First Dragonborn screenshots!

The first screenshots of Dragonborn have been released, and you can view them below.

Skaal

Dragon Skeleton

Bull Netch

Oblivion

Raven Rock

Redoran Guard

Seeker

Dragon Peak

Ash Spawn

Black Book

Cultist

Redoran Tavern...

Happy Birthday Skyrim: A look back at the first year (part 2)

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Part 2 of my look back at the first year of mods for Skyrim.

Thumbnail image for this video is 'Before The Storm' courtesy of kaldaar.

Download Links:
RWT Realistic Water Textures
Realistic Lighting Without Post-Processing
JaySuS Swords
Bucklers
Arrowsmith - Reupload
Better archery Eagle Eye perk
Balanced Magic
Mage-Friendly Dragon Priest Masks
Warmer Magic Lights
Staff of Magnus I...

Mod of the Month interview with Fallyn Rayne

This is part of a series of interviews with past Mod of the Month winners here on the Nexus, which should come out approximately 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 Fallyn Rayne, for the mods Gladiatrix and Gladiatrix II: In the Shadows of Darkness, both of which won Mod of the Month awards on the Nexus. These large-scale modules follow the adventures of a young noblewoman who takes...

Skyrim Nexus - One year on

We’ve already got two articles up in the news looking back on Skyrim and celebrating its one year anniversary, but I just wanted to make a quick article celebrating one year of Skyrim mods on Skyrim Nexus, and to dissect the publically available site stats information to publicise some sensationalist figures. Because I kind of like doing it myself from time to time, and I thought I’d share my findings.

By applying some simple maths to the stats we can work out some pretty intere...

Happy Birthday Skyrim: A look back at the first year (part 1)

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In this video I look back at a year of Skyrim mods and how far we have come, and possibly how much further we have to go.

Thumbnail image for this video is courtesy of BlakkPhoenix.

Download Links:
1. Nexus Mod Manager
2. Enhanced Blood Textures
3. Lockpick Pro
4. Large Address Aware : No longer needed
5. Interface Hard Coded Key Tweaks
6. Skyrim Sunglare
7. 4GB Skyrim : No longer needed
8. Simple Borderl...

Skyrim one year anniversary!

It has been exactly one year since Skyrim was released, and we have seen some amazing mods popping up since then, and 8 game updates have been released by Bethesda, which is quite a lot compared to their previous games - whether it is because they want us to have the best game possible or just because the game had so many problems to start with doesn't really matter, we got the updates. Two DLCs; Dawnguard and Hearthfire, and another DLC on the horizon; Dragonborn. We have gotten quite a lot...

OpenMW 0.19.0 released

The OpenMW team is proud to announce the release of version 0.19.0! Release packages for Ubuntu are now available via our Launchpad PPA. Release packages for other platforms are available on our Download page. This version introduces Sleeping, Potions, DEATH!!, Spell Creation, Travel, and many other features.

Check out our release video by WeirdSexy.

Known Issues:

Launcher crashes on OS X < 10.8
Extreme shaking can occur during exterior...

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.

he next DLC will be called Dragonborn and it will be set on the island of Solstheim.
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...