Hi folks,

As most of you know, Skyrim Special Edition was released on Friday and naturally, a lot of people are clamouring to get mods for the game. Skyrim has always been our most popular game on Nexus Mods and the release of the Special Edition has seen an unprecedented amount of users access our site over the past 36 hours. There are currently 16,500 people online this Saturday afternoon (in the UK) when, on a normal Saturday, it would be around 8,500 people. As you can imagine, our web servers are taking a hammering. Thankfully our download CDN is extremely responsive to these sorts of shor ...(continue reading the full article)

There won’t be many people who frequent the Nexus that won’t have heard of a certain big release happening this Friday the 28th October. Skyrim: Special Edition will finally be released and after our recent discussion with the community, we have set up Skyrim: Special Edition as a new game on Nexus Mods. We’re now ready to accept the myriad of mods already being created by people who were lucky enough to get access to the beta test. The new url is http://nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition.

We have also added a tool that will let the author of any Skyrim mod page duplicate most of their in ...(continue reading the full article)

We’re in the throes of the redesign at the moment and while I have left the actual development to our seasoned professionals, I have still been on the lookout for new content to fill it with. Like I mentioned in the redesign post of yesteryear, we are making the news and articles a bit more of a prominent feature. We’ve been in the process of collecting information, preparing interviews with prominent members of our vast and varied community and looking for ideas that we can follow up on for features.

As the redesign doesn’t look like it is going to be completed within the next few month ...(continue reading the full article)

Over the last few weeks, we've been discussing how to best approach the upcoming release of Skyrim Special Edition (SSE), specifically in regards to how Nexus will host SSE files. Due to changes in some file formats, not everything will be compatible right away. For example, anything packaged with a .bsa extension will need to either be extracted to “loose” files or extracted and repackaged using the new SSE Creation Kit. Another example would be mods that rely on SKSE. Until SKSE has been updated for SSE, any mods that rely on it will not work (SkyUI being the obvious example here).

(If yo ...(continue reading the full article)

We’re all very aware that it’s been a long time since we provided an update on what’s happening in the grand scheme of the Nexus Mod Manager. Too long. As such, it’s time to reveal a few exciting things and our plans moving forward. Oh, and sorry, it’s one of those “long ones” again.

The Nexus Mod Manager -- the software we’ve been working on these past six years that helps make modding the more popular games on Nexus Mods easier for users. For me, NMM is a bitter-sweet tool with the Nexus name attached to it; it’s been downloaded over 20 million times by over 6.6 million indi ...(continue reading the full article)

It is with great pleasure that I can announce the newest addition to the Nexus Mods team, Jim, who goes by the alias Terrorfox1234.

Jim has been on my radar for a long time. He originally applied for the community manager position that ultimately SirSalami ended up filling due to having a bit more prior-experience in the area, but we’ve maintained contact over the past 18 months and interacted on many occasions throughout the wider community. I liked his application so much that I specifically messaged him to let him know how great it was, and to let him know that if something similar cropped ...(continue reading the full article)

Robin: Alright, it’s eight o’clock and we’re English. So punctuality is important to us. So let’s get this show on the road.

Paul: They’re on mute. Over to you?

Robin: So the point of this AMA, ask me anything, is literally just to give you a forum to talk to me and I will try to answer your questions as best I can. Or as many of them as I can. It’s kind of just like a tester; we’re testing out various different features on the site. Trying to engage more with the community. Trying to get more stuff on the site that isn’t just automatically put on the site by people adding stuf ...(continue reading the full article)

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Update: Here's the recording of the recent AMA (Ask me anything). Had a great time, thanks everyone! Hope to do it again soon!

Stream: https://soundcloud.com/user-433087746
Download: https://forums.nexusmods.com/ama/nexus_mods_ama_robin_scott.mp3

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Recently we introduced Discord as our preferred community chat platform and it really seems to have taken off. We had a few hiccups and no doubt will have a few more, but we’re getting there with around 900-1000 users online at any one time.

We’re currently looking at introducing various bots and roles within our little Discord world to ...(continue reading the full article)

If you’re the type of gamer, like us, who likes to use text chat and voice comms to catch up with friends and play games with them, then you’ve probably heard of Discord by now.

Discord can probably be best described as TeamSpeak or Ventrilo 2.0. It looks pretty, it works brilliantly, it’s efficient and it successfully combines voice and text chat to make a service that is both better than the early voice comms software as well as better than text chat software like Skype. Think IRC meets Ventrilo and they make a 2016 love child, and you kind of get the idea.

You don’t need to download ...(continue reading the full article)

If you were a little nervous about installing a total conversion mod like Enderal, this video will show you how to install that mod whilst allowing you to switch back to your old modded Skyrim easily using Nexus Mod Manager and the Enderal Launcher.