Modders create cool things in Overwolf's community.
Modders create cool things in Overwolf's community.
Categories

Overwolf will pay out $29M to mod and app creators in 2021

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
  • Updated
  • 4 min

Overwolf rebranded itself this week as a guild of in-game creators. And it is announcing today that it expects to pay out $29 million to players who create items to buy and sell in video games.

The Tel Aviv company targets its services, such as its CurseForge Core user-generated content platform, at modders and in-game app creators. And it is on a path to triple its payouts to those third-party creators this year, said Overwolf CEO Uri Marchand in an interview with GamesBeat.

Unlock premium content and VIP community perks with GB M A X! Join now to enjoy our free and premium perks. 

Join now →

Sign in to your account.

Written by

Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.