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Mods: "Lifeblood of Gaming Industry"?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the thats-hi-i-figure-it dept.

Jadsky writes "Salon is is running a story about how modifications to games are now the lifeblood of the industry. It cites "Day of Defeat", an add-on to Half-Life, and proceeds to give an analysis of the history and current work on game mods. It also mentions Castle Smurfenstein and the Doom Construction Kit, which many of us played with before there was z-space."

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  1. Kinda obvious by kraf · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Isn't the most popular multiplayer game (Counter-Strike) a mod ?

    At the of the end of day everything is a mod of something, there are _very_ few original ideas in gaming.