Skyrim And Winter Have A Lot In Common
And it's not just the snowy setting. These similarities—five really serious ones— presented by Dorkly are much much deeper.
Better watch out with those Skyrim mods. If you're not careful you could end up with a glitched skeleton with Hatsune Miku hair. On the other hand, this opens up a whole new category in the catalog of terrifying, modded Dovakhiins.
It's Easy To Cross The Line With Skyrim Mods
Once you've installed a few, there's no going back. Eventually, you might end up with a setup like this, breaking the game's lore and theme as badly as possible. Even Sven, one of the NPC followers, realizes that something's not right.
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So many unanswered questions in this screenshot from Skyrim... The random, yet unmistakable cuddling. The positioning. The imperial guard's moustache... Let's just leave these two here in peace.
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600 pounds of mostly therapeutic cheese. Hoarding in Skyrim is fun, especially when you can justify it with even the flimsiest of backstories.
You Know What Skyrim Needs? A Mechanical Fish In A Top Hat Maybe?
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If you are bored with your current follower in Skyrim, you can always add the absolutely ridiculous Mr. Unicorn The Cyborg Gentleman Fish. He is a fish (and not a crab) with a top hat put onto mechanical legs.
These Are Some Surprisingly Sexy Skyrim Shoes
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When you think Skyrim shoes, you might think dusty boots and clunky metal footwear. But these are something else.
Screw With Your Skyrim Friends Using Two Simple Voice Commands
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They've sort of added multiplayer to Skyrim via the game's new Kinect voice-control update. Not real multiplayer. Not the kind that lets two people play the game together or against each other. No, they've simply added voice commands. But when a friend barges in on your gaming session and yells "ally attack" and…
Skyrim's "Arrow in the Knee" Makes a Guest Appearance on NCIS
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A Song Built From the Sounds of Skyrim
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Why Do Text-Heavy Games Make Reading So Painful?
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In today's short-but-sweet installment of Read Up on Kotaku, commenter RevRain wonders why developers spend days filling their games with tomes of ancient lore without putting nearly as much effort into delivering a pleasant reading experience.
The Black Hand is Alive and Well in Episode Three of Skyrim 2012
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A Bookseller's Video Game Lament
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I play Skyrim obsessively, like lots of people. I'm also a full-time antiquarian book dealer and during my glorious attempts to become a leather-clad death machine in The Elder Scrolls V, I'm always tempted to make some in-game coin on the side collecting and selling the hundreds of available antiquarian titles.…
Here’s How Skyrim’s Creation Kit Lets You Make Mod Magic
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Bethesda previously announced the Skyrim Creation Kit, which will let PC users re-invent their hit RPG in unimagined ways. There's no release date yet for the toolset but the publisher's unveiled a new video that details the Creation Kit's functionality and intergration with Steam Workshop. Skyrim's going to get a…
How Skyrim Could Damage the U.S. Economy (Sorta)
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First we have Wired magazine's Geek Dad mock-fretting that the wonderful time-sink of Skyrim may be hurting the productivity of the American worker and therefore may drag the nation's economy down.
Bethesda Sics Lawyers on Minecraft Makers Over Scrolls Name, Skyrim…
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One game is called Scrolls. One game is called Skyrim, though, more formally, you'd call it The Elder Scrolls V. Confusing?
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Unveiled, Dated For 2011
Bethesda Softworks just announced the fifth game in the Elder Scrolls series and the sequel to The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion will be called Skyrim. And it'll be out next year.