Poor PlayStation 3-packing Dragonborn. Though the third piece of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim DLC is approaching next week, technical problems have kept all add-ons off PS3 so far. Sony and Bethesda have joined forces to solve the issues and while we still have no solid word on when DLC might come to PS3, Bethesda has assured that it hasn't given up.
A naughty Dragonborn is on the loose in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, slaying dragons and sucking up their souls to amass power, and it's not you. Bethesda today released the first trailer for open-world RPG's 'Dragonborn' DLC, teasing new areas, enemies, and, yes, riding dragons.
In a double-barrelled blast of Skyrim news, invites are now going out for the Xbox 360-exclusive beta test of the 'Dawnguard' DLC, while the patch which introduced mounted combat has now arrived on PC. Don't get too excited about your chances of getting into the beta, though.
The Elder Scrolls Online has been in the making since Oblivion launched, and while developing an MMO is an enormous task in and of itself, apparently so is finding a suitable and marketable name for the game.
Bethesda has finally announced the first expansion pack for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Titled Dawnguard, the DLC will arrive first on Xbox 360 this summer as part of Bethesda's exclusivity agreement with Microsoft. No word on a PC or PS3 release yet; however the original agreement specified a 30-day exclusivity window.
As promised, Bethesda's Kinect-powered update to Skyrim is going live tomorrow. The patch will enable a variety of voice commands, such as quick access to the map and saving. However, the most exciting aspect of the new functionality is the ability to shout commands--in English or Dragon Language. You'll be able to yell "Unrelenting Force" to your Kinect sensor. Or, if you're wearing the appropriate attire, you'll be able to yell "Fus Ro Dah."
But what else can you do? Bethesda has released the complete list of commands for you to peruse.
Rumors have been flying of new DLC for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, fueled even more by Bethesda PR VP Pete Hines tweeting yesterday that more information on the content may be coming next week. But an intrepid Skyrim forum dweller may have uncovered more intricate details.
Update: Human Head stopped working on Prey 2 in November, source says. (Story)
No new information had been available on Human Head's Prey 2 sequel for several months now, leading to plenty of speculation that the game had been cancelled. But publisher Bethesda has finally put those rumors to rest, saying the game is still in development.
Kinect-powered Dragon Shouts are officially coming to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. The idea was originally whipped together during Bethesda's game jam week, but has been expanded to give voice control over everything from follower commands to quicksaves, and will be coming to Xbox 360 in a free title update later this month.
PC players got it first, but now console players of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim can get their kill on with the new kill camera views, along with a few other changes and bug fixes in the new 1.5 patch being released today.
If The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and its host of NPCs have taught us anything, it's that taking "an arrow to the knee" is a surefire way to cut one's adventuring days short. Bethesda has announced that the 1.5 title update for the game is now available in beta form via Steam, adding (among other things) "swords to the chest," "daggers to the face," and "being blasted off a cliff" to the roster of career-ending injuries that can now be inflicted on Skyrim's denizens with cinematic flair.
Dragon mounts, home-building, Kinect-powered shouts, werebears, spears, and other strange and wonderful experiments were whipped up for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim by the folks at Bethesda Game Studios after finishing their fantasy RPG. The team took a week out for a 'game jam,' toying with ideas which may or may not ever be released officially.
Bethesda had promised a surprise alongside the launch of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim's PC mod Creation Kit, and it did indeed arrive today. The PC release now supports an official high-resolution texture pack. But there's something else too--a new friend in the form of Portal 2's adorable Space Sphere. On top of that, Skyrim's on sale on Steam, down to $40.
As promised, a beta version of patch 1.4 for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is now available through Steam for everyone who fancies trying it. As well as heaps of fixes for bugs and crashes, the patch brings performance and memory optimizations.
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim's promised Creation Kit and Steam Workshop are now nearly complete, pending some testing with Valve and the game's modding community. Developer Bethesda Game Studios also reports that the game's next major patch (v.1.4) is also currently undergoing testing for all three platforms, and is expected to release for the PC version next week, when it will also be sent off to console manufacturers for certification.
Bethesda snuck out a small PC patch for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim yesterday, updating it to version 1.3.10 with official support for using up to 4GB of memory. What, you want your Skyrim news to have more vim, vip and vigor? How about new Nvidia beta drivers teasing tantalizing performance boosts?
With such a vast, open world to explore, it goes almost without saying that it would only be a matter of time before some enterprising modder attempted to leverage co-op functionality into Bethesda's latest opus, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
Enter Skyrim Online, the fan-made mod that intends to allow players to quest, chat, and trade with other players.
Bethesda has used its favorite Dragon Shout today, crying "PATCH-THIS-NOW" into the heavens of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim this morning. Update 1.3 has been deployed for PC users via Steam making "general stability improvements," fixes to magic resistance issues that surfaced from update 1.2, and more. The update has also been submitted to Sony and Microsoft for consoles, but no date for its release has been established.
Also, for those asking about the developer enabling 'Large Address Aware,' Bethesda has confirmed that they plan to roll out support for "4-Gigabyte Tuning (Large Address Aware)" next week on PC. Patch notes are available after the break.
Next week will bring an "incremental update" to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim with fixes for the infamous backwards-flying dragon and other recently-introduced bugs. After that, developer Bethesda has revealed, there'll be "continued game updates," and mod tools will be released for PC in January, using Valve's Steam Workshop.
Shortly after having felled his first dragon in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, my Khajiit thief--known only as McMane--found himself in quite the conundrum. Thankful for assistance in defending his city's westernmost watchtower from scaly, fire-breathing doom, the Nordic Jarl of Whiterun had bestowed the title of Thane upon my unsuspecting feline, along with permission to purchase property within the city walls.
Even for the time, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion had slightly dodgy animations. Fortunately, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim has a shiny new animation system in its revamped engine, with all sorts of motion-captured shininess, as developer Bethesda details in a new developer diary.
"We didn't want to have the 'one size fits all' for all characters. In the past, we had a very rigid system--every character, whether they were a bipedal humanoid, or a robot, or a quadraped, all had almost the exact same animation structure. And they don't move the same, and that was very limiting, and it just didn't make sense."
With The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim fast approaching, how will your PC hold up? Bethesda today unveiled the system requirements, revealing that, really, as long as you're not still rocking the computer you built in 2006 to play Oblivion, you're probably all right.
You apparently can't have a Bethesda RPG without a few famous people rounding out the cast of voice actors, and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is no exception. Bethesda announced this morning that it'll feature the familiar tones of Michael Hogan, Christopher Plummer, Joan Allen and other people you've seen on the telly, including Wonder Woman herself.
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim was recently playable at the Eurogamer Expo, letting some fans get their hands on Bethesda's upcoming RPG and its character creator for the first time. A wealth of new information about the games Perks (skill-related boosts), and information about race-specific bonuses were cobbled together by an enterprising fan at the event.
Microsoft continues its DLC strategy in the multiplatform content wars. As with Grand Theft Auto, Call of Duty, and Fallout before it, DLC for the upcoming Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim will be available on Xbox 360 first. According to the announcement, "the first two add-on content drops for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim will be releasing on Xbox 360, 30 days before it's available anywhere else."
"i was under the impression that PS3 players got the first DLC just fine, is that not the case? ..."
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