Videogamemods

Not all people will be familiar with the word 'mod'. But you can bet, each and every video game freak will be familiar with the word, especially with sites dedicated to sell my video game mods. To give a brief introduction about mods- short for Modification, it is essentially a modification to evade the built in restrictions in computers or video game consoles. This is done by exploiting existing interfaces or my manipulating the systems internal software.

These are capable of circumventing host system properties like copy protection, digital rights management, region coding etc so that it becomes possible to run copied games, unlicensed-third party soft ware's etc.

Video game mods were first introduced with Play Stations developed by Sony computer Entertainment. Though its function was limited to the use of imported and copied game media at that time, nowadays video game mods are widely available for almost every Pc in different variations.

One might wonder whether the usage of mod chips is a legal affair or not. Because of the wide range of applications of video game mods, some laws can be bent and there are some other laws which allow specific functions of video game mods.