Private forum for recognised mod authors

Something that a few mod authors have brought up recently is that a lot of the staff team here at the Nexus aren't as active within the modding community as we have been in the past. We've been moderating as per normal and dealing with all the reports that come our way but a few folks have felt saddened that some of us haven't been around doing other stuff within the community as much as in the past. It's true many of us have been swallowed up in various real-life and work issues recently. Hopef...

Interview with Tomerk, April's FotM winner (Liquid Water)

Tomerk's Liquid Water won April's File of the Month. There is an issue with the TESNexus voting which is currently preventing April's votes from being finalized, but Liquid Water was (and still is) the top vote earner with a current total of 58 votes. Update: That issue is now fixed; Liquid Water ended up with 59 votes. Continuing with the monthly feature, Tomerk has responded to our interview questions. You can read his responses below. Q: What was your inspiration for creating Liqu...

Bethesda begins first Skyrim fan interview

Bethesda has launched the first Skyrim "fan interview" in which fans submit questions for Todd Howard and other Bethesda employees to answer. Questions can be submitted on the BethBlog, the "Elder Council" (Bethesda's Facebook page for the Elder Scrolls), or the official Bethesda forums. Questions will be answered "in a few weeks" but no specific date has been announced yet. As an example for those wondering what type of questions get answered, you can read the fan interview from Oblivion....

Top list filters by Dragon Age: Origins and Dragon Age 2

Hello fellow Dragon Age modders and mod users. As you know I have refrained from releasing a separate site for Dragon Age 2 until BioWare release a tool set for the game. If they release a tool set for the game. This however hasn't stopped many modders from working on mods anyway as there are currently more than 500 available for download right now. In an effort to help reduce the confusion between the two games being on one site I've modified the Top 100 scripts on the site. There are now fi...

More DLC announced, Honest Hearts coming May 17

Bethesda has provided more information about the next three DLC: Honest Hearts, Old World Blues, and Lonesome Road. Honest Hearts will be released on May 17th. Honest Hearts sends you on an expedition to Zion National Park in Utah, but your caravan is of course ambushed along the way. Later the Courier becomes involved in a war between a "New Canaanite missionary" and the Burned Man. The first official screenshot from Honest Hearts has also been released along with the announcement. Next, ...

Gameswelt Interview with Todd Howard

Recently, an interview at Gameswelt (I believe its German) with Todd Howard has him talking all about the Elder Scrolls. Todd says in the first twenty seconds that the feeling they were going for with Morrowind was that you were a stranger in a strange land. For Skyrim, he says that feels wrong. After Morrowind, they wanted to go back to a more “classic fantasy game” for Oblivion. He then goes on to explain how between Arena to Oblivion, Morrowind is the odd one out; the alien in the series....

Lay-offs at Obsidian

VG247 reports that several (former) Obsidian employees have been tweeting about their sacking. According to a tweet from Akil Hooper a producer and designer who has been at the firm 11 years survived seven different round of lay-offs, but sadly not the eighth: 11 years, nearly a dozen shipped titles, Designer, Lead, Producer. 1 canceled game, survived 7 layoffs, 8th got me. Not a bad track record. According to the forum post on Obsidian which gathered all these tweets, reports that it...

New interview with Todd Howard

A reporter for Machinima, Rob Smith, got a first look at Skyrim earler this week. He interviewed Todd Howard and got a few answers on what it means to be a Dragonborn, technology, the world, and more. The interview can be found here. ...

New Vegas patch 1.3 released, G.E.C.K. temporarily broken

Fallout: New Vegas has been updated to version 1.3. The patch includes the previously described balance changes plus unexplained "optimizations and stability improvements." Edit: As mentioned in the comments, the patch will prevent the G.E.C.K. from functioning (cannot create, load, or edit mods). We will have to wait for an updated G.E.C.K. to be made available. Update: The G.E.C.K. can now be downloaded from Bethesda's site....

Small amount of Skyrim footage leaked

One of the reporters who was invited to the BFG 2011 press event captured several seconds of Skyrim footage. It can be found here. A slowed down version has also been uploaded to Youtube. The footage shows the player approaching an alter in a frozen location. As he approaches the alter the lid of a tomb blows off (what emerges is probably a Draugh priest mentioned in the print previews)....

Honest Hearts promotional banner found

AVeryNaughtyMan from The Vault has news about a promotional piece for the next New Vegas DLC Honest Hearts available from the Xbox Live Marketplace.



A promotional image for the upcoming Honest Hearts DLC has been found on Xbox live. Users can find the image by searching for Fallout: New Vegas on the Game Marketplace, and then selecting Fallout: New Vegas Teaser Trailer (HD). The picture in the top-right corner will change to a banner showing the Honest Hearts logo and ...

New demonstration relayed to players via gaming press

Bethesda Softworks held something called a BFG 2011 press event where they showed off a Skyrim demo to the gaming press. This resulted in a heap of previews being released by a number of gaming sites. A recording of the demo has not been released for viewing by the general public to make up their own minds. IGN gives a general overview of new and already known features. You'll still get to pick from one of 10 fantasy races, customize your physical appearance, and select a gender, but after...

Patch coming Monday for PC, balance changes revealed

Jason Bergman (Bethesda Senior Producer for F:NV) has again revealed more information about the next Fallout: New Vegas patch. In addition to announcing that the patch will be coming for the PC version on Monday (consoles later), Bergman posted a list of the balance changes which will be included. Edit: To clarify, these balance changes are one part of the patch which will also include stability and optimization improvements, bug fixes, etc. Guns: Automatic Guns - SMGs, the Assault ...

Bethesda would like to see mods happen for consoles

A news article started at Edge that has now made the rounds across the internet has brought to light Bethesda's wish to see mods for Skyrim made available for the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions of the game. Naturally, Todd Howard's words have been taken out of context and stretched beyond recognition on many forums, but here's the jist of it: It works on all the consoles. As far as the 360 and PS3, right now there’s not an avenue for us to make that available, but we’d very much like to fi...

Skyrim gameplay preview at G4TV

G4TV has rewritten the rules of what constitutes a gameplay preview. Traditionally gameplay previews contained video footage the game illustrating how features would actually work in game. G4TV has altered this to mean an interview with Todd Howard where he discusses some details of Skyrim spliced with footage from the official trailer. Todd Howard and Adam Sessler discuss the background and storyline of skyrim, changes to the statistics and attributes system, and dragons. Please note that...

Tag filters in categories

I have modified the individual category pages to add a search bar and an optional tag filtering system for the specific category you're browsing. Many people often ask us why we don't add more refined categories to the site as they are struggling to find specifics (like armour for males in the armour category, or building mods with quests, etc.) and the answer is generally that we don't want hundreds of categories and sub-categories cluttering the site. Using the tagging system you can really...

DDoS attack on sites [Updated]

Around about 10am today a petulant child who got banned from the site came back with a warning, demanding they be unbanned or they would DDoS the sites until they got their way. Naturally this warning was ignored, as would anyone who made such threats. A little while later the DDoS attacks started and the sites have been up and down a bit. We're no strangers to DDoS attacks, we've had plenty in this site's history so please bare with us while we rectify the actions of a brat. I will say th...

Dragon Age modding competition update

200,000 new members have registered since my initial modding competition announcement and there's a further 300,000 to go until the competition deadline ends. In my announcement I mentioned that the Dragon Age competition might be moved over to Dragon Age 2 depending on the availability of a toolset. As no toolset has been released for Dragon Age 2 and no toolset fix has been made available so that the original toolset can work with Dragon Age 2 I can officially confirm that the Dragon Age mo...

OBSE V20 is the stable version now.

If you haven't checked the OBSE page yet, then here's an update. The current stable version of OBSE is now v20. So if you're still using v19 because you didn't want to use the beta versions of v20, then go on over to the page and grab it! ...

Interview with Toasty Fresh

Since Quazzy (Winner of March's FOTM vote) hasn't been active for a while, we have decided to go on to second place; OMFG - Ongoing Modification of Firearms and Guns, by Toasty Fresh. We'd like to thank Toasty Fresh for accepting our request of an interview. You may read the interview below, and I hope you enjoy the read! Q. What was your inspiration for creating this mod? A. OMFG was just a place that I could offload some of my practice work in the forms of mods the community could enjoy....