Do you like classical music? Is your life set to a beautiful symphony invoving violins, pianos, and the occasional tuba? Do you yearn for the surreal event that will be tunes from the Elder Scrolls being played on a radio station that your grandparents might listen to?
]]>Skyblivion, the massive modding project that’s remaking The Elder Scrolls IV in Skyrim’s engine, is now in its currently scheduled release year - 2025.
]]>Popular modding site Nexus Mods recently announced an update to its policies on paid mods, and, as ever with the topic that seems very much to be a never ending source of controversy, the response from players and modders was a bit complicated.
]]>Paid mods are always controversial. Just look at Bethesda’s latest attempt at creating a system designed to facilitate such a thing having proven pretty much as polarising as its predecessors, even if things have died down a bit since that bit of Starfield Trackers Alliance mission controversy back in June.
]]>There always are a lot of cool-looking modding projects in the works for any Bethesda game at any point in time, so there's a chance that if you don't eat, sleep and breathe mods for work like I do, there's a chance Beyond Skyrim: Cyrodiil is one that's flown under your radar.
]]>Helldivers 2's next big patch is now set to drop tomorrow, October 15, because Arrowhead forgot to factor weekends into its plans when it announced that 60 day plan during the summer. The good news is that the studio's made up for this minor oversight via a cheeky video teasing what's coming in the patch, including one inclusion that's seen Johan Pilestedt get in on the jokes.
]]>She's been making gaming videos for almost a decade now, but Skyrim Grandma Shirley Curry has announced she's semi-retiring.
]]>Ever natter to yourself while you're playing Skyrim? It's ok, we all do it, even if it's just yelling expletives whenever we're playing on legendary difficulty and get ambushed by a dragon while overcumbered. Now, though, a Twitch streamer's taken this kind of thing to the next level, by turning their broadcasts into a live vlog from Tamriel thanks to a mod that lets them voice the Dragonborn in real time.
]]>The team behind Skyblivion, the massive modding project that’s remaking The Elder Scrolls IV - yep, the one where everyone’s faces look a bit hilarious - in Skyrim’s engine, has just shared some fresh quest gameplay. There’s a bit of Mages Guild, a bit of a scuffle on a farm, and all of it looks pretty great, aside from the odd bug.
]]>Fallout: London’s massive, but naturally there’s still some stuff that didn’t quite make it into the Fallout 4 mod. For example, in addition to the whole cut Wild Card questline that’ll be arriving in a future update, the team had a go at making rideable horses and bikes.
]]>The infinite debate about what is and isn't an immersive sim continues to rage on, as one of the co-creators of Dishonored says he thinks Skyrim is one.
]]>Paying for mods. If you’ve ever said those three words to anyone who plays games or makes mods for them, odds are you got a pretty strongly held opinion in response, or at least an acknowledgment that - as many Facebook relationship statuses say - it’s complicated.
]]>It's a big day for the labour movement in the games industry, as 241 Bethesda staffers have formed a union.
]]>Back in 2020, when Avowed was first announced, the internet had a pretty specific opinion of what sort of game it was going to be. It was Xbox’s Skyrim, right?
]]>Just days after a lengthy Reddit post outlining plans for it garnered a fair amount of attention, a very ambitious Starfield modding project that aimed to create an entire Elder Scrolls-themed planet featuring recreations of the worldspaces from Skyrim, Oblivion, and Morrowind "has been cancelled". Though, the poster behind it denies that it was, as many commenters had assumed, never properly in the works to begin with.
]]>The recent release of a creation club for Starfield - delivering content from Bethesda and modders for purchasable credits as the studio's previously done with Skyrim and Fallout 4 - drew a lot of backlash from players. Bethesda's Todd Howard has now addressed the controversy and indicated that the studio could be looking at making some changes to the initiative going forwards.
]]>“I had been playing Skyrim for a long time, and one day the idea just came to me,” YouTuber Sidek tells me. “‘What if I killed Nazeem every day until TES VI was released?’”
]]>The Fallout community is good at coming together to create cool things, with the least of these being a huge Fallout 4 mod built in just one weekend to help raise money for a charity drive by legendary Fallout, Elder Scrolls, and Starfield voice actor Wes Johnson - who also stars in it.
]]>A Skyrim VR streamer who spent $15,000 on a VR setup just for the Bethesda game has added a new element into the mix: actual pain.
]]>While Fallout 4's next-gen update hasn't even dropped yet, Amazon's Fallout TV show has already been driving droves of players back to the series. Naturally, a lot these returning wastelanders have been grabbing mods to spice up their experiences - about two Skyrim's per second worth, actually.
]]>Amazon's Fallout TV Show is here now, but before it was, the show had a swanky Hollywood premiere that I'm sure my invite for got lost in the post. At that premiere, snazzily dressed Todd Howard said some things, and some of these things were about the potential idea of an Elder Scrolls adaptation. When it comes to such a thing, it sounds like Howard's plan is - simply put - to keep on being picky.
]]>Desperate for more juicy info about Elden Ring’s Shadow of the Erdtree DLC? Well, the ESRB listing for it is now live, showing us the rating and some interesting details about some of the dodgy stuff in, uh, the base game.
]]>We’ve all been waiting to hear more about The Elder Scrolls 6 for years now, and, in a nice post celebrating the series’ 30th anniversary, Bethesda’s offered us a nice little update. People at the studio are apparently playing early versions of the game, and from the sounds of it, they’re having fun.
]]>Ok, strap yourself in. You know how Xbox said Starfield isn’t coming to any other platforms as of right now? Well, it still isn’t, despite a Twitter post from Bethesda having managed to give a few people who struggle with reading minor heart attacks.
]]>One of the world’s biggest modding platforms, Nexus Mods, has just smashed through the incredibly huge total of 10 billion total downloads across its entire catalogue of games. And yes, NSFW Skyrim mods definitely played a part in the achievement.
]]>As it turns out, because they're really swell folks, some of the Bethesda developers working on Skyrim did make a concious decision to unhook and hide away content that had to be cut from the game, but not entirely delete it from the game's files, with the hopes that modders would be able to uncover it down the line.
]]>Remember the Oblivion quest where you crash a dinner party and unleash a cheeky underpants-based spell on some rich folks? Well, Skyblivion's developers have just given us a look at the massive mod's version of it during a showcase at C3.
]]>“I remember a time not too long ago when Wanaming0, a modder friend of mine, needed help getting this mask to follow the facial expressions of the NPC wearing it,” recalls modder Neeher, “Well, I had no idea.”
]]>“There is no community quite like the Bethesda games community and I mean that in the best way,” Kenneth Vigue, founder of the charity initiative Fallout For Hope and creator of CHAD: A Fallout 76 Podcast tells me.
]]>If you’re a fan of Bethesda games, a new community modding event that’s set to take place on Twitch towards the end of next week looks well worth checking out, especially now that the artist behind some of Skyrim and Fallout 4’s most iconic creatures is set to make an appearance at it.
]]>A group of dedicated Starfield alien hunters claims to have located and photographed over 200 unique creatures while exploring the cosmos, a number that’s pretty breathtaking in comparison to other Bethesda games if accurate.
]]>If you’ve been looking for a reason to get sucked back into Skyrim this Christmas, a new mod can provide exactly that, offering a fully-voiced adventure that’ll teach you about the spirit of Saturalia.
]]>Joseph Wilson, better known to many as Elder Scrolls and Fallout YouTuber Mitten Squad, has died aged just 27, and fellow members of the Bethesda community are paying tribute to him.
]]>“Modding starts as a hobby and mods are passion projects for most people when they get started,” modder Emmi Junkkari, whom you may know by the handle Elianora, tells me.
]]>One of the modders behind popular multiplayer mod Skyrim Together has revealed that they started work on something similar for Starfield, but have since abandoned its development after finding the game wasn’t to their liking.
]]>Bethesda has dropped an update for Skyrim Special Edition which adds a new paid mods page called Creations, among other things.
]]>There’s now a Fallout 4 mod that allows you to order a pizza from the Institute and have it delivered to you in very rapid fashion by a teleporting synth delivery boy.
]]>The Twitch streamer who conquered Elden Ring using their brain earlier this year is now using similar tech to take one a modded mage playthrough of Skyrim VR.
]]>Given that it’s infamous for featuring some terrifyingly bizarre NPC encounters, Oblivion makes a pretty good game to play during spooky season, something the latest Skyblivion showcase proves.
]]>According to former Bethesda dev Bruce Nesmith, pretty much all decisions about the team's games "run through" Todd Howard, even if the studio head doesn't want that.
]]>The Elder Scrolls 6 might have been announced five years ago, but a former designer at Bethesda doesn't think we'll learn much about it until shortly before release.
]]>It sounds like Starfield is off to a very strong start, with Xbox Phil Spencer sharing an impressive figure of concurrent players.
]]>To the surprise of probably no one, Starfield has not one, but at least two references to Skyrim's infamous "arrow to the knee" quote.
]]>Crimson Desert, the single-player action RPG spin-off of Korean MMO Black Desert Online that was first revealed in 2020 but resurfaced at GamesCom 2023’s Opening Night Live, looks like it might be the most crowd-pleasing Big Game ever conceived. Or, it could be a project with a huge identity crisis that ultimately satisfies nobody. At this stage, it’s impossible to tell. Based on the recent gameplay trailer (below), it could go either way.
]]>The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim has somehow took on a new life as a sort of melting pot for anything cool from pop culture, as well as other games. We've all seen the mods that bring FromSoftware combat to the game, such as this Sekiro mod for Skyrim.
]]>The Xbox 360 first launched in 2005, and if you were fortunate enough to not encounter the ‘Red Ring of Death’ that the earlier consoles suffered from, then you were set for a good few years of gaming.
]]>It’s a pretty good week to be a Bethesda fan, because now we have two very important dates to mark in the calendar: firstly, on June 11th, we’re getting the much promised Starfield focused direct (which was recently reported to be imminent, but I guess we’re going to have to wait until the magical E3 period for any more reveals, like usual).
]]>A new Genshin Impact teaser trailer for Dehya has a select few among the community making obvious, but admittedly hilarious Skyrim gags. After all, both have a long carriage journey at the start. It was inevitable.
]]>The video version of this article will play up here if you can sit through the short advert first. Please watch it. I'm wearing a nice hat and everything.
]]>It's been 12 years, now, since Bethesda launched its all-timer of an RPG. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim has a seemingly endless appeal, and as of 2016, the publisher announced that the game had racked up an impressive 30 million sales.
]]>Welcome to VG247's Best Games Ever Podcast: Episode 35 - The best game that shouldn't be made into a TV show.
]]>There is a massive selection of brilliant games available on PlayStation Plus, for both those with the trusty PlayStation 4 or a brand new PlayStation 5.
]]>There's no greater fantasy in all of gaming than the best open-world games. Leading your character on an intrepid adventure that's wholly your own, exploring where you want to explore and making a memorable journey of the things you find is one of the most satisfying experiences you can have.
]]>Skyrim modders are to bring DLSS, FSR2, and XeSS upscaling to the Anniversary and Special Editions of the game.
]]>In the United States (and all over the world to a lesser degree), you’ll sometimes find public preachers expressing their beliefs about judgement day, anti-LGBT propaganda, and so on. However, at one college over in the USA, a new challenger has entered the fray, attempting to match the miced up preacher with the words of Talos filling their lungs, and a cool Skyrim cosplay.
]]>The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim has technically been released yet again, with the Anniversary Edition being made available on the Nintendo Switch eShop, seemingly out of nowhere.
]]>You may already be familiar with a co-op mod for Skyrim, known as Skyrim Together. The mod has been a long work in progress, experiencing various setbacks before essentially starting all over again in 2019. Now, the modders have revealed that Skyrim Together Reborn is ready, but a beta won't be rolling out...
]]>In creative writing class, they teach you: show, don’t tell. Todd Howard and his clan at Bethesda Game Studios obviously took notes on that, because Skyrim is all about stumbling into enigmatic scenes and being drawn to figure out what took place here. It shows you a dead body somewhere unusual, an incongruous set of objects around it, and it knows you’re pulled into the narrative in a way that hearing an NPC telling you about it wouldn’t achieve.
]]>Looks like Switch users may finally get their hands on Skyrim Anniversary Edition if a listing from the Taiwan Digital Game Rating Committee is any indication.
]]>Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor's best feature was easily the nemesis system, and an upcoming mod seeks to add it to Skyrim.
]]>If you ever find yourself playing Skyrim and think that you wish you could talk to other players through obscure messages like in Elden Ring, you're in luck; there's a mod for that now.
]]>There are dozens of fantastic things to play on Game Pass, both on the family of Xbox consoles and PC.
]]>My Skyrim doesn’t look like yours. It doesn’t even look like my Skyrim from five years ago. Thanks to a furiously talented and prolific modding community, the land and everything in it have evolved over time, deepening in detail and beauty at a steady rate for over a decade, one uncompressed 16K texture pack at a time.
]]>I grew up reading fantasy books written by people who gave their initials instead of their first names (J.R.R. Tolkien, C.J. Cherryh, R.A. Salvatore, M.C. Hammer, etc). I think this is why I fell so deeply in love with The Elder Scrolls games Oblivion and, later, Skyrim. These open worlds allowed me to completely immerse myself in worlds with everything that I adored from those stories. Swords! Magic! Elves! Dragons! Weird and wonderful creatures! Epic quests!
]]>It is now possible to play every mainline Bethesda Studios RPG from this century on the very latest generation of Xbox consoles, and most of them in a pristine 4K60 presentation with HDR enabled. This is, unequivocally, a Good Thing.
]]>The London Symphony Orchestra and London Voices recently put on a performance of the soundtrack to The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim to celebrate its tenth anniversary. As part of this concert, the orchestra also played a suite of music from upcoming Bethesda space game Starfield, making the concert one of the most complete glimpses into what the final game will sound like.
]]>Figuring out how to fill soul gems in Skyrim is vital if you plan on doing a lot of enchantment.
]]>The best Skyrim builds depend largely on how you want to play the game.
]]>One of the headline additions to Skyrim Anniversary edition is the Saints and Seducers quest line, a nostalgic romp for fans of Oblivion’s awesome DLC, the Shivering Isles.
]]>If you’re wondering how to cure vampirism in Skyrim, you’re in luck.
]]>Skyrim: Anniversary Edition is out on Noveber 11, and Bethesda has provided pricing for the latest release of the title which turns 10 next week.
]]>November 2011. Skyrim is released to an Elder Scrolls thirsty public. Many consider it a role-playing masterpiece (those who haven’t played Demon’s Souls, anyway).
]]>Tabletop publisher Modiphius Entertainment announced that their latest project is The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim – The Adventure Game, a board game prequel to the endlessly ported favorite Skyrim for one to four players.
]]>Bethesda has provided details on some of the new content coming with the Skyrim: Anniversary Edition, which it calls the “most comprehensive edition” of the game released to date.
]]>A change made in the upcoming Skyrim Anniversary Edition threatens to splinter the mod scene. With every update to the immensely popular game, there threatens to be a change that breaks the way mods work, and Skyrim Anniversary Edition is the biggest concern in the modding community yet.
]]>Bethesda has announced a new version of Skyrim at QuakeCon 2021, in celebration of the game's 10-year anniversary. The new version, dubbed Skyrim Anniversary Edition, arrives November 11 on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S - with free upgrades on new consoles.
]]>A myth involving Skyrim and its foxes, which has persisted for years, has been debunked.
]]>Microsoft is enhancing some of Bethesda's backwards compatible games for Xbox Series X/S.
]]>And you can still earn Trophies.
]]>Microsoft adds yet more big names to its subscription service.
]]>Because Microsoft's super-powered machine needs help running a nine-year-old game.
]]>Porting Doom to things has become something of a meme – from predictable tech like Zune devices and iPods to more unexpected devices (like a fridge), there's a rich history in players trying to run Doom on anything with a motherboard.
]]>Apparently loading your Skyrim mods incorrectly can potentially change the Dovahkiin simulator into a game where there is no such thing as eyeballs anymore.
]]>Fall Guys have begun invading other games with the help of mods.
]]>The Beyond Skyrim team recently unveiled a brand new trailer featuring our very first look at Black Marsh.
]]>A new gameplay trailer for Skywind, the upcoming fan-made remaster of Morrowind built in Skyrim's engine, recently dropped online, offering us a fresh look at what to expect.
]]>Guards in Skyrim appear to have decided that they don't need to wear uniforms anymore and are legging it around Markarth and Solitude in their underwear.
]]>If you've ever taken on Alduin in Skyrim, you'll know that it's important to go in equipped with a variety of Shouts, spells, and powerful weapons - but what if, somehow, you had a fighter jet instead?
]]>If you have a lecturer that really, really annoys you, you could probably get back at them by writing all of your assignments in Skyrim Dovah, aka Dragon language.
]]>It looks and sounds completely impractical, but giants in Skyrim have gotten remarkably good at riding dragons.
]]>Skyrim giants have been clubbing players into the stratosphere for almost nine years, so it's about time someone figured out how to return the favour.
]]>The PlayStation 4 is by far the best-selling console of this generation, and there's one good reason for that: video games. When it comes to games, PS4 has led the pack this entire gen.
]]>I have pumped a significant amount of hours into Skyrim over the last nine years, but had never heard anything about dueling the Companions in Jorrvaskr until about five minutes ago.
]]>One particularly persevering player recently managed to construct a perfect replica of Skyrim's Dark Brotherhood Sanctuary in Minecraft.
]]>The Forgotten City once won a Writer's Guild of America award back when it was known as an excellent Skyrim mod - now it's being designed as its own game, and is due to launch this winter.
]]>There's no such thing as too many mods when it comes to Skyrim.
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]]>Beloved videogame streamer Shirley “Skyrim Grandma” Curry is pulling back from the public eye after receiving a small number of negative and patronizing comments that have affected her health.
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]]>Bethesda fans have taken to Reddit in order to argue about Elder Scrolls dicks.
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