PC Gamer Mod of the Year

PC Gamer US has announced Nehrim: At Fate's Edge as best Mod of the Year! It was also mentioned that it was contender for best RPG as well! Great job for the modders of Nehrim and congratulations! PC Gamer source...

PC Gamer RPG Game of the Year

PC Gamer US has announced Fallout: New Vegas as best Roleplaying Game of the Year! It was also mentioned that the PC platform is where it truly shines with mods unlocking its full potential. Great job for the modders of the New Vegas modding community! PC Gamer source...

Nexus wiki

Recently I've been working in the background on getting an acceptable Wiki in place for use on the sites. As much as the article database integrates in to the sites they're limited in their functionality, especially when it comes to articles that are relevant to more than one site (such as help with the Nexus sites, or certain modding techniques applicable to the Elder Scrolls and Fallout series). The Nexus Wiki is a simple Wiki set up to replace the article database on the sites and provide ...

TES V to be on a new engine

As many will know the Gamebryo formally used by Oblivion and Fallout 3 has been dying a slow death of late. On November 10th 2010 the assets of the engine were put up for sale. Such events have raised questions about Bethesda's choice of engine for TES V and the modability of any new engine that Bethesda might choose to use. The most likely engine candidate was thought to be the id Tech5 engine that is currently being used for the upcoming RAGE game by id as well as the next Doom game. With Z...

Oh my giddy aunt...TES V: Skyrim announced

Oh yes, it's been announced. Those of us who dared to believe already knew the location (because they registered trademarks in the name of Skyrim yonks ago). We already knew it was in development, but we didn't know the release date. It's coming, and it's coming within a year. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim was announced by Todd Howard last night at the Spike TV VGA awards to many cheers, a few tears, and a clapping audience. The teaser trailer can be seen on the official site. Do we k...

Amnesia night tonight

Just a reminder for anyone who hasn't noticed the latest site blog that I will be hosting an Amnesia: The Dark Descent demo night tonight. Midnight GMT, 7pm EST time. The premise is simple; people interested can download the demo, download Mumble; the free to download/use VoIP software and log on to my Mumble server and we’ll all play through the demo at our own pace individually. Everyone sets their Mumble to "all talk" so that we can hear everything going on; every person that jumps, ever...

Nexus hacking

It is with both annoyance and regret that I have to announce that I discovered today that the Nexus sites had been compromised through a hole in the site's code. The compromise was serious giving the script kiddy access to all the MySQL databases, including the database for the forums that contains user information such as your email address. I have had reports today from people who have told me that "one-time" accounts used to sign up to the site have been receiving spam. It is my belief tha...

New advanced search filter to sort by usable assets

I have added a new filter to the Advanced Search on the site to allow you to search by files that have their permissions set to "Yes, but you must credit me for all the files you use" or "Yes, no credit or permission needed" under "Users can use assets contained in my files in their own files". This should allow mod authors who are looking for usable assets to quickly find files that have been made open for others to use under certain conditions....

Bug fix category

There is now a bug fix category available for mod authors to upload their files to. I started moving over some fixes already on the site to the new category but my time has been cut short....

Site statistics

I've been working recently on tallying up all the various "interesting" statistics this site records in to one grand total to get an overall view of the popularity of the sites within the gaming community. I thought it would nice to see just how big this community is and how popular it is to mod the games. I was hoping to use sales figures from the various Bethesda games to come up with a ball-park figure of PC owners who have downloaded and modded their games through the Nexus. Unfortunately...

Multipart upload functionality for large file authors

One of the issues with the Nexus sites has always been the 300mb file size limit for files. It meant that authors with files larger than this amount would have to split the files up in to multiple parts before they could be uploaded to the site. To make matters worse the part names were renamed by the file upload process that screwed up the multipart functionality meaning the end user would have to manually rename the files once they were all downloaded. There was no way of grouping up the parts...

Seattle and Dallas file server down-time

The Seattle and Dallas file servers will be taken down in-turn over the next couple of days while the hard drives are re-jiggled (that's the technical term for it) to double the capacity on the servers. In non-technical terms the RAID on the servers is just being changed from RAID 1 to RAID 0. Redundancy is already provided by the five file servers the sites have so best to make use of all available space. The final 10% of the file server space was taken up quicker than I expected by New Veg...

Washington file server added

There is now a fourth file server available to download from located in Washington DC, USA. This brings the overall network connectivity for the Nexus sites up to some 3.2 Gbits. Having trouble downloading from the other file servers? Try the Washington one and spread out the load a bit. The Seattle and Dallas file servers will be taken off-line at separate times in the course of next week, for 24 hours at a time, while the hard-drive space is upgraded to accommodate the increasing number of ...

New distribution permissions options for all files

The recent launch of New Vegas and the gold rush style race there's been to get a lot of the great mods from Fallout 3 converted over to New Vegas has raised the growing concern the staff have had recently regarding the use and/or redistribution of other author's work by members of this community and how difficult it is to ascertain a mod author's wishes. Before I go on I'd like to remind everyone that converting other author's work from Fallout 3 to New Vegas is strictly forbidden right now ...

Uploading converted Fallout 3 mods without permission

I would like to remind all users that you cannot convert and reupload mods that you did not create yourself from Fallout 3 for New Vegas without permission from the original author of the Fallout 3 modification. This is in line with our rules on using other people's work without permission. Most authors provide information on how they would like their files to be used and distributed in their ReadMe's or file descriptions. If the author has not provided this information then you must request ...

New Vegas released in Europe

Fallout New Vegas has now been released in the UK and the rest of Europe and this rounds up the launch of New Vegas to the masses. New Vegas Nexus is already up to 212 files as of writing, which is a great start, and adding the European's to the mix should increase the rate at which this number increases. Demand for mods is particularly high with some 100,000 individuals visiting the site yesterday looking at 1.17 million pages on the site. This figure is already on course to be smashed to...

Do not upload the GECK or preorder DLC

Please do not upload the GECK or any of the preorder content for New Vegas Nexus to the site. They are not your property and they are not Nexus property; they belong to Bethesda and Obsidian accordingly. As such you should treat these files in the same way you would be expected to treat anyone elses work on this site. No permission? No upload. Continue to upload these files at your own peril. On a side note resident staff member Vagrant0 has released a mod titled Preorder Alternative that ...

New Vegas, meet mods, mods, meet New Vegas

The Fallout: New Vegas GECK has now been released on the Bethesda website that officially launches the modding scene for New Vegas. Irrespective of the similarities of the New Vegas GECK with the Fallout 3 GECK a big thank you is in order to Bethesda and Obsidian for releasing the GECK on launch day for everyone to use. Remember modding using an official SDK from the developers isn't a right, it's a priviledge handed down from the developers. They don't have to do it and they take time out of th...

New Vegas Nexus launched

It is with great pleasure that I announce the launch of the 4th Nexus site on the internet; New Vegas Nexus (NVNexus). NVNexus will be covering the files for Fallout: New Vegas that is being developed by Obsidian and published by Bethesda. New Vegas is due to launch on Steam and through video game retailers on the 19th of October 2010 in the US and select other countries and the 22nd in the UK and other countries. Not bought the game yet? Consider buying the game through our affiliate store t...

Email validation issues

It has come to my attention that some people trying to register new accounts on the site aren't receiving the email the forums automatically send out so you can validate your email address. This is obviously an issue as you need to validate your email address in order to use most of the site and forums. I have several test accounts across many different ISPs and ISPs such as Google Mail and Hotmail don't seem to have any issues, some others do, such as GMX. I've done lots of searches across m...