Oblivion texts turned into a single tome

Gamerfront brings news about a Reddit user called notadoctoreither who has formatted, printed, and bound every text that appears in Oblivion. We’re not talking about standard printer paper with a cardboard binding. No, he went all-out with some high-quality paper, and leather binding. The total cost of the project was roughly $130, and roughly a month’s worth of work. Half of that time was spent getting the text formatted for printing. While he isn't making any more copies you can down...

Complete Skyrim Collectors Edition photo released

Bethesda Softworks received the final version of the art book which will be included in the collectors edition of Skyrim. This has allowed them to post a photo on the Bethblog and handily provided in this news post. The Collectors Edition contains a cloth map of Skyrim, 200 page art book, 30cm (12 inch for our American friends) statue of Alduin the dragon, a large novelty box - shown here with the Xbox360 label - and fortunately a copy of the game and manual. This week we received a final ...

No Mutants Allowed reviews Lonesome Road

Brother None from the famous Fallout fansite No Mutants Allowed has reviewed the final story DLC Lonesome Road. He says that it contains a superb atmosphere but also contains a lot of linear, first person shooter style gameplay which doesn't follow the same style as the rest of the Fallout games, or even the two most recent Fallout games. The DLC's strongest point is atmosphere. Unlike the other DLCs, you're given no background through slideshows or expository opening dialogs, you just wan...

Lonesome Road Released

The last major DLC for Fallout New Vegas has now been released on PC and is available for download via Steam. The price is currently listed as US$9.99 (which we all know really means $10 - do they think anyone actually falls for odd pricing). The Xbox version was available for download before the PC version. The final two DLCs will be weapon and item mods. Courier's Stash due to be released seven days from now. It will add all the initial items that were available for pre-ordered versio...

Lonesome Road trailer released

Bethesda has released the trailer for Lonesome Road, the upcoming fourth DLC for Fallout: New Vegas. As usual, the trailer mostly shows off the new environments and weapons. Lonesome Road is due for release on September 20th and will cost $10 on Steam. Watch the trailer below and share your thoughts. KICszQNDUOA...

Twenty minutes of Skyrim

Earlier today, IGN released footage of the behind-closed-doors demo of Skyrim at E3 this year. The video is split into three parts total, found here, here, and here. It's really worth a watch if you haven't already seen it. We saw a bit of it from the E3 videos, but this has all of the video shown from E3 behind-the-scenes....

August FOTM Interview

Sorry for the delay on this months FOTM winner interview readers. This month our winner is Neil from “NMC’s Texture Pack For New Vegas”, which happens to be a very large and beautiful texture pack for New Vegas that replaces a huge amount of textures with high res versions. So please read on and enjoy! Wolfen: So Neil, why don't you tell us a bit about your self? The games you are into, modding, where you live, what ever you feel comfortable telling us. Neil: Well I am currently a ...

Nexus modding competition nearing closing date

The Nexus 2.5 millionth member competition is coming up on its closing date. Set to mark the 2.5 millionth member to register on the Nexus sites, modders have the chance to win some cash prizes ($350, $100 and $50 respectively) for Oblivion, New Vegas and Dragon Age. All you have to do is create a mod that reflects the modding community: The theme of this modding competition will be "The community we are in". I'm hoping to see some great mods that cover users in the community that might have...

Skyrim demonstration video coming Monday (US time)

Bethesda Softworks spokesman Mr Pete Hines announced via twitter that a demonstration video of Skyrim would be ready for release by Monday (US time). The video will contain footage similar to that aired in previous game conventions such as E3 and Quake. Mr Todd Howard will feature as the narrator. Bethesda Softworks has said that this will be the best chance to see how the game will appear and play before it is released. The game is currently just over two months from release....

Nexus Mod Manager, the Nexus Client, entering closed BETA

In some of my past blog posts I've been alluding to a project in development for the Nexus sites that, at the time, I wasn't prepared to go in to details on. I am now happy to announce that a Mod and Download manager, named the Nexus Client, is going in to Closed Beta with some select mod authors from Fallout 3 Nexus and New Vegas Nexus in the next few days. Plans for the Nexus Client were laid down back in December of last year when I was approached by Kaburke, the current developer working...

August File of the Month Interview feat. Elestat

Sorry about the confusion last month. TESNexus's File of the Month system was messed up, making it hard to decide on who the winner was (the last time was from May!) In any case, this month's File of the Month winner of your choice is Elestat, who won with Trade and Commerce at 97 votes. That's a considerable amount! Hopefully you'll enjoy this interview with Elestat and the insight into the creation of the mod and learn a bit about them. Tell us a little about yourselves. Where you are ...

Lonesome Road details

After being delayed twice, the next (and most likely last) DLC for Fallout New: Vegas, ”Lonesome Road” was confirmed to be coming out on September 20th of this year for Xbox 360, PS3, and PC. Not too much information has been given out on the DLC pack, but we do know that it will increase the level cap by five and your equipment will not be stripped at the beginning of the DLC’s questline. When asked about “Lonesome Road”, creative director of Obsidian Entertainment, Chris Avellone, ...

EA/Bioware's stance on modding Dragon Age

Use of Dragon Age Assets (all game versions) in Mods In response to communication from the Nexus Staff, the Dragon Age development team provided their perspective on this issue. Their basic position is: BioWare will allow relatively free use of its in-game resources (models and textures) from Dragon Age (all games) by modders who wish to create new content for use in the Dragon Age series. BioWare requires three things: 1. Mod must be totally non-commercial. There can be no payme...

Skyrim to feature same-sex marriage options

Earlier, Pete Hines (the Vice President of Bethesda’s PR department), stated on Twitter that same-sex marriage will be allowed in Skyrim. He responded to someone who called the topic “hush hush” by saying Not hush hush, just not making a huge deal out of it. You can marry anyone. He later clarified his previous tweet by posting Sorry, should clarify. Not any NPC, just mean any male or female. Doesn't matter what you're playing. It appears that Skyrim is taking after games like Dragon ...

Day 2 - Nexus redesign

So here we are, almost at the end of day 2 since the Nexus site redesign launch. I've been spending most of my time on bug fixes and tweaks based on the feedback you've all been giving me. Thank you for, in the most part, remaining calm and constructive during this period. I'm just going to go through a few of the major and minor things that keep coming up in the feedback and run you through of the changes already made, and a few upcoming changes. First of all my apologies to the IE8 users...

Lonesome Road scheduled for 20 September plus 2 more DLC

Bethesda's blog has the news that Lonesome Road will be available for purchase on 20 September 2011. In Lonesome Road you are contacted by the original Courier Six, a man by the name of Ulysses who refused to deliver the Platinum Chip at the start of Fallout: New Vegas. Ulysses promises the answer as to why he didn’t take the job, but only if you make one last journey into the hurricane-swept canyons of the Divide, a landscape torn apart by earthquakes and violent storms. It’s up to you w...

New redesign implemented

If you're reading this then you're looking at the new Nexus site design. If this is a surprise to you then sorry! I've been keeping people informed through the site news and blog posts over the past few months so try and check in every now and again and see what new stuff is getting added to the sites. This new design is the combination of many months of hard work between myself and a professional web designer trying to get things, to start with, how I wanted it and then following some constr...

Nexus redesign finalised, launching next week

A few weeks back I posted a heads-up regarding my plans to launch a redesigned look to the Nexus Sites by the end of August. The feedback to the redesign was mostly good and some of the constructive criticism provided has either already been incorporated in to the final design or has been noted, perhaps for addition later on down the line. Listed below are test examples for each of the Nexus Sites. These are very close to final now and I'm not going to be making any major changes before the c...

Skyrim confirmed to use Steamworks

Bethesda today confirmed that Skyrim will use Steamworks. Given the use of Steamworks for Fallout: New Vegas and Brink its use in Skyrim isn't very surprising. Note that the game is still a "Games for Windows" title, but will not use Games for Windows Live. ...

The Nexus 10 year anniversary

This week in August marks the 10 year anniversary of the Nexus sites. I launched Morrowind Chronicles at the age of 15 back in August of 2001. What started as a general purpose news and information site for Morrowind has now spread in to a multi-site network of mod databases that are some of the largest modding sites in the world. I feel a great sense of achievement and pride for this great community which is a testament to some great games and some great modders. And what's best, I feel like I'...