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As if you needed more reason to anticipate the comping of the next Elder Scrolls game, here's a look at what the dragon-infested world of Skyrim would look like if it came to flaming, screaming, smoke-filled life. More »
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Put down that leaked Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim manual! And watch this clip. More »
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So the owner of the Elder Scrolls trademark is taking Minecraft developer Mojang to court, saying the latter's upcoming game Scrolls should be called something else. Bad words ensue. And now competing screenshots. More »
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I've got a copy of The Lord of the Souls, the second Elder Scrolls novel, sitting on my night stand. It's buried under a few other books I've got to read first. More »
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Fan flicks continually get better and better. Check out this Skyrim fan film trailer, which features swooping aerial shots, a CG dragon, and fire. More »
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Minecraft creator Markus "Notch" Persson has found himself in the middle of an unexpected legal battle with Bethesda, publishers of the Elder Scrolls series. Rather than fight it out in court, though, he has a better idea. More »
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Bethesda, the studio behind the Elder Scrolls games, sent out an email early Saturday morning alerting gamers to reset their forum passwords over a possible security breach. More »
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I mean no disrespect when I say this: I couldn't give a dragon's ass about the story in Skyrim. It may well be wonderful, but as the fifth installment in The Elder Scrolls series—none of which I've played for more than an hour or two at most—I've never had any opportunity to understand, let alone grow to love, the story. More »
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About six months ago, Bethesda Softworks' Pete Hines figured Feb. 18 was the perfect day to conceive a child, as the baby would be due on Nov. 11, the ship date for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. One couple conceived well early of that, but their baby's birth will still forever be associated with the game. More »
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If you've ever wondered why PC gamers are so passionate about mods, or why people love/hate/love the Elder Scrolls series so much, watch this. More »
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Hey hey, it's brand new footage from the upcoming Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. This is nothing but raw gameplay, with dragons and villagers and beautiful landscapes. More »
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There's a bit of an E3 custom to be had down the road from the Los Angeles Convention Center, where the annual event is held. And that custom is to drape the walls of the nearby Figueroa Hotel in giant video game posters. More »
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This is Gillian Grassie, a Philadelphia-area harpist. That's not the sort of instrument that gets a record deal; harpists typically fund their recordings by playing weddings, dining rooms and the like. To raise money for her next album, Grassie took requests, and found that video game patrons are very willing to support the arts. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5801454&view=rss&microfeed=true Elder Scrolls fans, don't sweat it: you'll be able to use mods in the upcoming Skyrim, as developers Bethesda will be releasing a "Creation Kit". More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5738479&view=rss&microfeed=true You know how the next Elder Scrolls game has a fancy new engine? Why not read all about it. There's even pictures! More »
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The next Elder Scrolls game, Skyrim, will be making some big changes to the way the series handles things like combat and levelling-up. More »
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While the reveal of a new Elder Scrolls game was a blast, it wasn't the best piece of Elder Scrolls news to come out of the weekend. No, the other piece is much more exciting. More »
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According to a report on Eurogamer Denmark, Elder Scrolls developers Bethesda are already hard at work on a fifth episode in the storied role-playing series. More »
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British rapper Dan Bull, who we've heard from before, returns with an elegantly-worded plea to Bethesda that amounts to: Fallout is nice, but a new Elder Scrolls game would be better. More »
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Back in February, during a panel I co-hosted, one of my very special guests, Bethesda's Todd Howard said he was cooking up an iPhone game. I asked him last week for an update. More »
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On this week's instalment of No Plans Watch: Bethesda's Todd Howard, speaking at QuakeCon 09 on the future of the Elder Scrolls series now that his company is officially done with Fallout 3. More »
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Looks like Bethesda will soon be bringing a lot more than just Fallout 3 to Steam, with users spotting some advertisements on the service advertising games like Oblivion and Morrowind. More »
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Last week, Bethesda Softworks gathered game writers in London to check out their upcoming titles during a two-day long gamers' day. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5227421&view=rss&microfeed=true For those single kotakuites out there, you have a little less than two days to either find a valentine or pick up a copy of Chulip and a box of tissues (for tears!) to spend the lovers' holiday with. In order to help you in your hunt for somebody to love, Busy Gamer News has compiled a reference video of pickup lines from Oblivion's land of Tamriel. More »
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The new issue of British PC gaming mag PC Zone, on stands today, reveals information about The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion's first full expansion pack. Unlike the paltry offerings we've received so far (not including the excellent horse armor, of course), the Shivering Isles expansion promises over 30 hours of new gameplay. New quests, new monsters, and a whole new land that changes based on your decisions as you play. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=226133&view=rss&microfeed=true This could be just the thing for me to forget how unbearably stagnant and boring I ultimately find Oblivion to be: the ability to transmogrify into huge ogres, gigantic walking sticks and carnivorous cephalopods. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=194809&view=rss&microfeed=true Whenever I see one of these speedrun videos, I wonder if the developers of the game become deeply depressed at seeing their months of hellish slavery in thrall to Bethesda so skewered. More »
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GamePolitics has an exclusive interview with the Oblivion modder who made it possible, through a series of hacks, to play the game surrounded by topless NPCs. The ESRB found out and slapped a new M rating on the previously T-rated RPG. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=187538&view=rss&microfeed=true If you're having problems with Oblivion for the PC, you might want to check out the Beta Patch, which might fix the problem and might cause others. It's an exciting gamble. This does have one of my favorite patch notes ever: "Fixed issue with disease resistences that made it impossible to contract vampirism under certain circumstances." It's like an anti-vaccine. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=171110&view=rss&microfeed=true There's nothing like an unsourced rumor to liven up a languid Tuesday afternoon. Is Oblivion coming to the PS3 and PSP? Will it, in fact, arrive within days of the PS3's launch date? Heck, we don't know. But we're not too proud to link to someone who claims to have inside information. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=169584&view=rss&microfeed=true Newcomers to the Elder Scrolls "scene" may be entranced by open-ended, full-world gameplay in Oblivion, but unaware that the magic of being able to ignore the main plotline completely and screw around goes back over a decade. UGO has a retrospective on the Elder Scrolls series, from its MS-DOS origins through the Xbox and cell phones to today. More »
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Are you a boring loser who would rather pay some anonymous Internet strangers to play Oblivion for you than — with a fart-like suction noise much like the sound of unplunging a toilet — rip your fat ass free from your computer chair and go do something yourself? More »
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Don't own a 360? Is the speed of your PC's computation roughly equivalent to a dusty medieval abacus encased in a tomb of dinosaur bones? We laugh at you — you won't be able to play Oblivion, leaving more copies for us. More »
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If you just can't wait to get your twitching hands on Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion... we can't help you. True, as the gaming journalist elite, Bethesda has personally sent us preview copies of the game, delivered upon pillows made of ruby silk by Bethesda's nubile concubines. But they trusted us and — as much as we'd love to just post the torrent here and now — we can't betray that trust. More »
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Publishers 2K Sports and 2K Games unveiled four games for the Xbox 360 in Amsterdam. Like all of the other studio heads announcing things in Amsterdam, the president of Visual Concepts was extremely excited about X05. Am I the only one who thinks that Microsoft s X05 Amsterdam swag included a big bag of nosecandy and a bed full of prostitutes? More »
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