Site History
The story of UT3MOD.COM
2007
The Beginning
UT3MOD.COM was created by Herby on Blogger as a hub for Unreal Tournament 3 mods on PS3. At the time, PS3 was the only console that supported user-created mods for UT3. The site let players download mods directly from the PS3's built-in web browser — a feature that was revolutionary for console gaming.
2008
Featured In-Game
Epic Games featured UT3MOD.COM inside the game itself. The site appeared in the in-game browser, making it one of the first community mod sites to receive official recognition from a game developer on console. The site was also covered by N4G and built a community on Reddit and Facebook.
2008–2012
The Golden Era
At its peak, UT3MOD.COM hosted 100+ mods across 16 categories including deathmatch maps, CTF maps, characters, mutators, weapons, and more. All mod descriptions were hand-written by Herby and a friend, ensuring quality curation. Every mod was personally tested before being published.
2012–2020
The Quiet Years
As the UT3 community naturally evolved, the site's activity decreased. The original file hosting service (fileden.com) shut down, breaking download links. The Blogger site remained online but increasingly difficult to maintain.
2020
Going Offline
The original Blogger site went offline. But the community had been preserving the mod files. Internet Archive users uploaded two collections totaling 961+ mod files and 40 GB of data.
2026
Resurrected
UT3MOD.COM is reborn as a modern static site built with Astro, hosted on Cloudflare Pages, with mod files served from Cloudflare R2. The site preserves all original mod descriptions exactly as they were written, recovers 961+ mod files from the Internet Archive, and still works on the PS3 browser — just like the old days, but faster.