New NMM version and site fixes

We’ve officially designated this week “fix the sites and make them work properly week” among the Nexus developers. We’ve not been happy with the status of either NMM or the Nexus recently, and we know you haven't been either, but thankfully you guys are pretty understanding, which means we've been able to get on with fixing it without worrying about a full-blown riot.

The first step in fixing the problem (past knowing there’s a problem) is finding out what the prob...

An introduction to The Elder Scrolls Online

Not quite sold on The Elder Scrolls Online? Unsure if you are going to buy it or not? Well, this video might help you decide one way or the other. And this can not be stressed enough: ESO is NOT developed by Bethesda Game Studios, but by Zenimax Online Studios.

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The first video of The Elder Scrolls Online—a documentary-style introduction to the game, presented by members of The Elder Scrolls Online Development Team. This video covers the basics of ESO, incl...

Mod of the Month interview with Xaltar

This is the second in a series of interviews with past Mod of the Month winners here on the Nexus, which should come out weekly until we've caught up with all of the past winners. These will be posted in order of their completion.

This interview is with Xaltar, for the mod NWN2 Facelift Pack, a high quality head replacer for many of the races in NWN2, both male and female. Xaltar has produced mods for numerous games, including both Neverwinter Nights games, Vampire the Masquera...

Dragonborn Trailer

Earlier today, the trailer for the new Skyrim DLC was released on YouTube. I won't bore you with the details, take a look for yourself instead:

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The DLC is about the first Dragonborn, a dragon priest who devoured dragons, and who ruled Solstheim back in the days - and now he seeks to return. So, what can we expect to see in this DLC? Well, there are a few things:

The island of Solstheim, dragon riding, new creatures (Riekling, Scrib, N...

New Skyrim DLC announcement imminent

The Bethblog has a wall paper of what looks like a guy in a Dragon Priest mask. The blog post says that a trailer will be released "Monday", meaning that it should be released in a few hours.

A post on the Bethesda forums suggests that the DLC will be called Dragonborn and will be set on the island of Solstheim.

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The main locations you will be able to visit are Raven Rock, Miraak T...

Current issues with site performance and downloads

We are aware of the issues currently occurring with some Nexus sites being slow and downloads being hard to start and are working hard to fix them. You do not need to file bug reports for these issues as we are well aware of them and just as frustrated as you are with it.

If you are a Premium Member we will look to add on some extra free days to all current memberships once we've got a fix rolled out....

TES5EDIT : Cleaning your master files

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In this video I try to help mod users the basics behind cleaning the official Bethesda master files to remove dirty edits and deleted references. I hope it helps.

Download and documentation links
TES5Edit.

TES5Edit Cleaning Guide - TES5Edit
Official Forum Thread...

We\'re hiring: .NET/C# Developer

It’s been almost a year (15th November 2011) since we announced the open beta of the Nexus Mod Manager. Since then the software has been installed on over 1.1 million PCs and counting. Back in March we hired on our first full-time programmer to keep NMM updated and improve on the program and now we’re looking for another programmer to join our team and help us push NMM in to a full release candidate.

Applicants need to be experienced in .NET and C#. It will be the duty of the .N...

Mod of the Month interview with Kamal

This will be the first in a series of interviews with past Mod of the Month winners here on the Nexus, which should come out weekly until we've caught up with all of the past winners. These will be posted in order of their completion.

This interview is with Kamal, for the mod Kamal's Generic Commoner AI. Kamal has produced many mods for Neverwinter Nights 2, including a full-length campaign for players, many area prefabs for modders, and many assorted scripts, systems, and...

TES5EDIT : Cleaning your mods

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In this video I try to help mod makers understand the basics behind cleaning their mod files. The video covers the basics of how to do it, and more importantly, why you should do it. I hope it helps.

Download and documentation links
TES5Edit.

TES5Edit Cleaning Guide - TES5Edit
Official Forum Thread...

Skyrim song : Khajiit like to sneak

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Modders are not the only people getting creative with Bethesda games. I thought you guys might enjoy this song about Khajiit by a musician Known as MiracleOfSound. He makes music and songs inspired by popular games. Hope you enjoy....

Fallout 3 Mod Clinic part 2 : RH Ironsights

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Part 2 of Fallout 3 mod clinic. Here I focus on the RH Ironsights mod.

Download Links:
RH_IronSights - FOSE
Paradox Ignition presents The Mergers...

Firaxis as coy as ever on modding support for XCOM, UPK files successfully loaded

In a recent talk with Joystiq about the upcoming XCOM DLC Firaxis are still being annoyingly tight-lipped and non committal on modding support for XCOM.

As for the future of XCOM, Firaxis is open to the possibilities. Regarding the potential for mods and user-created content, DeAngelis notes that "it wasn't one of our core pillars when we started the project," but the team understands how important it is to the community. "It's something that we'd like to resolve going f...

BLOG PIECE: Nexus development and expansion philosophy

I’m enjoying a slow couple of days at the moment, catching up on watching Homeland (which I don’t think is that great, in case you care), playing through Borderlands 2 again and trying for the life of me to finish a campaign of Crusader Kings 2 while fighting the good fight for the Vanu in Planetside 2. All this is before I even think about playing through XCOM, and I’ve still got Torchlight 2 waiting in my Steam account, unplayed, with Faster Than Light installing on to my PC as we speak....

Skyrim Mod Sanctuary 50 : Halls of Dovahndor and Hunters Cabin of Riverwood

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A couple of player homes are the subject of this episode. Both by the same author, but both are very different homes indeed.

Thumbnail image for this video is 'End' courtesy of kaldaar.

Download Links:
Halls of Dovahndor
Hunters Cabin of Riverwood...

NMM 0.31.2 Released

We've released a new version of the Nexus Mod Manager today that provides official support for an offline mode as well as a few bug fixes. While the old NMM worked while offline it was never officially supported. Version 0.31.2, the latest version, provides support for an offline mode as a button at the login screen. If you don't want to login, or don't have a connection, you can use the "Offline" button to use NMM in offline mode. You won't be able to download files or view late...

AME Finalists announced for \"Most Replayable Module\"

The Academy of Modding Excellence is pleased to announce the results of our Fall 2012 Quarterly review!

The following Neverwinter Nights 2 Golden Dragon Awards have now entered the finals:

NWN2 2009-2011 Most Replayable Module Award

Edinmoor, by Dorateen. As is the case for all of Dorateen’s modules, Edinmoor features Storm of Zehir's full party creation and party conversation systems. The author made an effort to provide specific conversation lin...

XCOM Modding Update

XCOM has now been out for a little over a week and our forums have been buzzing with users trying to get in to the game and mod it as much as possible. We’ve made headway in a number of areas and hit stumbling blocks in others, but every day new discoveries are being made.

First of all you’ll notice that the first mods have popped up in our file database which provide a number of INI tweaks. You’ll find a number of different takes on balancing XCOM and changing settings to eit...

TES5Edit EXPERIMENTAL is now available for experience testers to try out

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Experienced modders will be well aware of the excellent tools known as tes4edit, fo3edit and fnvedit, and you may have been eagerly awaiting the Skyrim equivalent. Well the good news is that an experimental version is now available for testing. PLEASE note the word EXPERIMENTAL.

You can download TES5Edit 3.0.22 EXPERIMENTAL here.

TES5Edit Cleaning Guide - TES5Edit
Official Forum Thread...

OpenMW 0.18.0 released

The OpenMW team is happy to announce OpenMW version 0.18.0 has been released. This version introduces a myriad of new features, including Level-Up, Key re-binding, Spell buying, eating ingredients, using Keys to open things, and much more. A full changelog shall be added at the end of the post. As since version 0.9.0, a release commentary video which covers the most important changes is available to watch.

New to OpenMW?
OpenMW is a modernized and more moddable open-source en...