has been rig... Indie Nation: Curse 9 Every week, Destructoid highlights interesting, innovative, or just plain odd independent games for its "Indie Nation" series.After three weeks of heady, combat-free first-person shoote... Raccoon City gets running zombies, courtesy of Left 4 Dead 31 Hey, check it out: a post about Left 4 Dead that doesn't involve the words "boycott," "DLC," or "unfinished."Valve, the much-beleaguered masterminds behind Left 4 De... Indie Nation: Polaris 9 Half-Life 2's Source engine may well be one of the most reliably satisfying pieces of technology in the modern gaming world. It gave us gravity guns, zombie hordes, portal physics -- and now, of ... Atari 2600 and SNES modded into something more useful 11 Well, the Atari mod is useful. Modding an SNES is just pure blasphemy. More on that one in a second. The Atari 2600 converted into an iPod docking station was made by Byron Casebier. He gutted a ... Super Mario Bros. controlled with a theremin 17 The original Super Mario Bros. is a timeless classic that has been hacked to freaking death. Tons of different mods have been created to control Super Mario Bros. without using the original contr... Left 4 Dead modder gets Zoey naked 43 Oh don't be surprised. Well, actually, I am surprised that a nude mod for Zoey took this long. Seriously, we got to see ugly Boomer butt back at the start of the year and we're now just getting n... Indie Nation #64: Conscientious Objector 10 Conscientious Objector is a Doom 3 mod by thechineseroom, the same academic group who created Dear Esther. Despite the fact that Dear Esther couldn't possibly be more stylistically or mechanicall... Game Debate to the Death!Counter-Strike VS World of Warcraft 100 Last week's debate brought us to the end of the PSP odd game debate brackets with two very deserving games in the finals. The votes were a dead tie half way into the tallying, but in the end one ... Wii mod lets you play backups from USB hard drive 60 "My face melted," said the Head Robot in an email where he forwarded along this tip about a Wii mod that allows the storage and booting of Wii game backups via a USB hard drive. And now I'm tryin... Calling all modders: Help keep Left 4 Dead alive 29 Valve finally got around to releasing the Authoring Tools for Left 4 Dead over the weekend, and we've just now gotten around to covering it. The toolset is in beta form currently, but the plan is... Team Fortress 2 meets Super Smash Bros. 64 35 Youtuber AyesDyef took the Super Smash Bros. 64 intro and gave it the Team Fortress 2 spin. Everything about this mashup is made of win. It starts off with Dr. Kleiner as Master Hand flying aroun... DSi shows off its naughty bits with this replacement case 15 You can go out there in your conservative matte blue or black colors, or you could let it all hang out with this clear replacement case from TotalConsole.The folks at PimpMyConsole received a sam... Destructoid Mac Widget version 2.0 [Update] 13 Have you guys been paying attention to the Dtoid UserVoice page? We've been getting a lot of great feedback from it and you should totally be voicing your opinions on it too.A while ago, Jackal27... No, seriously: NES purse mod 20 We come across some pretty strange console mods here on Destructoid. While it seems that most mods are purely a visual thing, some shoot for function or portability. I can only guess that was the... Arcade crazy? Build your own Vewlix style cabinet 17 First off, this DIY option is not for the layperson. Hardcore only, I'd say. But, if after reading this headline you already have your shoes on to rush out to Home Depot, we'd love to see what yo... Cops outraged by Grand Theft Auto mods depicting their cars 22 If there's one thing more controversial than a Grand Theft Auto release, it's Grand Theft Auto mods. While these tweaks and additions to the game are not officially endorsed, they can still cause... Updated Power Glove is so bad 13 I always find it funny how Nintendo has come full circle with a number of their products. They introduced the Power Glove back in 1989 which had very primitive motion controls. Now we have the Wi... Dream Tablet: the Sega Dreamcast Tablet 18 Someone had to do it, right? Oh yeah. I guess no one did, really. But someone did anyway, and here it is: a Dreamcast tablet called the Dream Tablet.So what is the Dream Tablet? It's a Dreamcast ... Gamer mods his PS3, H.R. Giger style 23 I will admit the forward view of this Alien-inspired PS3 case mod looks a little foreign and lumpy, but turn it on its side as you see in the gallery, and pow, any fan of Ridley Scott's sublime h... « NEXT « next - expanded blog view		Save cash!   See "Black Friday" video game deals New on Destructoid.TV play all videos Loading Destructoid Videos Win this! 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