TES5Edit EXPERIMENTAL is now available for experience testers to try out

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Experienced modders will be well aware of the excellent tools known as tes4edit, fo3edit and fnvedit, and you may have been eagerly awaiting the Skyrim equivalent. Well the good news is that an experimental version is now available for testing. PLEASE note the word EXPERIMENTAL.

You can download TES5Edit 3.0.22 EXPERIMENTAL here.

TES5Edit Cleaning Guide - TES5Edit
Official Forum Thread...

OpenMW 0.18.0 released

The OpenMW team is happy to announce OpenMW version 0.18.0 has been released. This version introduces a myriad of new features, including Level-Up, Key re-binding, Spell buying, eating ingredients, using Keys to open things, and much more. A full changelog shall be added at the end of the post. As since version 0.9.0, a release commentary video which covers the most important changes is available to watch.

New to OpenMW?
OpenMW is a modernized and more moddable open-source en...

Download system overhauled on site and in NMM

I’m pleased to announce that with the release of version 0.30.1 NMM will now work with our new download system that was described in one of my previous news posts.

With the new download system your downloads are balanced across our entire file server network (currently 10 file servers). Non-premium members are capped at a download speed of 1MB/second (8mbit) across all their downloads. If you download 1 file, you'll be able to download at a maximum of 1MB/second. If you downl...

Skyrim Mod Sanctuary 49 : Blaze of Eventide, Nordic Ranger and Ritual Armor of Boethiah

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A mix of mods for you in this episode, all of which made it to the 'hot files' section of the Nexus front page.

Thumbnail image for this video is courtesy of BlakkPhoenixx.

Download Links:
Blaze Of Eventide
Nordic Ranger Outfit
Ritual Armor of Boethiah...

Fallout 3 Mod Clinic part 1 : Remastered, Blackened and Merged

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My first Fallout 3 mod clinic. Here I focus on mods that fix problems and tidy up the load order a little.

Download Links:
Paradox Ignition presents The Mergers
Fellout
EVE - Energy Visuals Enhanced
Fallout Remastered
Blackened...

Finding the first step

Right now the North Americans are happily playing away at XCOM while most of the rest of the world waits until tomorrow to get their mits on it. However, that hasn't stopped some budding modders trying to work their way in to the XCOM file and config setups.

Obviously things are going to get off to a slow start as people poke and prod at the game to try and get something out of it, but consider working together with others on our XCOM modding forums who are already working hard ...

XCOM Nexus Launched

It is with great pleasure that I announce the launch of XCOM Nexus ready in time for the release of XCOM – Enemy Unknown this week (Tuesday in America, Friday in most other places).

If somehow you’re not aware, the X-COM series of games are considered massive cult classics with a whole wealth of depth that has never been replicated in the 15 years since the last proper game was released in the series. You play as the commander of a top secret agency tasked with protecting the wo...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Hearthfire is now available for download on Steam

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In case some of you did not notice, the Hearthfire DLC is now available for PC and can be purchased on Steam. Have fun....

Grimrock Editor released, mods available for all

I know quite a few people were disappointed to find out that the Editor beta and early modding was limited to those who had bought the game via Steam. Today that's all water under the bridge as Almost Human have now released the Editor to the masses, along with an update to Legends of Grimrock that opens up modders to all owners of the game no matter where you bought it.

After several months of break-neck speed development, Almost Human is proud to release the most anticipated m...

Skyrim Mod Sanctuary 48 : Airships

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A video about airships in Skyrim.

Thumbnail image for this video is 'Airship' courtesy of tekmage.

Download Links:
Dwemer Skyship fully flyable
Airship - Dev Aveza...

Setting of Fallout 4 - Where, if not Boston?

The California Literary Review has its second part on where Fallout 4 should be based in order to best reflect the character of Fallout. In its first part they argued that Fallout was both a western and post apocalyptic, and that Fallout 3 based in Washington DC did not convey that appropriately.

In the second part they suggest several alternative sites including New York, New Orleans, Colorado and Santa Fe as locations that would make a better setting.

Yes, yes, I know...

Skyrim Mod Sanctuary 47 : aMidianBorn Armor

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A video focusing on re-texturing some of the vanilla armor sets.

Thumbnail image for this video is courtesy of kailay.

Download Links:
aMidianBorn Leather Armor
aMidianBorn iron and banded armors
aMidianBorn steel armor
aMidianBorn steel plate armor
aMidianBorn Dwarven Armor
aMidianBorn Elven Armor...

Skywind

First it was Morroblivion, now it's Skywind.

The group that was behind the project to port Morrowind over to the Oblivion engine has done it again, this time using the Skyrim engine.

From the Morroblivion forums:

Q: What IS Skywind exactly?

A: It is a non-commercial, fan made modification for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim that seeks to merge the amazing world of The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind with the enhanced graphics and capabilities of S...

DSfix 1.5 released

I just released a new version of DSfix!
One particular request I got here at the Nexus is support for .dds texture overrides, and that is now implemented.

Bugfixes:
Fixed an issue with SSAO being rendered on top of particle effects/fog/water, instead of below them.
Improved the method used to determine when in the render pipeline to apply SMAA/SSAO, and also included more robust renderstate management. (This may fix the random display corruption issue people ...

Skyrim 2012 parts 2 and 3

Skyrim 2012, part 1 of which you may have already seen, also has parts 2 and 3 to continue the story. The videos show what might happen were Skyrim set in real life 2012.

Part 2

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Part 3

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Watch them all and more at the Grosjean brother's youtube channel....

Dark Souls supported in Nexus Mod Manager

It is with great pleasure that I announce that the latest version of the Nexus Mod Manager (NMM) now has support for Dark Souls modding, straight off of Dark Souls Nexus. What does this mean? In a nut-shell, you can now click the “Download with manager” button and have NMM automatically download the file in question and install it in to the proper texture over-ride directory, with no hassle.

As Dark Souls modding requires Durante’s DSFix utility in order to work, we’ve progr...