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Nexus Mods
Nexus Mods is a website that hosts computer game modifications and other user-created content related to video game modding. It is one of the largest gaming mod sites on the web, with 30 million registered members and 3146 supported games as of October 2024, with a single forum and a wiki for site- and mod-related topics.
Founded in 2001 as Morrowind Chronicles, a The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind fan site, it became Morrowind Source with the addition of hosting mods for Morrowind. It continued to rebrand as it expanded to support more games, as TESSource, TESNexus, the Nexus, and finally Nexus Mods. The hosting and publication of particular mods by the site has been covered in the gaming and computer press.
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 "Morrowind Chronicles". 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. 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. Scott made use of the TESSource website with his new venture. This resulted in more than 200 additional games being supported by early 2017.[failed verification]
Scott indicated in 2013 that the Nexus sites would remain free of corporate investment in the foreseeable future, also avoiding direct ads. Revenue instead came from premium memberships, with the site otherwise free. In December 2015, the website reported a possible security breach of account names, and recommended that its members change their passwords. Financial information was not breached, as the website uses PayPal for all transactions.
In 2016, following an extensive survey of existing users, the website received its biggest redesign to date. 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 the user's profile. As of April 2021, Nexus Mods has a reported 26 million members. As of 2021, Nexus Mods is the largest gaming modification site on the internet, ranking at #1090 in the Alexa Rankings, with over 4.5 billion downloads since its initial launch.
In June 2021, in a series of announcements in Nexus's developer forums followed by a lengthy public announcement on July 1, Nexus Mods stated that they would no longer be deleting mods at mod authors' request, but instead retaining archival copies for use in a new Collections feature. The initial announcements sparked complaints by numerous mod authors, causing Nexus to allow a one-month grace period for mod authors to either accede to the policy change or pull all of their mods from the site. The response by mod-authors was mixed, with some announcing that they would be pulling or ceasing support for their mods, while others supported the move.
In August 2022, An account with the nickname "Mike Hawk" who was labeled by Nexus Mods as a sockpuppet account for Internet trolling uploaded a texture modification for the Windows release of Marvel's Spider-Man called "Non-Newtonian New York" replacing the rainbow flag with the flag of the United States, with the description "changes the stupid pride flags with american flags" [sic] in an apparent effort to sow controversy. The modification was removed by Nexus Mods moderators shortly after, but not without garnering controversy from some users who were displeased with the ban; the site later went on to state that "we are for inclusivity, we are for diversity. If we think someone is uploading a mod on our site with the intent to deliberately be against inclusivity and/or diversity then we will take action against it", also frankly advising users who disagreed with the ban to "move on". A similar announcement was also made by ModDB when a Twitter user informed the site that the flag modification was also mirrored on ModDB, which the site's moderators promptly removed.
On April 23, 2025, a mod was released for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered that changes the game's labeling of body types from "body type 1" and "body type 2" to "male" and "female", like how it was in the original game. The mod did not alter anything else in the game. Nexus Mods moderators removed the mod soon after its release and banned the creator, citing "posting an intentionally antagonistic mod with intention to evade the rules" as the reason for the ban. The mod was later restored with a community notice, stating that the mod was not taken down for its content and that the uploader "expressed an intent to incite drama and endorsed an external site explicitly designed to host inflammatory content."
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Nexus Mods
Nexus Mods is a website that hosts computer game modifications and other user-created content related to video game modding. It is one of the largest gaming mod sites on the web, with 30 million registered members and 3146 supported games as of October 2024, with a single forum and a wiki for site- and mod-related topics.
Founded in 2001 as Morrowind Chronicles, a The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind fan site, it became Morrowind Source with the addition of hosting mods for Morrowind. It continued to rebrand as it expanded to support more games, as TESSource, TESNexus, the Nexus, and finally Nexus Mods. The hosting and publication of particular mods by the site has been covered in the gaming and computer press.
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 "Morrowind Chronicles". 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. 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. Scott made use of the TESSource website with his new venture. This resulted in more than 200 additional games being supported by early 2017.[failed verification]
Scott indicated in 2013 that the Nexus sites would remain free of corporate investment in the foreseeable future, also avoiding direct ads. Revenue instead came from premium memberships, with the site otherwise free. In December 2015, the website reported a possible security breach of account names, and recommended that its members change their passwords. Financial information was not breached, as the website uses PayPal for all transactions.
In 2016, following an extensive survey of existing users, the website received its biggest redesign to date. 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 the user's profile. As of April 2021, Nexus Mods has a reported 26 million members. As of 2021, Nexus Mods is the largest gaming modification site on the internet, ranking at #1090 in the Alexa Rankings, with over 4.5 billion downloads since its initial launch.
In June 2021, in a series of announcements in Nexus's developer forums followed by a lengthy public announcement on July 1, Nexus Mods stated that they would no longer be deleting mods at mod authors' request, but instead retaining archival copies for use in a new Collections feature. The initial announcements sparked complaints by numerous mod authors, causing Nexus to allow a one-month grace period for mod authors to either accede to the policy change or pull all of their mods from the site. The response by mod-authors was mixed, with some announcing that they would be pulling or ceasing support for their mods, while others supported the move.
In August 2022, An account with the nickname "Mike Hawk" who was labeled by Nexus Mods as a sockpuppet account for Internet trolling uploaded a texture modification for the Windows release of Marvel's Spider-Man called "Non-Newtonian New York" replacing the rainbow flag with the flag of the United States, with the description "changes the stupid pride flags with american flags" [sic] in an apparent effort to sow controversy. The modification was removed by Nexus Mods moderators shortly after, but not without garnering controversy from some users who were displeased with the ban; the site later went on to state that "we are for inclusivity, we are for diversity. If we think someone is uploading a mod on our site with the intent to deliberately be against inclusivity and/or diversity then we will take action against it", also frankly advising users who disagreed with the ban to "move on". A similar announcement was also made by ModDB when a Twitter user informed the site that the flag modification was also mirrored on ModDB, which the site's moderators promptly removed.
On April 23, 2025, a mod was released for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered that changes the game's labeling of body types from "body type 1" and "body type 2" to "male" and "female", like how it was in the original game. The mod did not alter anything else in the game. Nexus Mods moderators removed the mod soon after its release and banned the creator, citing "posting an intentionally antagonistic mod with intention to evade the rules" as the reason for the ban. The mod was later restored with a community notice, stating that the mod was not taken down for its content and that the uploader "expressed an intent to incite drama and endorsed an external site explicitly designed to host inflammatory content."