In January 2017, a Fallout 4 mod on Nexus Mods was covered in the Daily Express, with other Fallout 4 mods reported on by WWG, Paste Magazine, the Christian Times, and PC Gamer. In 2016, Forbes praised the 'Alternate Start - Live Another Life' mod posted to Nexus for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Special Edition in a feature article. The website's hosting and publication of various mods has been covered in the gaming and computer press. Mods for The Witcher have been built for improving immersion, and Nexus Mods is highly noted for its support of the game The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and is often regarded as the largest website supporting modifications for games in The Elder Scrolls series of games, with sites like PC Gamer and Kotaku referencing Nexus in multiple articles regarding modifications for The Elder Scrolls series. Mods hosted on the site can change games in a number of ways, from adding a first-person perspective to adding fully developed worldspaces with voice-acted quests. As of 2021, Nexus Mods is the largest gaming modification sites on the internet, ranking at #1090 in the Alexa Rankings, with over 4.5 billion downloads since its initial launch. The redesign saw the introduction of a responsive viewport allowing seamless browsing on a mobile device, an intuitive navigation bar and the ability to pin games to your profile.Īs of April 2021, Nexus Mods has a reported 26 Million Members.

In 2016, following an extensive survey of existing users, the website received its biggest redesign to date. In December 2015, the website reported a possible security breach of account names, and recommended that its members change their passwords.įinancial information was not breached, as the website uses PayPal for all transactions. Revenue instead came from premium memberships, with the site otherwise free. Scott indicated in 2013 that the Nexus sites would remain free of corporate investment in the foreseeable future, also avoiding direct ads. This resulted in more than 200 additional games being supported by early 2017. Scott made use of the TESSource website with his new venture. Scott soon became tired with the revenue of the websites being split when he was operating the websites by himself, and made the decision to break away from TESSource in 2007 and founded his own website under the name of TESNexus.

After the success of Morrowind Chronicles, Scott and the friend he was working alongside founded a company by the name of GamingSource and created the website TESSource, which allowed users to upload their modifications and content for games in The Elder Scrolls video game series. Nexus Mods was founded by Robin Scott and a friend in August 2001 as a fan site for the Bethesda Softworks game The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind under the name of Morrowind Chronicles.

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