{"id":90562,"date":"2026-10-02T16:17:52","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T20:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=90562"},"modified":"2026-10-02T18:37:57","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T22:37:57","slug":"vibe-coded-mashup-mods-have-taken-over-x-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=90562","title":{"rendered":"Vibe-Coded Mashup Mods Have Taken Over X This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p>I have spent the last three days scrolling through some of the most insane mod videos I&#8217;ve ever seen. Modders are taking games that have been decompiled with Claude, and mashing them up with other games. As the week has gone on, there have only been more clips of these mods pouring out on X\/Twitter. <\/p>\n<p>One person created a<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/p_e_cooper\/status\/2105397229725032625?s=46\"> mashup of World of Warcraft and Call of Duty: World at War<\/a>; another combined<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/cydonix\/status\/2105177318968955044?s=20\"> Escape From Tarkov with Skyrim<\/a>. There\u2019s even one that takes Insomniac\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/xLuki1_\/status\/2105832052360966289\">Spider-Man and combines it with Batman Arkham City<\/a>, where the player is able to swing around Batman\u2019s turf. <\/p>\n<p>These mods are everywhere online right now, though they thankfully haven\u2019t filtered into modding websites like Nexus Mods yet. But, with the sheer volume of these mods and with how accessible Opus 5.5 is, it feels like it\u2019s only a matter of time before the gates are fully torn down. And if that happens, it could change the face of the modding scene entirely.<\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"poll\" data-id=\"96f99b14-001b-4961-8709-49dbc18c8375\">Why Now?<\/p>\n<p>Claude Opus 5.5 launched last week, promising cheaper tokens and more efficient code work. I&#8217;m sure that Anthropic meant for it to be used by professionals, but gamers have used it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have spent the last three days scrolling through some of the most insane mod videos I&#8217;ve ever seen. Modders are taking games that have been decompiled with Claude, and mashing them up with other games. As the week has gone on, there have only been more clips of these mods pouring out on X\/Twitter&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":90564,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90562"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90562"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90566,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90562\/revisions\/90566"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/90564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}