The state of Dark Souls modding

Hi everyone, I'm Durante (the guy who made DSfix), and this is my first Nexus news post. I'd like to provide some information on what is possible with Dark Souls modding at the moment, and what might be possible in the future.

Currently, there are two ways to mod Dark Souls. On the one hand there are program modifications such as DSMfix, the 60 FPS mod and my own DSfix, which work by .dll wrapping. On the other hand, since a few versions DSfix supports overriding any of the...

Announcing Dark Souls Nexus Launched

Hot on the tails of our new Grimrock Nexus site we’ve got another special treat for you. It’s my pleasure to announce the launch of Dark Souls Nexus for Dark Souls: Prepare to Die edition.

For those living under a rock for the past few months I’ll break it down a little. Dark Souls was (originally) a dark-fantasy console-only RPG that is well known for being quite difficult but particularly rewarding for players. It was so popular that the PC gaming community petitioned for a ...

Announcing Dark Souls Nexus Launched

Hot on the tails of our new Grimrock Nexus site we’ve got another special treat for you. It’s my pleasure to announce the launch of Dark Souls Nexus for Dark Souls: Prepare to Die edition.

For those living under a rock for the past few months I’ll break it down a little. Dark Souls was (originally) a dark-fantasy console-only RPG that is well known for being quite difficult but particularly rewarding for players. It was so popular that the PC gaming community petitioned for a ...

Announcing Dark Souls Nexus Launched

Hot on the tails of our new Grimrock Nexus site we’ve got another special treat for you. It’s my pleasure to announce the launch of Dark Souls Nexus for Dark Souls: Prepare to Die edition.

For those living under a rock for the past few months I’ll break it down a little. Dark Souls was (originally) a dark-fantasy console-only RPG that is well known for being quite difficult but particularly rewarding for players. It was so popular that the PC gaming community petitioned for a ...

Redkit beta sign-ups closing soon!

CDProjekt recently announced their plans to release an SDK for The Witcher 2 and they've asked for help from as many modders as possible to make this the best kit possible. They're planning to do a closed beta to begin with before releasing the kit to the general public. As a modder, this would be your chance to have your say in the creation of the kit as well as get a great head-start on any of your modding plans. Here's the blurb from the official site:

We are still ac...

Skyrim Mod Sanctuary 46 : skyBirds, Birds and Flocks, Player Headtracking and Skill menu retexture

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A video focusing mostly on mods that make the world of Skyrim and the player feel a little more alive.

Thumbnail image for this video is 'Death from above' courtesy of Valtyr989.

Download Links:
skyBirds - Airborne Perching Birds
Birds of Skyrim
Birds and Flocks
Player Headtracking
Brawl Bugs Patch - Plugins - Modder Resource
Skill Interface Retexture...

IGN makes controversial top 100 \"greatest\" RPG list

IGN proves that "greatest" is entirely subjective with their newest list of "100
Greatest RPGs of All Time".

Skyrim being the newest and flashiest takes out the highest position among the games covered by the Nexus sites at 7th Place.

How easy it was to spend an afternoon, a weekend, a month, in the world of Skyrim. Like its Elder Scrolls predecessors, Skyrim contained a massive land to explore -- a land teeming with quests, characters, and treasure. Considering ...

Sale on NWN Diamond on GOG this week

From the 14th to the 21st, GOG.com is running a "Diamonds of D&D promotion of what looks like all of their D&D games, including Neverwinter Nights (Diamond edition) for up to 65% off.

Also included in the sale are Baldur's Gate 1 & 2, Planescape: Torment, Icewind Dale 1 & 2, and The Temple of Elemental Evil, all great games.

Where to buy Neverwinter Nights 2 is a frequently asked question lately, since the Hasbro/Atari dispute seems to have resulted in the game bein...

First person combat in Skyrim deconstructed

The California Literary Review has an analysis on the use of camera angles in video games and how they affect how you play. It examines the differences in first person and third person camera angles in Skyrim and Dark Souls respectively. It assesses how the camera angle affects how you play, with a particular emphasis on combat between the two games.

The interesting thing about the first person perspective though, is that as it was used over and over (again primarily by Western deve...

Setting of Fallout 4 - Why the Wild West was fun

The California Literature Review has an article on why Boston should not be chosen as the location for Fallout 4, and why Fallout 3 didn't fit the "Western" style setting of Fallout as well as Fallout New Vegas did.

Part of the article is below:

Sure, on the surface Fallout seems like sci-fi and is thus defined by its unique technology. Technology derived from the McCarthy-era fifties, a time of atomic science that barely understood the effects of radiation. Of comp...

Announcing Legends of Grimrock Nexus

It is with great pleasure that I announce the launch of the newest Nexus website, Legends of Grimrock Nexus, through my proxy, Axel.

Legends of Grimrock is a great throwback to the era of Dungeon Master style games, where you control a party of up to four characters and delve into the mysteries and puzzles of dungeons. For those of you who aren’t aware of Legends of Grimrock, here’s some of the blurb from the official site:

“Legend of Grimrock is a dungeon crawlin...

A potential bug identified in Hearthfire

Kotaku has the story about a possible bug/feature in the Hearthfire.

After you’ve built an entryway and a main hall for your manor, you can start selecting optional rooms like a library or kitchen. Each set of rooms is attached to a wing of the house — you can only build bedrooms in the west wing, for example — but you can only start planning out one room per wing at a time.

This is where the problems start. If you pick a plan from the west wing, start building pa...

Heap of modder interviews at TESAlliance

TES Alliance, an Elder Scrolls games modding community website, has a whole heap of interviews (18 to be specific) with Morrowind, Oblivion, and Skyrim modders. They have been compiled over the past two years. There are many well known names among the community in the list.

The interviews cover all aspects of modding, gaming, construction ket, personal life, etc. Have a read if you have a spare hour or two.

Nernie
InsanitySorrow
WillieSea
Reneer
...

Retrospective Interview with Tim Cain (Fallout Developer) at RPGCodex

The prestigious RPG Codex has an interview with Tim Cain, former staff member of Interplay and one of the primary developers for the original Fallout. The interview covers Tim's game developement career and thoughts on RPG game design and change in the industry.

After leaving Interplay Tim moved to help start up Troika Games where he helped develop other RPG gems such as Arcanum and Temple of Elemental Evil. After Troika folded in 2005 Tim went on to Carbine Studios, and startin...

Skyrim Workshop - 10,000th mod

The Bethblog brings the news that the Steam Workshop for Skyrim has had its 10,000th mod uploaded. Steam Workshop conducted an interview with the modder joedamarsio, for whom the mod was his first mod.

This past week the Skyrim Workshop reached another milestone – it’s 10,000th mod. The mod, Shannara Weapon Set from joedamarsio, with an interview from the Skyrim Creation Kit (Public) Steam Group. Here’s an snippet…

Any advice you would offer to anyone playing Sk...

Skyrim Mod Sanctuary 45 : Dwarven Dwemer Power Armor and Exoskeleton

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A video for the Power Armor enthusiasts out there.

Thumbnail image for this video is 'Orc engineer' courtesy of Gumak27.

Download Links:
Dwarven Dwemer Power Armor
Space Wiking Dwemer Exoskeleton...

Singer Malukah does it again

Malukah, internet famous for singing beautiful versions of "The Dragonborn Comes", "Age of Aggression" etc, has produced her own take on another Skyrim song - Tale of the Tongues. Tale of the Tongues tells the story of the original champions of Skyrim who initially vanquished the dragons.

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Much better than Bieber.

Check out the video and more at Malukah's youtube page.



Lyrics
Alduin's wings, they did darke...

Unsubstantiated rumours place Fallout 4 in Boston, Massachusetts

A user on popular internet sharing site Reddit has posted claims that Bethesda has been researching Boston for the development of Fallout 4.

The rumors are true, Fallout 4 will take place in Boston. In case you haven't heard, Bethesda has recently been scoping out and researching Boston. They also have a strong connection to MIT. I may or may not be an MIT employee. But that's really all I can say for fear of losing my job.

I am telling you it will take place in...

11th birthday, 1 million NMM unique downloads, and a download overhaul

We've passed a few milestones over the past couple of weeks so I thought that now would be a great time to announce them along with a belated birthday present for the sites.

August marked the 11th birthday of the Nexus sites in its varying forms. From Morrowind Chronicles, to Morrowind Source, TESSource and Skyrim Nexus and everything in between these sites have been up and running for over 11 years now. I've said it before and I'll say it again; the principle goal when ...

Golden Dragon Award announcements from the Academy of Modding Excellence

Greetings to all fans of the Neverwinter Nights game series! Over the past few years, the Academy for Modding Excellence has been working to bring recognition to great mods for both Neverwinter Nights and Neverwinter Nights 2 with the Golden Dragon Awards. See more about the AME at the end of this article, especially if you'd be interested in helping out with evaluating and nominating mods that deserve a look!

Following are the announcements for the latest award results ...