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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim was a wonderful game on the PC and a fine game on the Xbox 360. On the PlayStation 3, however, it had issues for some players. Lag issues. Horrible, game-killing lag issues. Issues that made some Sony console owners shout that the game shouldn't be Game of the Year. More »
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At D.I.C.E. 2012, Bethesda Game Studios' Todd Howard just showed an amazing highlight reel of mods the studio built into The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim during a week-long "game jam" after the game's release. Features like mounted combat, a lycanthropy skill tree, and one enormous mudcrab, the width of the horizon, were all shown. And that was the tip of the iceberg. More »
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Todd Howard, the game director for Bethesda Game Studios (The Elder Scrolls, Fallout) is the keynote speaker opening the D.I.C.E. Summit, the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences' annual conclave in Las Vegas at 9:30 EST. Howard's address, whose livestream, courtesy of GameSpot, is embedded below, will cover "Why We Create, Why We Play." More »
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The very fancy, highly-anticipated Creation Kit for Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim will be out this Tuesday, Bethesda's Pete Hines has revealed. More »
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We've gotten used to giving game developers a certain amount of leeway when it comes to glitches and bugs. In today's Speak Up on Kotaku commenter Eatplaysleepmore wonders if we've taken this forgiveness too far. More »
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The twisted terror of the Macho Man has nothing on the latest threat to besiege the people of Skyrim. Friendship becomes a dark magic indeed when My Little Pony Fluttershy descends from on high. More »
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Doom, one of the progenitors of the first-person shooter genre, has returned to the Xbox Live Marketplace after a mysterious three-month hiatus. The classic PC title is available for 400 Microsoft Points ($5). More »
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Fake blood, that is. Skyrim player and prop maker Shannon Clawson decided to modify the map bundled with The Elder Scrolls V. Out came the sandpaper, fake blood, and fire. More »
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If you bought Skyrim on PS3, you've likely experienced one of the most frustrating technical hiccups of 2011: a gradually increasing "lag" which slows your game the longer you play it. More »
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It is the year 2012 in the province of Skyrim, a land where magic and technology coexist, and shopkeepers still haven't learned their lesson regarding irresponsibly-placed head-sized buckets. More »
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As reported last week, the legal battle between Bethesda and Interplay over the final fate of a massively multiplayer online Fallout game has ended in a settlement, one that leaves full control of Fallout intellectual properties in the hands of Bethesda. More »
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While Portal 2 walked away with Kotaku's official game of the year award for 2011, Kotaku commenters held their own damn awards this year and they ended with a resounding chorus of "FUS ROH DAH". More »
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The legal stoush between Bethesda and Interplay over the rights to certain aspects of the Fallout universe, which has been dragging on for years, has finally been settled, according to a report on Fallout fansite Duck & Cover. More »
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YouTube user Jason Yang cloned himself for one very special reason: to play beautiful Skyrim music to you. That's so nice! More »
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In today's memorable edition of Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter Eatplaysleepmore thinks he's found a major character flaw in Bethesda's latest masterpiece. Do you agree? More »
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Believe it or not, Skyrim was not necessarily a shoo-in for our list of the best video game music of 2011. Epic first-person open world games can get into murky territory with their music, especially if the music plays too often. More »
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It's East meets West. A Japanese gamer has inserted Final Fantasy XIII heroine Lightning into The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim with a character mod. Here are the results. What do you think? More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5869227&view=rss&microfeed=true The backwards-flying dragon killing and magic-resistance fixing Skyrim 1.3 patch is now live on the Xbox 360, according to Bethesda's official The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Twitter account. Go get it and then marvel at the lack of reverse dragons. More »
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During this year's Tokyo Game Show, this one Japanese dude I met kept going on and on about the game he was looking forward to most. That game was The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. He was not alone. More »
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There's an exploit in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim that allows players to put a bucket on characters' heads and take their stuff. More »
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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is a great game with a great world and great music. More »
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Taking one page out of EpicMealTime and another out of some book in Skyrim about helmets made of bacon, internet person Liktwo made a Skyrim helmet. Out of bacon. More »
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We all know that The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is a vast open-world game with the potential to keep players exploring new content until they grow old and gray. What commenter klip_twings wants to know in today's Speak Up on Kotaku is when do you stop? More »
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Skyrim's "Arrow in the Knee" meme didn't only inspire an epic dubstep anthem. It also inspired this tattoo. More »
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Meghan's husband has everything. "For instance, he has two pomegranate spoons," she told Kotaku. "Two of them. I don't know why. He doesn't even like pomegranates all that much." More »
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The fact that musician Rameses B has created an epic dubstep anthem celebrating the Skyrim "Arrow in the Knee" meme should convince everyone that it's finally grinding to a halt. In case that doesn't work, My Little Ponies. More »
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There's a problem with Skyrim on the PS3, in that for many gamers, the bigger their save game file gets, the slower the game gets. It's so bad sometimes the framerate can drop to zero. Despite a recent patch many users are still complaining about the problem so, uh, what's up? More »
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Jon Fitch (above, celebrating after a win) makes his living kicking the crap out of people. As one of the world's best mixed martial artists, he's top drawer at what he does. But when he's not fighting and not training, he's thinking. About Skyrim. More »
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Spending time in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, you know the game is beautiful. But did you know it was this beautiful? More »
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For all that is good about Skyrim, there are still Elder Scrolls fans who have a special place in their hearts reserved for the relatively wacky 2002 iteration of the series, Morrowind. More »
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Did you know you can play The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim with motion controls? You can! Here's the Razer Hydra, Razer's motion control peripheral, playing through Skyrim. More »
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Bethesda finally realises something Oblivion and Fallout 3 fans could have told them years ago. [Bethesda] More »
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Another day, another funny Skyrim video. This one's been making the rounds a bit, but I thought it'd be fun to share—in it, YouTube user STuKKie86 climbs to the top of one of the game's many mountains, and then, via some sort of in-game console wizardry, casts a spell that prompts the mountain to… vomit up 2,500 wheels of Skyrim cheese. More »
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After game developer Bethesda released a patch—Version 1.02—for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, gamers took to the forums. Many rejoiced, noting that the PS3 freeze issue appeared fixed. Now, some folks are saying the patch hasn't made things better. It's made them worse. More »
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Some things sound better in Japanese. Take the Disney ride Star Tours. It sounds better in Japanese. The Pirates of the Caribbean ride, however, does not. What about Skyrim? More »
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Oh, man. This video, called "Unnecessary Censorship - Skyrim" from YouTube user NormalDifficulty (who also gave L.A. Noire the same humorous treatment) is a triumph. In it, they've added censoring bleeps to a bunch of the dialogue in Bethesda's game, making it much saltier than the at times staid, often weird line readings really are. They've also made the dialogue much, much more hilarious. More »
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One very valid complaint that was levelled against Elder Scrolls IV is that it often felt like there were only three people voicing the game's entire cast. More »
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We have certainly seen a lot of different kinds of posts about Skyrim over the past couple of weeks. We've got jokes and memes, fan-fiction and fan-art, and one billion YouTube videos, from the impressive to the disturbing. More »
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Already available on the PlayStation 3 (though masquerading under the name 2.01), the 1.2 patch for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is due out for the PC and Xbox 360 on Wednesday, and the plague of marital corpses finally comes to an end. More »
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