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Lots of Skyrim Mods Already Available via Steam Workshop

Barely has the Steam Workshop functionality been added to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and already lots of intrepid modders have released add-ons for the massive RPG through the system, after tweaking them with the Creation Kit that was just released yesterday. While Skyrim impressed through great gameplay and story,...

8 February 2012
10:21 GMT

Reminder: Skyrim Price Cut on Steam Lasts Until Thursday

Bethesda is celebrating the release of its Creation Kit and official High Resolution Texture Pack for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim by slashing the prices of the actual game and its predecessors, Oblivion and Morrowind, for a limited time. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim delighted millions of players and, according to Bet...

8 February 2012
02:39 GMT

Skyrim Creation Kit Arrives Tuesday, February 7, Alongside Big Surprise

Bethesda has just confirmed that the Creation Kit for its massively successful The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim role playing game is set to finally appear on Tuesday, February 7.Skyrim was one of the best games released in 2011 and a key role in its success was played by the modding community, which immediately started ma...

4 February 2012
05:31 GMT

Splash Damage Prepares for Big Announcements on Both PC and Home Consoles

Splash Damage has not made any official announcements since the launch of Brink in 2011, but that will change shortly as the developer plans to make 2012 the most important year in its history, with video games set to be unveiled for both the PC and home consoles. Paul Wedgwood, the chief executive officer at Splash...

25 January 2012
09:08 GMT

Fallout: New Vegas Ultimate Edition Trailer Revealed

Bethesda has just posted a brand new trailer for its upcoming Fallout: New Vegas Ultimate Edition, a re-release of the impressive role playing game released a couple of years ago. Fallout: New Vegas was Softpedia’s Game of the Year back in 2010, as we were thoroughly impressed with its sprawling world and the ...

23 January 2012
02:33 GMT

Stay in Skyrim Forever with Special Windows Software and Theme Combination

There are millions of gamers out there who’ve fallen in love with The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Bethesda’s latest role playing game, but DeviantArt user Axerron has taken this love to an extreme, going so far as to make a special theme for Windows operating systems that mimics the interface of the game. S...

13 January 2012
10:11 GMT

id Software Lays Off Staff, Doom 4 Development Unaffected

id Software has confirmed that it has laid off a number of employees recently, although it refused to say exactly how many people were let go.Bethesda, the parent company of id Software, has said that the development process for the upcoming Doom 4 was not affected and that the restructuring process was not in any wa...

11 January 2012
16:31 GMT

Bethesda Has Full Rights to Fallout MMO, Plans Internal Development

We already know that video game companies Bethesda and Interplay have settled a long running lawsuit linked to the Fallout franchise and the two sides have recently revealed that the rights to create a Fallout based MMO have not reverted to Bethesda, the company which also holds the right to other genres linked to th...

10 January 2012
17:41 GMT

Reports: Bethesda and Interplay Settle Fallout Legal Battle

The Duck and Cover fan site is reporting that the long running legal battle between video game companies Bethesda and Interplay over the rights to the Fallout series has been finally settled, although the two companies have not yet made the decision public.A court date for the lawsuit was set to take place during the...

3 January 2012
08:51 GMT

GOTY 2011 Best Game of the Year – The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

What the last game where the number of locations one can discover and explore is bigger than the number of quests one can do? The last game where you as a gamer gradually develop the power to fight and destroy a dragon? The last game where you can become anything as long as you are willing to practice?These are just ...

31 December 2011
17:01 GMT

GOTY 2011 Best Role Playing Game – The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

We have created a rather long series of Game Diaries for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and even after writing a few thousand words on the game that Bethesda launched we have failed to address all the story, gameplay, character and world elements that make it the Best Role Playing Game of the Year 2011.The Elder Scrolls...

28 December 2011
18:01 GMT

How to Use the Skyrim Console to Get Past Broken Quests on the PC

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is a great game but, like with most titles of such a massive size that have hundreds of quests, thousands of NPCs and a huge amount of sub systems, glitches happen. Some are hilarious, others quite serious, but there’s nothing more aggravating than seeing a quest you’re trying ...

23 December 2011
23:31 GMT

GOTY 2011 Gameplay Runner-Up – The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

I will start talking about why The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is the second best game of 2011 in terms of gameplay by pointing out that in many ways this is a game which could have used a lot more polish when it comes to its mechanics.The swordplay is improved over Oblivion but could have used a little more attention, s...

23 December 2011
09:20 GMT

BioWare Admires Skyrim, Says the Next Dragon Age Will Please Gamers

BioWare, the studio behind cult classics like Baldur’s Gate but also newer franchises like Mass Effect, has talked about fantasy role playing games, especially since Bethesda’s recent Skyrim has blown its Dragon Age II title, which appeared earlier this year, out of the proverbial water.Dragon Age: Origin...

21 December 2011
06:31 GMT

Skyrim 1.3.1 PC Patch Fixes 4GB Large Address Aware Issues

Bethesda has just deployed a small update for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim on the PC platform via Steam, which finally adds the 4GB Tuning, aka the large address aware feature to the massive role playing game.While Skyrim delighted millions of gamers from all around the world, shipping well over 10 million units, the ...

20 December 2011
14:02 GMT

Skyrim Ships 10 Million Units, Is the Fastest Selling Steam Game Ever

Bethesda has just published a brand new update on the performance of its The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim role playing game, confirming it’s shipped over 10 million units across the world and that the game is now the fastest selling title ever to be released on the Steam digital distribution network.Skyrim has been ...

16 December 2011
15:41 GMT

Skyrim Multiplayer Mode Now Available Through a PC Mod

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim has just received a multiplayer mode, although it’s not anything official from Bethesda, as an intrepid player released a special Skyrim Online mod for the PC edition of the game.Skyrim was released last month and, since then, has delighted millions of players from all around the wor...

16 December 2011
10:01 GMT

Skyrim Developer Still Not Interested in Making a Multiplayer Game or an MMO

Bethesda still isn’t convinced that it should make a massively multiplayer online game, largely because it’s now focusing on the recently released Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim role playing game, trying to support it with new updates and thinking about any possible DLC for it.Bethesda has made a name for itself...

12 December 2011
18:21 GMT

Bethesda Prepares Skyrim Expansions, Might Keep Some Exploits

Video game developer Bethesda has reiterated its position that all downloadable content for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim will be story focused and massive, although the team is not ready to talk yet about exact content and about a possible launch date.Todd Howard, who is the game director for the latest The Elder Scro...

12 December 2011
16:31 GMT

How to Improve Skyrim PS3 Performance and Avoid Lag Issues

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim on the PlayStation 3 isn’t exactly the best kind of experience, as the game is plagued by massive lag and many freezes once the player’s save game files reach a certain size. In order to improve the title’s performance at least until a new patch arrives, Bethesda has now ...

9 December 2011
07:01 GMT

Skyrim PC Patch 1.3 Still Doesn’t Eliminate Crashes to Desktop

Bethesda released a brand new patch for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim on the PC yesterday, taking it to version 1.3, finally resolving some of the serious issues that appeared after the previous update, 1.2, was released last week.Sadly, while quite a lot of glitches and problems were resolved by the new patch, the gam...

8 December 2011
07:31 GMT

Skyrim’s PlayStation 3 Save Game Lag Issues Explained by Fallout: New Vegas Developer

Obsidian Entertainment’s Joshua Sawyer, who worked with Bethesda on last year’s Fallout: New Vegas, has shed some light on the save game lag and freeze issues encountered by Skyrim owners on the PlayStation 3 console, saying that it boils down to an issue with the engine and the divided memory of the Sony...

6 December 2011
17:31 GMT

Weekend Reading: Skyrim Makes Hundred Hour Games Seem Dangerous

I think I might be an addict, not in the traditional sense of the word where my neurons are linked to a pleasurable chemical, but I have no other good term to define the relationship that I have developed with The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.This game launched on November 1 of this year and I started my playthrough at ab...

3 December 2011
06:01 GMT

New Skyrim Patch Coming Next Week, Bethesda Promises More Updates

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim will be getting a fresh ‘incremental’ patch next week, as Bethesda has finally cleared a few things up, just as update 1.2 broke the game for quite a lot of players across the PC, PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360 platforms.Skyrim captured the hearts and minds of millions of gamers sin...

2 December 2011
06:26 GMT

Bethesda Will Release Creation Kit for Skyrim During January 2012

Bethesda, the developers of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim have finally issued their first reaction after the launch of the broken 1.2 patch, telling the player base that they will continue to deliver patches for the game and that they will launch a Creation Kit in January for PC gamers.The company is promising to launc...

2 December 2011
04:22 GMT

How To Prevent Skyrim From Updating Itself With Patch 1.2

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim finally received its long awaited patch 1.2 yesterday but, from what we could gather from the comments we received from our various articles, it doesn’t really fix anything that important, instead just resolving some obscure issues that were hardly felt by players of the massive role...

1 December 2011
05:36 GMT

Skyrim Is First Western Developed Game to Get Perfect Score from Famitsu

The Japanese magazine Famitsu, long seen as the barometer for gaming in the country, has awarded a perfect 40 out 40 score to the Bethesda developed The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.The open world first person action adventure game is the first one to be developed in the West and get the score and the 17th one in the 25 y...

29 November 2011
10:39 GMT

Skyrim Patch 1.2 Out Tomorrow on PC and Xbox 360, Full Details Available

After owners of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim on the PlayStation 3 were able to get the long awaited patch for the game yesterday, Bethesda has now confirmed that update 1.2 will arrive onto the PC and Xbox 360 platforms tomorrow, November 30.Skyrim was hailed as one of the best games of the year after its release earl...

29 November 2011
08:19 GMT

Weekend Reading: The Modern Warfare 3 – Skyrim Duality

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 has the biggest launch for every entertainment product in history this fall and is on track on beating every record conceivable before the end of the year, with more than 1 billion dollars projected as generated revenue.The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim also had a good launch day, with sales ...

26 November 2011
07:01 GMT

The 10 Most Impressive Skyrim Mods So Far

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim has been released for a few weeks but already it’s gained a cult-like following, with millions of gamers from all around the world enjoying the stunning role playing game made by Bethesda. While the standard experience is already extremely impressive, the game’s PC version w...

25 November 2011
23:01 GMT

10 Skyrim Console Commands That Will Not Make You Feel Like a Cheater

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is a great game and the most complex to be released this year and with complexity comes a number of possible glitches, small annoyances that might negatively affect the experience of playing it.A lot of them can be addressed using console commands, accessed by using the ` key, without actu...

25 November 2011
21:41 GMT

Skyrim Diary – All the Glitches in the World

Developer, publishers and even gamers these days have become obsessed with glitches and with eliminating them as quickly and thoroughly as possible from their gaming experiences.But The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is good example of how glitches can make a game special and how imperfections can add a sense of place to a ...

22 November 2011
19:21 GMT

Skyrim Diary - It's a True 'Watercooler' Gaming Experience

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim has been out for 10 days or so and, since then, we've published quite a lot of content regarding the complex role playing game from Bethesda.While I'm the first to admit that I wasn't that interested in Skyrim, even if I loved both Fallout 3 and New Vegas, I'm definitel...

21 November 2011
06:00 GMT

Skyrim Diary – Exploration and Location Crack

Skyrim has no mini-map; instead, it offers players a band at the top of their game screen. This "map-band" allows them to see the cardinal directions and a number of undiscovered locations around them, in addition to the quest marker for their current adventure and, possibly, a custom location.This simple mechanism c...

18 November 2011
18:11 GMT

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (PC)

I have reached Windhelm for the first time and I can feel my weary bones aching for some fire and some good drink and food, preferably in the company of a bard and some townsfolk. After some R&R I also plan to visit the local merchants and dump some of the useless loot that clogs my inventory and see if maybe they ha...

17 November 2011
09:39 GMT

Skyrim Diary - The Love/Hate Relationship with Lydia

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim has been out for almost a week and I've spent quite a lot of hours with the massive role playing game created by Bethesda doing all sorts of things, from fighting with swords or magic to crafting potions, creating or improving my own weapons and armor, or just reading the hundreds of ...

17 November 2011
09:31 GMT

Family Answers Bethesda Challenge and Names Son Dovahkiin

During February 2011, when Skyrim was still nine months away and only a small number of people had seen the game in action, Bethesda announced a challenge for the most fanatical of fans: have a baby on launch date, November 11, and then name him Dovahkiin in order to get free titles from the publisher for the rest of...

17 November 2011
07:01 GMT

Skyrim Sells More than 3.5 Million Units in 48 Hours

Video game publisher Bethesda Softworks has announced that its latest release, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, has managed to sell more than 3.5 million copies across all platforms during its first 48 hours of presence on store shelves.7 million units of the game have been shipped to retailers during the first week of t...

17 November 2011
03:47 GMT

Skyrim Will Get Multiplatform Patch Soon

Video game developer and publisher Bethesda has announced that it plans to launch a new patch for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim shortly, fixing many of the bugs and the glitches that gamers have been reporting since last week's Friday launch.Peter Hines, who is the main executive in charge of public relations at B...

16 November 2011
04:31 GMT

New Skyrim Glitches Videos Show Flying Horses, Endless Falling, and More

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is available for less than a week but already gamers are sharing the glitches they've experienced throughout their playthroughs through videos hosted on YouTube and, while some are quite serious, most of the times they're pretty hilarious as well.Skyrim was eagerly awaited by lot...

15 November 2011
15:31 GMT

Installing Skyrim on Xbox 360 Causes Low Resolution Texture Problem, Patch Coming

Bethesda has acknowledged an issue with the Xbox 360 version of its The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim title, warning customers not to install the game on the hard drive of the console, as an issue with the streaming systems used by the RPG causes textures to be loaded with a lower than normal resolution.Skyrim was deployed...

14 November 2011
14:21 GMT

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Gets Mod to Eliminate Spiders

Even before The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim was launched a group of players announced that they would be unable to buy and play the game because the game had a very realistic portrayal of spiders which triggered their arachnophobia.On the good old PC their problems are now solved because one of the first things that mod ...

14 November 2011
05:14 GMT

Skyrim Will Offer Committed Players Infinite Quests

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is set to be launched today and might just be the longest gaming experience launched this year, with one leading developer working on it saying that the game will basically offer infinite quests for all those who have the patience to play through all the content that the developers at Beth...

11 November 2011
02:29 GMT

Bethesda Does Not Fear Piracy, Still Loves the PC

Pete Hines, who is the vice president in charge of marketing at Bethesda, talked to Joystiq and said, “From a technical standpoint, yes, the PC is a headache. It just is. A million different possibilities of hardware, drivers, etc. As you saw with Rage, all it takes is some bad video card drivers and years of h...

10 November 2011
15:01 GMT

Street Date for Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Broken in Australia

A number of retailers in Australia are reported to have broken the launch date for the role playing game The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, prompting major chains that are also associated with video games to also begin selling the Bethesda made and published title.At the moment reports on forums and on Twitter from individ...

10 November 2011
03:55 GMT

Fallout: New Vegas Ultimate Edition Arrives This February

Great news for bargain hunters, as Bethesda and Obsidian Entertainment have confirmed that a special Fallout: New Vegas Ultimate Edition will be released next February, bundling together the full post apocalyptic role playing game, as well as all of the DLC released for it up until now.Fallout: New Vegas was Softpedi...

3 November 2011
13:01 GMT

Bethesda Releases Behind the Wall Trailer for Skyrim

Video game developer and publisher Bethesda has launched a short sequence taken from its Behind the Wall: The Making of Skyrim, which will be included in the Collector's Edition package for the upcoming The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.The entire feature will allow gamers who are interested in the game universe to se...

3 November 2011
09:26 GMT

Skyrim Enemy Leveling Will Be Close to Fallout 3

How enemy leveling was handled has been one of the big discussion points when Oblivion was launched but the developers at Bethesda are hoping that the new system will create much less of a controversy.Speaking to PC Gamer about the difficulty scaling that will be used in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Todd Howard, who i...

28 October 2011
02:56 GMT

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim PC Requirements Now Available

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim has just received the minimum and recommended PC requirements that need to be met by those who want to experience the new role playing game from Bethesda.Skyrim was announced late last year and, since then, has certainly made lots of gamers extremely interested in it, thanks to its new eng...

26 October 2011
03:04 GMT

Rage (Xbox 360)

They brought us the Wolfenstein 3D, they brought us Doom and most importantly they brought us Quake. Now the legendary id Software returns with a game and an engine that will "blow your mind". Graphics never seen before in an open world shooter, mixed with awesome racing and post-apocalyptic scenery will allegedly m...

24 October 2011
11:28 GMT


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