NWN2 Module Baldur\'s Gate Reloaded - Now Released

The long-in-coming project remaking the original Baldur's Gate in the Neverwinter Nights 2 engine has been released as of 2013-06-04, and is available on the Neverwinter Nexus.

Fans and followers of the project have been waiting seven years for this major release -- since before this writer had even heard of Neverwinter Nights!

Information from the project coordinators follows:

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A fan-made remake of and tribute to the original Baldur'...

Rogue Dao interview doubles in size!

The interview with Rogue Dao Studios from late January now has a second voice added -- that of Mike Dismukes, producer of Purgatorio and head of Rogue Dao Studios. Mike joins Megan Carmody to provide more background and information about their Planescape: Purgatorio project.

See the expanded interview here....

Mod of the Month interview with Rogue Dao Studios

This is part of a series of interviews with past Mod of the Month winners here on the Nexus, which still has some catching up to do. These will be posted in order of their completion.

This interview is with Rogue Dao Studios members Mike Dismukes and Megan Carmody, for the Planescape: Purgatorio demo available here on the Nexus. Mike is the producer of Purgatorio and head of Rogue Dao Studios, and Megan is project lead on Planescape: Purgatorio. We will be discussing this demo, as w...

GOG releases NWN2 complete with Mysteries of Westgate

On the 24th of January, GOG finally made it possible again for people to buy Neverwinter Nights 2 without having to also buy other games. A short time after the lawsuit between Hasbro/Wizards of the Coast and Atari over their handling of the D&D license, Atari lost the rights to publish D&D-based games, and all online stores removed Neverwinter Nights 2 from their catalogues.

In the months that followed, NWN2 eventually showed up again, but only in bundles, such as D&D Neverwinter ...

CDProjektRED hint open world Witcher 3 in the works

Yesterday CDProjektRED, developers of The Witcher series, released a teaser CGI trailer for their already announced project CyberPunk 2077. It's pretty cool, albeit gives us no insight in to the game play itself. But that's not what this news is about. Within the trailer CDProjektRED threw in some great little easter eggs and spoilers amongst all the static. One of which is a rather lengthy message, picked up on Reddit by hotweels258, that reads:

Do you like our latest creat...

BLOG PIECE: Nexus moderation system overhaul, etiquette and ethos

We’ve almost finished the overhaul of our moderation system tools and functionality and with it brings some changes to our moderation ethos and practises. To further explain these changes to you I’ve written up this document that explains the new tools we’ll be able to utilise and how this is going to affect things. As usual, it’s a big one so if you’re interested go put the kettle on.

Our moderating ethos has always followed a concept of being strict but fair. It comes fr...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

Obsidian commit to mod support and the Nexus for Project Eternity

If you haven’t got your head close to the ground when it comes to gaming news you might not know that RPG developers Obsidian, famous for Fallout New Vegas, Neverwinter Nights 2 and Knights of the Old Republic 2, have been raising funds via Kickstarter for a completely new IP they’ve dubbed Project Eternity.

Project Eternity is an isometric, party-based RPG much akin to some of the best RPGs ever made such as Baldur’s Gate, Icewind Dale and Planescape Torment. If you liked th...

Sale on NWN Diamond on GOG this week

From the 14th to the 21st, GOG.com is running a "Diamonds of D&D promotion of what looks like all of their D&D games, including Neverwinter Nights (Diamond edition) for up to 65% off.

Also included in the sale are Baldur's Gate 1 & 2, Planescape: Torment, Icewind Dale 1 & 2, and The Temple of Elemental Evil, all great games.

Where to buy Neverwinter Nights 2 is a frequently asked question lately, since the Hasbro/Atari dispute seems to have resulted in the game bein...

Golden Dragon Award announcements from the Academy of Modding Excellence

Greetings to all fans of the Neverwinter Nights game series! Over the past few years, the Academy for Modding Excellence has been working to bring recognition to great mods for both Neverwinter Nights and Neverwinter Nights 2 with the Golden Dragon Awards. See more about the AME at the end of this article, especially if you'd be interested in helping out with evaluating and nominating mods that deserve a look!

Following are the announcements for the latest award results ...

New Site Index - Day 3

A few days ago we finished rolling our preliminary new index page, complete with feeds. Since then we’ve been carefully combing through the feedback that didn’t contain threats on our lives or the use of pitchforks, fire-lit torches or tinfoil hats and we’ve been gradually working to improve the features on offer. I thought, on day 3, I’d share some of the updates and improvements we’ve made since first rolling out the new index page and just let you know that we’re still working on ...

Site and NMM updates, social networking features incoming

It’s been a while since I provided you all with an update on our activities so I thought I’d fire off a “quick” news article on what we’ve got rolling out soon, and in to the future.

Site speed
We’ve been working like badgers since rolling out the new code on Skyim Nexus to get everything refined and optimised for the new code base and to eradicate the slow-downs that have plagued the site and forums over the past few weeks. We think we might have sussed it out now...

Site updates and content filtering

We are in the final stages of rolling out our new codebase on all the Nexus sites and the only site left to be converted is Skyrim Nexus. We’ve been converting each Nexus site one at a time and then tweaking and updating the code to reflect any performance issues that have occurred. Due to the sheer amount of traffic that Skyrim Nexus still receives we’re being extra careful and ensuring we’ve optimised all the code as much as possible (based on our observations from the sites we’ve alre...

Interview with slowdivefan, winner of Marchs FOTM contest

Ladies and gentlemen, for the month of March slowdivefan and the rest of the "IWD Team" won the March FOTM contest for Neverwinter Nexus with their mod Icewind Dale. Congratulations are in order for the entire IWD Team, however, today I got the chance to speak to slowdivefan, and you can read the interview below. Be sure to vote in the FOTM contest if you want to see your favorite mod author interviewed here. Congratulations to the IWD Team for creating the March FOTM.

Q: So, slowdi...

Mount & Blade 75% sale on Steam

Hopefully by now you're aware that we have a Mount & Blade Nexus for Mount & Blade mods. What you might not know is that there is currently a Mount & Blade sale on Steam with a whopping 75% discount. You can now purchase all three Mount & Blade games for a measly £6.25 (around $9.99).

If you've been putting off getting the games, or weren't interested before but now your purse can stretch to this super low price then head on over to the Steam sale to pick up this b...