Tag Archives: Skyrim

Bethesda’s Todd Howard has said the team working on Skyrim knew it would experience a “bad memory situation” when developing the game for PS3, and worked extra hard on the code to prevent issues from occurring; however, problems did arise with “a small percentage” users.

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Bethesda’s announced that over 2 million mods have been downloaded since the launch of mod workshop the Creation Kit for PC players last week.

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Bethesda concept artist Adam Adamowicz, who created amazing art for Fallout 3, Skyrim and other Bethesda titles, has passed away after a long battle with cancer. The sad news was quietly announced by Pete Hines after Skyrim won big during the Academy of Arts & Sciences awards at DICE. A lovely tribute to the man who helped create some of the wonderful games we enjoy, and written by a fellow concept artist, can be found over on Awesome Robo. Our thoughts and most sincere condolences go out to each one of his family and friends.

For many PS3 users, the release of patch 1.4 for Skyrim was an absolute blessing, as it contains a fix to some lag issues players have been experiencing on the system since launch. However, a few players have noted they are still experiencing some issues, while others have reported smooth sailing.

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As promised last night, Bethesda has released Skyrim update 1.4 on Xbox 360 with the PS3 version expected sometime today as well. The full list of changes can be found through the Bethblog, which has been running a constant update on additional fixes added to the patch.

A rather interesting machinima video from YouTube user Tyrannicon has surfaced, and it features 500 Draugr, 500 Dwarven warriors, 200 skeletons and a dragon going at it in Skyrim. According to the
video’s creator, it was developed using a combination of mods and console commands. We approve. Check it out below. Thanks, Gamefront.

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Katie bar the door: as promised, the Skyrim Creation Kit is out along with the rumored, free High-Resolution Texture Pack. Nice surprise isn’t it? To celebrate, Bethesda also has the game for 33% off on Steam. Go download it all now and make some awesome mods. If you are not into such matters, and already own Skyrim, Game of the Year Editions for Morrwind and Oblivion are also $9.99 on the store, which is $10.00 off the normal price. Check out a video for the Creation Kit below.

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Bethesda’s Pete Hines has used the magic of Twitter to let folks know the Skyrim Creation Kit is on track to be released Tuesday, February 7. What’s more, the developers have a “special surprise” in store with the release. Here’s the tweet: “For our Skyrim PC fans, the Creation Kit is on track for release on Tuesday. And, we also have a special surprise with it.” Nary a hint was given as to what the surprise entails, but it won’t be much longer now.

Bethesda has released a developer diary highlighting some of the features in the Skyrim’s Creation Kit, which will be made available soon on Steam.

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Bethesda has posted a quick note informing Skyrim players testing out the patch on Steam that an update is available.

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Bethesda has release preliminary patch notes for Skyrim Update 1.4, and said the patch is current undergoing testing on all three platforms.   The patch notes are listed below, and because of this, we must warn you that certain entries may contain *spoliers*. You have been warned.

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This is, and will be, the best thing in all of existence ever. Someone’s managed to mod one of the characters from My Little Pony into Skyrim, replacing the dragons in the game. There’s videos of it in action below the break. Watch this too if you have a spare 20 minutes.

Thanks, EG.

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Destructoid got a look at Project Fiona, Razer’s PC tablet, running Skyrim on ultra high settings with 1280×800 resolution at CES. The site noted that the game had a few little framerate issues, but said it ran perfect when switched to high. Check out a video of it in action, posted below.

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Bethesda has taken to Twitter to assure PS3 users experiencing stuttering and lag in Skyrim that the issues will be addressed with the release of Update 1.4. The issues occur with the PS3 version as save files age. Users were hoping framerate issues would be fixed with Update 1.3 in December, but Bethesda said at the time the issues would be fixed in the next release. The latest patch is expected sometime this month.

Bethesda, Valve, and Supergiant Games have each been nominated in five different categories for the 12th annual Game Developers Choice Awards.

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Eurogamer has posted a Developers’ Games of 2011 feature, asking notables such as Ken Levine, Peter Molyneux, and David Jaffe what made the biggest impression on them during the year.

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GameFront is reporting on a new in-development mod for the PC that would bring cooperative and online play to Skyrim. The mod will reportedly allow players to quest together, trade items, and chat with other players worldwide.

There’s no word yet on exactly how it works since the mod is still in production, however a video was released that you can view after the break. The video is extremely rough, but it does show basic character models playing and moving around together in Whiterun (though without animation.)
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Bethesda PR VP Pete Hines has flat out debunked claims from Fallout: New Vegas project lead Josh Sawyer that memory management and the game’s engine is what’s currently causing problems for the PS3 version of Skyrim.

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An industrious Skyrim modder has posted a video showing how the PC version of the game works with Kinect. As shown in the video below, using a Blootuth headset the voice control component of Kinect is used for shouts and menu navigation, and of course, the techs prerequisite arm-swinging will implement weapon and magic attacks. Links for how he implemented the tech are through the YouTube link here. Thanks, CVG.

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Fallout: New Vegas director Josh Sawyer has suggested the reasons framerate slowing in the PS3 version of Skyrim are similar to those that plagued the Obsidian RPG.

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