Dragon Age III announced

On May 19th, Bioware’s senior director Alistair McNally tweeted I'm looking for exceptional environment artists to join me at #BioWare Edmonton, Canada to work on #DragonAge3 #gamejobs #jobs #3D #artists This is great news for everyone who enjoys the Dragon Age games, because it means that a third installment of the RPG is on its way. Since Dragon Age II was released a little over a year after Dragon Age: Origins, you can most likely expect to see Dragon Age III released late 2012 or early...

Bethesda calls Skyrim "too big"

Skyrim's game director and producer Todd Howard jokingly stated in an interview with the Norwegian magazine Gamer.no that The game is actually too big. Not that the map will be much bigger than Oblivion's. According to the interview the maps are about the same size. Howard said If you put the maps on top of each other it is about as big as its predecessor. But Skyrim is different because of all the mountains that form our routes. The terrain makes it smaller in practice, but you spend more t...

Honest Hearts released today.

The next Fallout: New Vegas DLC expansion pack, Honest Hearts, is now out today for the PC and Xbox 360. The Playstation 3 release date has yet to be announced, however. Honest Hearts takes the player on a journey to Utah's Zion National Park, the same location hinted at through the snowglobe found in Dead Money's .BSA files. Honest Hearts will feature ten new weapons (including the Tomahawk and Firebomb), six new clothing items, and five new perks. Honest Hearts costs 10 USD....

Interview with Somgeuy2000, winner of the April FOTM contest

Somgeuy2000 won the April File of the Month Contest for New Vegas Nexus with his mod, New Vegas Bounties II. I had the wonderful opportunity to conduct an interview with him, which you can read below. Congratulations to someguy2000 on his victory! Remember to vote for this month's FOTM so you can see your favorite modder featured here on the news. Q:Tell us about yourself. What are some of your hobbies outside of gaming? A: I'm a college student living in Austin, Texas. Outside of gamin...

Man goes on real world Fallout New Vegas tour

News.com.au has a story about Chris Worth, a Londoner who took pictures of real life inspirations for places of interest in the game. THREE thousand dollars, a week's preparation and five days of driving through the desert to visit dozens of obscure locations. That's what it took for London copywriter Chris Worth to go on the video game road trip of a lifetime. Inspired by futuristic role-playing game Fallout: New Vegas, Mr Worth set out to explore the Mojave Desert and discover just h...

Honest Hearts official trailer and new screenshots released

Bethesda has released the official trailer for the next DLC, Honest Hearts, which will be available on May 17th. The short 90 second trailer shows brief looks at the Burned Man and some of the new weapons, NPCs/enemies, and environments. The Burned Man speaks at the beginning and end surrounding footage mostly focusing on combat, gunfire, explosions, and fire. Watch the trailer below or on YouTube. _ppZHcOf7lI Bethesda also published some new Honest Hearts screenshots....

Private forum for recognised mod authors

Something that a few mod authors have brought up recently is that a lot of the staff team here at the Nexus aren't as active within the modding community as we have been in the past. We've been moderating as per normal and dealing with all the reports that come our way but a few folks have felt saddened that some of us haven't been around doing other stuff within the community as much as in the past. It's true many of us have been swallowed up in various real-life and work issues recently. Hopef...

Interview with Tomerk, April's FotM winner (Liquid Water)

Tomerk's Liquid Water won April's File of the Month. There is an issue with the TESNexus voting which is currently preventing April's votes from being finalized, but Liquid Water was (and still is) the top vote earner with a current total of 58 votes. Update: That issue is now fixed; Liquid Water ended up with 59 votes. Continuing with the monthly feature, Tomerk has responded to our interview questions. You can read his responses below. Q: What was your inspiration for creating Liqu...

Bethesda begins first Skyrim fan interview

Bethesda has launched the first Skyrim "fan interview" in which fans submit questions for Todd Howard and other Bethesda employees to answer. Questions can be submitted on the BethBlog, the "Elder Council" (Bethesda's Facebook page for the Elder Scrolls), or the official Bethesda forums. Questions will be answered "in a few weeks" but no specific date has been announced yet. As an example for those wondering what type of questions get answered, you can read the fan interview from Oblivion....

Top list filters by Dragon Age: Origins and Dragon Age 2

Hello fellow Dragon Age modders and mod users. As you know I have refrained from releasing a separate site for Dragon Age 2 until BioWare release a tool set for the game. If they release a tool set for the game. This however hasn't stopped many modders from working on mods anyway as there are currently more than 500 available for download right now. In an effort to help reduce the confusion between the two games being on one site I've modified the Top 100 scripts on the site. There are now fi...

More DLC announced, Honest Hearts coming May 17

Bethesda has provided more information about the next three DLC: Honest Hearts, Old World Blues, and Lonesome Road. Honest Hearts will be released on May 17th. Honest Hearts sends you on an expedition to Zion National Park in Utah, but your caravan is of course ambushed along the way. Later the Courier becomes involved in a war between a "New Canaanite missionary" and the Burned Man. The first official screenshot from Honest Hearts has also been released along with the announcement. Next, ...

Gameswelt Interview with Todd Howard

Recently, an interview at Gameswelt (I believe its German) with Todd Howard has him talking all about the Elder Scrolls. Todd says in the first twenty seconds that the feeling they were going for with Morrowind was that you were a stranger in a strange land. For Skyrim, he says that feels wrong. After Morrowind, they wanted to go back to a more “classic fantasy game” for Oblivion. He then goes on to explain how between Arena to Oblivion, Morrowind is the odd one out; the alien in the series....

Lay-offs at Obsidian

VG247 reports that several (former) Obsidian employees have been tweeting about their sacking. According to a tweet from Akil Hooper a producer and designer who has been at the firm 11 years survived seven different round of lay-offs, but sadly not the eighth: 11 years, nearly a dozen shipped titles, Designer, Lead, Producer. 1 canceled game, survived 7 layoffs, 8th got me. Not a bad track record. According to the forum post on Obsidian which gathered all these tweets, reports that it...

New interview with Todd Howard

A reporter for Machinima, Rob Smith, got a first look at Skyrim earler this week. He interviewed Todd Howard and got a few answers on what it means to be a Dragonborn, technology, the world, and more. The interview can be found here. ...

New Vegas patch 1.3 released, G.E.C.K. temporarily broken

Fallout: New Vegas has been updated to version 1.3. The patch includes the previously described balance changes plus unexplained "optimizations and stability improvements." Edit: As mentioned in the comments, the patch will prevent the G.E.C.K. from functioning (cannot create, load, or edit mods). We will have to wait for an updated G.E.C.K. to be made available. Update: The G.E.C.K. can now be downloaded from Bethesda's site....

Small amount of Skyrim footage leaked

One of the reporters who was invited to the BFG 2011 press event captured several seconds of Skyrim footage. It can be found here. A slowed down version has also been uploaded to Youtube. The footage shows the player approaching an alter in a frozen location. As he approaches the alter the lid of a tomb blows off (what emerges is probably a Draugh priest mentioned in the print previews)....

Honest Hearts promotional banner found

AVeryNaughtyMan from The Vault has news about a promotional piece for the next New Vegas DLC Honest Hearts available from the Xbox Live Marketplace.



A promotional image for the upcoming Honest Hearts DLC has been found on Xbox live. Users can find the image by searching for Fallout: New Vegas on the Game Marketplace, and then selecting Fallout: New Vegas Teaser Trailer (HD). The picture in the top-right corner will change to a banner showing the Honest Hearts logo and ...

New demonstration relayed to players via gaming press

Bethesda Softworks held something called a BFG 2011 press event where they showed off a Skyrim demo to the gaming press. This resulted in a heap of previews being released by a number of gaming sites. A recording of the demo has not been released for viewing by the general public to make up their own minds. IGN gives a general overview of new and already known features. You'll still get to pick from one of 10 fantasy races, customize your physical appearance, and select a gender, but after...

Patch coming Monday for PC, balance changes revealed

Jason Bergman (Bethesda Senior Producer for F:NV) has again revealed more information about the next Fallout: New Vegas patch. In addition to announcing that the patch will be coming for the PC version on Monday (consoles later), Bergman posted a list of the balance changes which will be included. Edit: To clarify, these balance changes are one part of the patch which will also include stability and optimization improvements, bug fixes, etc. Guns: Automatic Guns - SMGs, the Assault ...

Bethesda would like to see mods happen for consoles

A news article started at Edge that has now made the rounds across the internet has brought to light Bethesda's wish to see mods for Skyrim made available for the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions of the game. Naturally, Todd Howard's words have been taken out of context and stretched beyond recognition on many forums, but here's the jist of it: It works on all the consoles. As far as the 360 and PS3, right now there’s not an avenue for us to make that available, but we’d very much like to fi...