To enable mods within the Xbox app, you’ll first need to download the beta version of the Xbox app.
How to enable PC game mods via the Xbox app for Windows “Today’s update makes it easier to find and access the game folder for those games so that users can apply the mods of their choice.”
“Prior to today gamers could use mods in the Xbox (Beta) App, for those games where the developer has chosen to support them,” a spokesperson for Microsoft said in an email. Microsoft has previously allowed mods via the Xbox app, though the company said that they may not have been too accessible. Microsoft has said nothing about allowing mods for games on its actual Xbox console, which has traditionally been locked down to prevent unauthorized code from running on it. In some rarer cases, modders have drastically redesigned the game to create an entirely new one, such as taking Valve Software’s game, Half-Life, and creating Counter-Strike from it.īe aware, too, that the Xbox app for the PC is just Microsoft’s name for its overarching games app on Windows. In each case, a third-party programmer can do anything from redesigning a particular art asset-say, changing a game’s car from a Ford to a Tesla-to more extreme measures, such as giving the car the ability to fly. As many PC gamers know already, modding enables changes ranging from the simple to the profound.