Downtime today

Hi folks,

Just wanted to drop a quick notice that we're aware that some people have been experiencing down-time on the sites today with error messages saying the sites don't exist. Just wanted to let you know it's not you, it's us. We've been moving servers around recently and reshuffling our name servers and it seems to have gone a bit pear-shaped.

There's nothing you can do (unless you're comfortable with hosts files, which I won't get ...

Bethesda Game Studios moving on to their next adventure

It has been one and a half year since the release of Skyrim, and though there will still be minor updates coming down the road, Bethesda Game Studios have decided that it is time to move on with the main bulk of the team. And for those wondering, in a tweet, Pete Hines confirmed that there will not be any more DLCs for Skyrim at all. We can practically say that Fallout 4 was announced today, unless they have changed their release strategy, and TES VI is in the making (doubtful).

Tha...

BLOG PIECE: supporting modding in totality

It’s been a couple of months since my last blog piece where I updated you all on what we had planned for this year, focusing a lot on stability and a new server clustering setup. We’re now quite close to rolling this out so I’ll talk a little bit more about that and then talk about what we’re working towards.

The past couple of weekends have been a bit tough on the servers partly because we’re continuing to tack on new functionality and partly because traffic is still at a...

That Ogrim!

If you are one of those who are thinking "Bah! The design in ESO is nothing like an Elder Scrolls game should have!", then you might want to reconsider... Just look at that Ogrim!


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And in other (belated) news... have you checked your e-mail lately? The second batch of beta invitations for ESO was sent out yesterday and today (unless today is not yet today, and they still haven't sent them out..! please please please!)

Skyrim Mod Sanctuary 62 : Werewolves II

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Part 2 in my series of videos covering werewolf mods for Skyrim

Thumbnail image for this video is 'Lalatia' courtesy of stormdrooper1.

Download links for reviewed mods:
Werewolf Perks Expanded - Dawnguard
Bloodmoon Rising - Dawnguard Werewolf Overhaul
Werewolf Mastery...

OpenMW v0.22.0 released!

The OpenMW team is incredibly proud to announce the release of version 0.22.0! Release packages for Ubuntu are now available via our Launchpad PPA and for Debian in our Debian PPA. Release packages for other platforms are available on our Download page. This release introduces the long awaited animation feature, many thanks to everyone on the team who has worked to bring this to fruition. Another major feature implemented in this release is support for loading multiple ESM and ESP files. Pre...

Skyrim Mod Sanctuary 62 : Werewolves I - Heart of the Beast and Tales of Lycanthropy

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The next few videos from me will be devoted to making the Skyrim werewolf experience more intense and enjoyable.

Thumbnail image for this video is 'Twin Fangs' courtesy of 0o0Visigoth0o0.

Download links for reviewed mods:
Heart of the Beast - Werewolf Sound and Texture Overhaul
Tales of Lycanthropy - Werewolf Overhaul

Download link for previewed mods:
Gypsy Eyes Caravan...

What PC Gamer wants from Fallout 4 + a bit of speculation

As Bethesda Game Studios finishes up with Skyrim and moves onto the production of its next shiny thing, PC Gamer has a wishlist of things that they want Bethesda to do better for Fallout 4 (as compared with Fallout 3).

There’s some scuttlebutt regarding a new Fallout floating around the internet: the radioactive smoke is curling up from the burning, irradiated embers. Bethesda have been registering names, and the in-game DJ’s voice actor has promised more from him. Could it be? ...

More commenting options for mod authors

An extremely underused feature on the Nexus file pages is the “Discussions” tab, which allows authors and users (provided the author allows it) to create different threads for different parts of conversation to do with the file. When you have a large mod that gets hundreds of new messages a day it can often be difficult to keep up with what’s going on within your single comment topic. Bug reports, feedback, suggestions, troubleshooting and general chit-chat get all mixed up in a big soup o...

Check your e-mail! First wave of ESO beta invitations has been sent out!

Today, Zenimax Online Studios sent out the first wave of Beta invitations, so check your e-mail, and pray that you are luckier than me!

Haven't gotten any e-mail? Do not be discouraged. This wave was a small one, and they have plenty more to send as the tests goes on.

Oh, and be sure to check your spam folders!...

NMM bug fix release and download hacking problems fixed

We’ve released a bug fix edition of NMM, taking us to version 0.44.4. Here’s the change log:

1. New Feature: The ReadMeManager now supports PDF files.
2. Bugfix: ReadMe Manager preventing .txt files from being installed in mod folders. (This fixes the installation of mods like Fores New Idles)
3. Bugfix: Rare crash while deleting a mod in CategoryView.
4. Bugfix: Omod script interpreter.
5. Bugfix: Users were able to set Mods and Install Info as the same ...

Recent site updates and NMM 0.44.3 released

We’ve been knocking out tiny updates and tweaks to the site since we changed the design around a bit a week or so ago. These updates tend to be small enough to not warrant a news post, but when they build up enough I like to smash them all out in a news post in one big list. But before we do that let's get NMM out of the way.

We released NMM 0.44.3 last Friday that contains some more bug fixes and some minor feature changes. Here’s the list:

1. New Feature: NMM ...

Skyrim Mod Sanctuary 61 : Pure Waters

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I often get asked which water mod I am using, and what other graphical mods/settings I use. In this video I attempt to answer those questions.

Thumbnail image for this video is 'A castle in the sky' courtesy of Freddynho.

Download links for reviewed mods:
Pure Waters...

NMM 044.2 fix release

We’ve released version 0.44.2 of NMM today that provides a number of bug fixes and updates to problems caused in the recent 0.44 builds. Here’s the fix and new feature list:

1. New Feature: New “Uninstall all active mods” button in the Tools menu.
2. New Feature: The readme scan is now optional and you can manually perform it by right-clicking on selected mods/categories and choosing the option from the context menu.
3. Bugfix: Category view: category and mod pro...

New Vegas got Mormonism right says Mormon gamer

Fifth-generation Mormon, Skip Cameron, has an article on Kotaku talking about how Fallout New Vegas portrays his faith.

He notes that it was "sympathetic and respectful" instead of the "unflattering and even disrespectful" approach that is seen in other media. He also shows how deep some of the research that Obsidian took was, and provides some interesting information on Mormon NPCs.

While the name Nephi will not likely carry any significance to anyone outside Utah or t...

Skyrim Crash on Startup FIX : Part 1 (Troubleshooting your Load Order)

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One of the most common requests for help I get are those from people who have crashes when they start Skyrim. This is usually caused by a missing master in your load order, so in this video I show you how to find out if that is the case, and which file is the problem.

Download links for reviewed mods:
TES5Edit...

Site design update, file backgrounds and hot file cropping

If you’re reading this from a Nexus site then you’re reading it from our updated design. Before I go into explaining a few of the changes just a quick note that we’ve changed our imagemap, so if some images look out of place or things look like they’re in the wrong place you might want to refresh your browser cache for the site. Easiest way to do this is to press CTRL+F5 (a hard refresh). If that doesn’t fix it then try again. And again. If it’s still broken after that it’s either ...

NMM version 0.44 released, new file servers and site updates

We’ve snuck the latest version of the Nexus Mod Manager out the door late this evening pushing us into version 0.44. This latest version contains a number of bug fixes along with a new ReadMe management feature and the new improved controls for the “old view” NMM mode, the same that the category view uses.

The ReadMe manager parses all your mods for text, rtf, doc and HTML documents and provides them as a list for you to open straight from NMM by right-clicking a mod and highl...

Skyrim 1.9 Beta Update now on Steam

Update 1.9 Beta is now available on Steam, and it features a ton of bug fixes, along with a "Legendary" difficulty setting!

How to opt-in:

Within your Steam Library, right click on The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
Select Properties
Select the Beta tab and opt in using the drop box


NEW FEATURES

Legendary difficulty setting
Legendary Skills – Skills of 100 can be made Legendary. This will reset the skill to 15, retu...

Skyrim Mod Sanctuary 60 : Beast Skeleton, Realistic Needs and Diseases, Wrath of Nature

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A mix of mods are covered in this video from mods that enhance immersion to those that add lots of fun new ways to destroy your enemies.

Thumbnail image for this video is 'Rumble in the Keep' courtesy of xsbullx.

Download links for reviewed mods:
Beast Skeletons
Realistic Needs and Diseases
Wrath of Nature - The Path of the Druid...