First videogame to support user-made mods on a console
- Who
- Unreal Tournament 3
- What
- First
- Where
- Not Applicable
- When
- December 2007
First released in December 2007, the PS3 version of Unreal Tournament 3 (Midway) was the first console game that allows users to upload and download community-made mods to the console's HDD or external media. Modding has become a huge part of PC gaming since the early 2000s, enabling creative users to alter gameplay, design new maps, create character skins, even build whole new games. However, it's very rarely supported for consoles. On 31 May 2016, Bethesda also famously bucked that trend by allowing Xbox One players of Fallout 4 (2015) to import mods from the PC game, now a major feature of the post-apocalyptic RPG.
Mod support for Fallout 4 was also incoming for the PS4.