On this week's show we discuss the controversy surrounding Valve and Bethesda's decision to monetize it's vibrant mod community and why they so quickly backpedaled on the idea. And we banged on for so long about it there was barely time to mention anything else, except perhaps a certain BBC Drama currently being made about the creation of GTA... all this and sadly not much more on a notably topical #NOTplaying Podcast!

Valve introduces paid mod support for Skyrim on Steam http://www.pcgamer.com/paid-mods-wont-kill-modding-and-might-make-it-better/

First paid mod to get taken down http://www.pcgamer.com/paid-for-skyrim-mod-removed-in-a-matter-of-hours/

Paid Mod Support removed http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-04-28-bethesda-removes-paid-mods-in-skyrim

Valve clamping down on spamming http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-04-20-you-now-have-to-spend-at-least-usd5-to-access-some-steam-features

2K Australia closing http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-04-16-australian-2k-borderlands-pre-sequel-dev-to-close

Windows 10 to release end of July http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-04-21-windows-10-release-in-july-amd-spills

Daniel Radcliffe to play Sam Houser in BBC GTA V Biopic http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-04-09-daniel-radcliffe-in-talks-to-play-gta-producer-sam-houser

Bill Paxton to play Jack Thompson http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-04-14-bill-paxton-to-play-jack-thompson-in-bbc-gta-drama

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