First donation point report delivered, and recent updates to the system

First report available

Towards the end of May, we announced and launched our Donation Point system for mod authors to receive donations directly from Nexus Mods.

While we don't send Donation Points until 3 months after the end of the month (e.g. Donation Points generated in May won't be received by users until the beginning of September) we will provide a report at the start of each month to all opted-in users, for the previous month, that shows and explains the DP you s...

Win a copy of Surviving Mars, The Witcher 2 and more with GOG.com

Our friends over at GOG.com are having their Summer Gaming Sale and with the generous 100 Game Codes they've provided to give away to our community, we're joining in on the fun!

It's a great opportunity to get your hands on a new game to tide you over until the titles announced at E3 are released. We're super excited to be able to give these games to you, but be sure to read the rules below before entering - we'd hate for you to disqualify yourself.

In order to ensure the...

Patreon page for our Donation Points system

In May we announced our Donation Points system for mod authors on Nexus Mods. The premise of the system is (relatively) simple, each month Nexus Mods has committed to donating $6,000 - $10,000 from our own funds towards a donation pool for mod authors to benefit from. If you'd like to read more about the Donation Points system please read our launch news post and our FAQs section.

Today we have launched a Patreon donation page to crowdfund a supplement to our donation pool so that ou...

GOG Summer Sale Now On

GOG's Summer Gaming Sale has begun! Between now and Monday 18th June, you can bag big discounts on a generous range of DRM-free games.

If you've been considering picking up a classic Bethesda game like Morrowind, Fallout: New Vegas or Oblivion you can get them for ~50% off during the sale. Or if you fancy trying something new like Divinity: Original Sin 2 or Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire they're on sale too!

We've curated our list of top games with mod support as well...

May Giveaway #2

May Giveaway #2 Winner: sjatkins
Congratulations and thanks for participating! 
...and if you didn't win; better luck next time

It's time for another giveaway!

For those of you that may have missed the initial announcement; as part our initiative to increase our social media following and presence, we will be running a giveaway twice a month.
Why do we care about our social media presence? 
Why not just run ads on social media? 
You can r...

Donation Points system now live for mod authors on Nexus Mods

Back in December I announced our intention to create and release a system that provided some modest rewards to mod authors on Nexus Mods.

It's taken us a bit longer to implement than we initially anticipated, but I am happy to announce that from today, any mod authors on Nexus Mods will be able to opt their files into our Donation Points system.

The premise of the Donation Points (DP) system is relatively simple on the surface. Each month Nexus Mods will donate a set amou...

May Giveaway #1

May Giveaway #1 Winner: dutem
Congratulations and thanks for participating!
...and if you didn't win; better luck next time

It's time for another giveaway!

For those of you that may have missed the initial announcement; as part our initiative to increase our social media following and presence, we will be running a series of giveaways.
Why do we care about our social media presence? 
Why not just run ads on social media? 
You can read mor...

Invalid email addresses and you

We've made a small change to the site today to inform any users whose emails are "bouncing" that they need to update their email records.

A bounced email is basically an email we've sent you and then received back saying that the email is undeliverable.

Bounced emails are bad for us as they are expensive to deal with on our email delivery platform and ultimately, if you are using the wrong email address or an email address that does not work/exist any more then you will n...

Security update for Nexus Mod Manager

Today we are releasing some security updates for the Nexus Mod Manager to bring us in line with the new EU GDPR rules coming into force next month.

NMM has been "end-of-line" since 2016, which means we no longer provide any official support for the software, but we thought it was prudent to spend the time and money to release this update so our users could continue to use the software's online services while ensuring we're compliant with the new regulations. We also did not want peop...

Vortex Alpha Release

Hello everyone,

For over a year now we've been working on a mod manager to replace the ailing Nexus Mod Manager. The premise was simple, attempt to combine the simplicity of the Nexus Mod Manager with the advanced functionality of Mod Organizer and create something that is accessible to all types of modders. Back in May of 2017 we named this replacement "Vortex".

A couple of weeks ago we did a limited Alpha release of Vortex to 1,000 users, many of whom have been extremel...

February Giveaway #1

I'm going to be completely straight with you, we're currently working on increasing our social media presence for Nexus Mods and have budgeted a small amount each month towards increasing our social media readership. We could certainly put that money straight into purchasing Facebook and Twitter ads, but I much prefer the idea of using that money instead to fund giveaways that benefit our users and that everyone can enter (even if you don't care about or hate social media).

To that e...

Hiring for community management positions

As part of our relocation process to our offices in Exeter, we now have two job openings at Nexus Mods working within our community management team.

This position is based in our offices in Exeter in the UK and you will need a right to work in the UK before you apply.

Here are the details.


The Role
As a community manager, it is your responsibility to interact with and look after the Nexus Mods community and understand the needs and wants of the var...

Limited Vortex alpha release today, full release soon

Hello everyone,

For over a year now we've been working on a mod manager to replace the ailing Nexus Mod Manager. The premise was simple, attempt to combine the simplicity of the Nexus Mod Manager with the advanced functionality of Mod Organizer and create something that is accessible to all types of modders. Back in May of 2017 we named this replacement "Vortex" and we aimed for a January 2018 release date.



With that in mind, the full release of Vortex is alm...

We're Hiring: Vortex developer

June 2018: We're currently not hiring for this position.




Last year we set up our first office for Nexus Mods and began the process of relocating as many of the current staff as possible into the new environment.

As part of this process, we now have a job opening at Nexus Mods working on our Vortex software with Tannin, which is replacing the Nexus Mod Manager.

This position is based in our offices in Exeter in the UK, which I know limits our ...

Year in review and looking forward

A belated Merry Christmas and a happy new year to everybody!

We've been quiet in our news section recently as we've been busily working away on the site redesign and Vortex development, but the new year brings the perfect chance to update you on what happened last year and what we're working on in 2018.


2017 in numbers

We welcomed 1,612,142 new users to Nexus Mods in 2017, or to put it another way, a new member joined Nexus Mods every 20 seconds. We now ...

Mod Author Donation System

While a few of the developers continue to work on the new site design, fixing up bugs, improving page load time performance and responding to useful critiques and suggested improvements to the UI and UX from users, I wanted to take some time out to announce a new feature that a few of our other developers are currently working on that we plan to launch in the first quarter of 2018. A new year's resolution of sorts, if you will.

The new functionality I want to talk about today is...

PC Modding Race Giveaway! We have tons of games and gear to give away from GOG.com, CORSAIR, and MSI!

In celebration of our new site design, we have teamed up with GOG.com, CORSAIR, MSI, and PCMasterRace to share our love for PC gaming worldwide through a massive giveaway! Before we get into the juicy details though, I wanted to take a quick trip down memory lane and look at some of the previous designs we've used at Nexus Mods before reaching this point.

Since its initial founding in 2001, Nexus Mods has been through many incarnations. It all started with Morrowind Chronicles, a fan...

Redesign Launch - Stage 2 in progress

We're currently implementing stage 2 of our redesign soft launch process and as such, you might experience a few oddities and/or get thrown about a bit between the old and new designs as we gradually implement the changes and stress test things.

Stage 2 is moving the nexusmods.com domain over to the new design so by default, users will be on the new design. During this time we're still allowing users to access the old website design via https://old.nexusmods.com.

If durin...

An update on Vortex development

It's time for a Vortex development update!

Since our last news post back in May we have setup a focus group of around 30 individuals who have been given access to an early build alpha of Vortex using a rudimentary design and UX flow. Tannin has been working with these users, taking on their feedback and patching up bugs that have been found over the past couple of months. At this stage, the core functionality is all done and now it's a matter of rounding off any rough ed...

New Nexus Mods design launched

Hello everyone,

The time is almost upon us as we near the official release of our redesign. We're now ready to share the redesign with all of you in the hopes that you can help us in identifying the remaining issues before we officially go live and change the site over.

We're doing a very soft launch of this redesign. In September we provided the mod authors with access to the new site to receive their feedback and bug hunting help and a few weeks ago we provide...