PC modding repository Nexus Mods has a new owner

There are much than 100,000 mods connected Nexus Mods for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim – Special Edition.

Nexus Mods, a website known for hosting mods for thousands of PC games, has been handed implicit to caller ownership, according to erstwhile proprietor Robin “Dark0ne” Scott.

“After months of meetings, face-to-face talks, and a full batch of psyche searching, I americium thrilled to accidental that I genuinely judge I person recovered the nonstop close radical for the task,” Scott says successful a station published connected Monday.

Scott, who launched the task successful 2001, says that the tract “has been my full big life” and that “the strain of being liable for the behemoth I created” had taken a toll. He realized helium had been burning retired and that helium needed to bring successful caller leadership.

Scott didn’t specify who the caller proprietor oregon owners are, and the institution didn’t instantly reply to a petition for remark sent to its enactment email address. However, users volition beryllium seeing much of 2 people, who Scott identifies arsenic “Foledinho (Victor)” and “Rapsak (Marinus),” arsenic they person “come connected committee to pb this adjacent chapter,” Scott says. “They’ve got heavy roots successful gaming, tech, and astir importantly, they springiness a damn; astir the site, the community, and the aboriginal we’re trying to physique here.”

While the tract has changed hands, Scott says that “this isn’t immoderate firm ‘exit’ oregon a backroom deal.” Instead, “this is maine doing thing I astir apt should’ve done years ago: taking attraction of myself. Reclaiming immoderate headspace. And yet letting spell of the thought that I person to bash everything and beryllium liable for everything myself.”

Scott volition besides inactive beryllium a presence. “I’ll inactive beryllium annoying radical connected the Mod Author Discord, lurking connected the forums, and sticking my chemoreceptor into assemblage matters erstwhile I can’t assistance myself,” helium says. And he’ll enactment with the squad to “help usher the wide absorption of the site.”