Stay Home. Make Mods. Win Prizes. - Week 1

Are you bored being stuck at home? Looking for some inspiration to finally realise that mod idea you've been thinking about? Well then: Stay Home. Make Mods. for your chance to win prizes each week between 6th April and 4th May! 

In light of recent world events, we wanted to do our part in helping our community cope with social distancing and self-isolation by giving you something to focus on during this challenging time. So why not make some mods? 

We've also teamed up...

Looking to work for us? Check our new Careers Page

As our community and site continue to grow, we are looking for suitable additions to our team to work with us in our offices in Exeter, UK. While we have in the past used the site news to let our community know about new job openings, we now have a dedicated careers page that will constantly be updated with all currently available positions.

You can find the careers page in the footer of the site:


At the moment we are looking to fill two positions in particular: <...

Monster Hunter: World - Major Update and Interview with Stracker

Ever since the PC release of Monster Hunter: World in August of 2018, we have been amazed to see all the mods and utilities that have been created and released by the Monster Hunter community. This is especially true since the release of the Iceborne DLC in January of this year, when the number for peak current players on Steam surpassed 280,000 - and that spike in interest was of course also reflected in the amount of new mods being released!

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Today, 12th March, Mo...

Modder to Developer - muppetpuppet

Today we have a special treat. We caught up with Tomas Sala, a.k.a. the esteemed Skyrim modder muppetpuppet, about his upcoming game release and his history in modding. For those unfamiliar with his work, muppetpuppet created one of the first "new world" mods for Skyrim back in 2012 - Moonpath to Elsweyr.


Thank you for joining us for this interview Tomas (aka muppetpuppet). So, going back to the very start, when and how did you first get into gaming?

I actually st...

Kingdom Come: Deliverance and Aztez now FREE on the Epic Games store

A quick heads up if you've missed it: Kingdom Come: Deliverance is now available for free on the Epic Games store until 20th February (the regular price for the game is ~£24.99 or currency equivalent, so this is a big one). Make sure to grab it alongside Aztez - a unique hybrid of beat 'em up and turn-based strategy - also available free of charge!

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Kingdom Come: Deliverance is a critically acclaimed RPG that immerses you in an epic adventure taking place in the Hol...

We're looking for a Front End Developer

If you love gaming and have front end development experience, we may have a job for you! 

As part of our ongoing projects to improve and revitalise our website, we're looking for a junior-mid level front end developer to join our team. You'll have a major part in shaping the look and feel of our user experience across all of our services with your work being used by millions of users worldwide. This position is based in our offices in Exeter in the UK, it is not a remote working pos...

Screenshot Competition: Winners and Prizes

A few weeks ago, we asked you to submit your best Red Dead Redemption 2 shots in our screenshot competition in which we are giving away three Steam gift cards. The turnout has been great and our jury had an absolute blast looking through over 250 stunning entries. 

Without further ado, here are our top 3 picks:


The Winners

1st place goes to...

"Desert Beauty" by Raz3d - Congratulations! The prize of a £50 Steam Gift Card is yours to clai...

Important Security Notice

What has happened?

In the very early morning of 8th November 2019 we noticed suspicious activity by a potentially malicious third party actor against our services. Using an exploit in our legacy codebase, our logs confirm that they accessed a small number of user records from the old user service.

Even though we were able to secure the endpoint as soon as we discovered the exploit, as a measure of security, we are informing all of you, as we cannot rule out that further a...

Win prizes in our Red Dead Redemption 2 Screenshot Competition

Thank you, everyone, for participating! We have received well over 250 entries and are looking forward to going through all of them to find our three winners soon! The competition is now closed, please note that any uploads to the competition category made after today, 16th December 16:00 GMT, are not eligible to win prizes. 

Share your best screenshots of RDR2 on Nexus Mods and win one of three prizes in our RDR2 screenshot competition running from today, 29th November until 16th ...

What's new in Vortex 1.1?

It doesn't feel like it's been long since we officially launched Vortex - our new mod manager - back in July but that was 4 months ago! Over that time, the Vortex team have been hard at work going through all the great feedback sent in by our community and building some exciting new features to make your modding experience even better. 

You can now update to the latest build (1.1.3) next time you open Vortex or manually install it from the Vortex download page.

So what'...

Important Security Update to our User Portal

We have just released an important upgrade to our user and login services. This will change how you log in to your account and manage your security settings. As part of the roll-out, all users are required to update their passwords. Please make sure your email address is up to date, and - optionally - that you (re-)enable 2FA in the new user portal.

Note: If you are currently logged in, you can still use the site without having to update your password just now, however, towards the e...

Project Spotlight: Daggerfall Unity

Today we are talking to Interkarma, developer of Daggerfall Unity a Unity port of The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall that brings the classic RPG to a new engine substantially improving upon stability and playability. Curious to try it out? Follow the steps outlined here.

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First and foremost: could you give us a bit of an introduction to who you are and how you got into modding / programming?
 
I’m just a normal geeky guy. I was born in Australia and have...

The Tale of Lucien - JosephRussell

In this Mod Author interview, we’re chatting with JosephRussell (formerly Treacleman), the author of Skyrim’s most popular male follower mod in 2018 - Lucien. As a special bonus, Joseph has created a video version of this interview for you to enjoy!

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Thank you for joining us today, Joseph.

Thanks for having me, Picky, it’s an absolute pleasure.


For those in the community who don’t know you, tell us about yourself. 

Donation Points Stats and No Ads for Mod Authors

It has now been well over a year since we launched our mod author rewards program - the Donation Points system - intended to give back to the very people who spend their time creating the mods we all enjoy and love. We're very proud of what we've been able to achieve so far with the DP system and you can now get an overview and breakdown of the distribution of DP on our new, dedicated DP stats page. But that’s not all: As part of our commitment to giving back to our modding community, we recen...

Project Spotlight: Project Genesis World Overhaul

Today we are talking to Atlasroar, Swishos, and GregAmazingNinja from the Project Genesis World Overhaul - a massive, all-encompassing overhaul mod for Kenshi - a squad-based RPG based in a desolate, post-apocalyptic world that infamously does not care about you.

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BigBizkit: Could you guys give us a little bit of an introduction as to what your roles are on the project?

Atlasroar: Of course! Hey all, I'm Atlas! I'm the community/server manager for the Gen...

Ace of Space - Lo2k

For this week's mod author interview, we're joined by Lo2k, who has been a member of our community since 2006 and is the author of over 50 different mods for No Man's Sky.

Thank you for joining us Lo2k. To start off, can you tell us a little bit about yourself?

Thanks for inviting me for this interview on Nexus Mods. Sure. I'm Laurent Rousseau, aka Lo2k. I'm French and I live close to Paris. I'm repairing multi-function printers for a living and it provides me with quite...

Design Update - Our New Navigation is here

A few weeks ago, we launched the beta testing phase for our new site navigation. Our design team has been hard at work implementing it, as well as working in some of the changes suggested by all of you who partook in the accompanying survey. Thank you very much for all your responses and feedback!

With that being said, we are very pleased with how well the new nav has been received, so we are now happy to roll it out for all of you.


New Site Navigation - some key ch...

GreedFall: Vortex Support added

Good news, everyone! As of version 1.0.3, our new mod manager Vortex now supports GreedFall - the recently released action role-playing game developed by Spiders (not actual spiders!).

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Get the best GreedFall Mods

Since the release of GreedFall last week, we have already seen an outpour of creativity from our modding community with various visual and quality of life mods being released by talented modders. Check out some of our favour...

A soup-erb interview - ElSopa

Today we are talking to ElSopa - long-time member of the site, texture artist, and creator of "I can't believe it's not an ENB" as well as several SkyUI themes and widget designs.

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BigBizkit: To start this off, why don’t you tell us a bit about yourself?

ElSopa: Well, first of all, I want to thank you guys for giving me this space, as you have given other super talented authors!

About myself, w...

Design Update - Try our new navigation

Starting today, we're rolling out an opt-in beta version of the site that will feature a new header, footer and updated game tiles. The new layout features a minimal design that includes all the key features from the current version. If you are interested in taking it for a test drive, click the "Take a look" option in the banner at the top of the website (or click here). 



Once you've given yourself some time to adjust to the new design, we'd love to hear your thoughts....