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In an entertaining keynote presentation at DICE Summit today, Skyrim director Todd Howard said gaming has become the premiere entertainment medium – and showed off some amazing Skyrim brainstorming.

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The AIAS has announced that Bethesda’s Todd Howard will be providing the opening keynote during the D.I.C.E. Summit. Howard’s talk will focus on game development and player experience and is titled “Why We Create, Why We Play.” “The 2012 D.I.C.E. Summit will kick off with one of the most distinguished creative minds of our time with Todd Howard as our Opening Keynote speaker,” said Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences president Martin Rae in the press release. “Todd’s many contributions to the industry have greatly advanced our understanding of player interaction and engagement. His games take players on journeys through distant fantasy worlds and post apocalyptical universes that are driving a new generation of entertainment.” D.I.C.E. will take place February 7-9 in Las Vegas, Nevada at the Red Rock Resort.

Besthesda has reiterated it intends DLC for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim to be chock full of content, and tailored around player feedback.

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“I think our favorite [user made video] really is putting the buckets on the heads. It was like day two, and we went, what? Do we fix that? Our lead programmer is pissed and wants to fix it, and I said I’m not sure we should. That’s one of those where maybe we leave it in.”

– Bethesda’s Todd Howard admits to Joystiq that he has a fondness for one of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim’s more amusing emergent techniques.

Infinite dragons in Skyrim? Bah fooey: Todd Howard sees you and raises infinite quests.

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Bethesda plans to make its Skyrim DLC big and bold rather than quick and easy, but won’t shy away from patching.

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Skyrim director Todd Howard has let slip a few ways in which the game eschews Oblivion’s trappings in favour of a Fallout 3 approach.

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Bethesda’s Todd Howard has said The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is as much an improvement over Oblivion as Oblivion was to Morrowind.

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Bethesda’s Todd Howard has said his team feels “a lot more comfortable,” developing Skyrim on consoles, now that it has two previous Elder Scrolls games under its belt.

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Betheda’s Todd Howard has confirmed to G4 that players will be able to take on the role of a vampire in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.

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Todd Howard has said he is not much of an “MMO guy,” and Elder Scrolls games are big enough in and of themselves without venturing into online territory.

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Bethesda’s Todd Howard has explained what the Skyrim development team did to make the Xbox 360 version of The Elder Scrolls V look better on the console than previous titles from the firm.

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“I’ve thought for a long time that games are too expensive. I don’t put us in that category of course – for what we give you, for sixty bucks or however many ‘quid’ it is. That’s a lot of money for entertainment, so I think the good news is that in certain markets- PC, iPhone, mobile – we can see prices coming down. But I do think industry-wide we would benefit from more games out at $19 or $29. I would try more games. Because I’m not going to try a game for $60. It’s a tough decision. That’s why people read reviews and previews, because it’s not only a money decision, it’s a time-investment decision. It’s not like going to a movie.” – Bethesda’s Todd Howard to PSM3 on why not all games should cost $60. Thanks, D’toid.

Bethesda has announced the full Quakecon 2011 line-up, confirming the legendary, 50-hour John Carmack ultra-keynote for 2.00pm local time on August 4.

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Bethesda Game Studios chief Todd Howard has said the studio won’t rule out external development on the Elder Scrolls series in the future after Skyrim.

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Bethesda’s Todd Howard has told Gamasutra the team behind Skyrim doesn’t have any plans to make the game easier just so it will appeal to a mass audience.

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Bethesda’s just announced three demos for QuakeCon featuring Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, RAGE and Prey 2.

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Bethesda Game Studios director Todd Howard has refused to promise a day one launch for the Creation Kit, the mod tools for the PC version of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.

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Bethesda has reiterated that the winnowing down of some gameplay features over the lifespan of The Elder Scrolls series is an effort to make each game better.

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Bethesda Game Studios boss Todd Howard has said that any DLC for Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim will likely have an “expansion pack feel” to it.

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