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Skyrim, Dishonored, Morrowind and other Bethesda soundtracks now available on...
Bethesda have made a number of soundtracks from their back-catalogue available digitally, many for the first time. Albums for Dishonored, Rage, the two Fallouts, as well as Jeremy Soule’s excellent...
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Alien Noire countdown website holds possible Prey 2 connection
A countdown website called Alien Noir has been launched, with possible ties to Human Head’s Prey 2. On the surface, there’s not much to go on – some gobbledegook glyphs and obtuse timers – but a...
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Enderal: The Shards of Order mod to convert Skyrim into an entirely new...
Most Skyrim mods furnish Bethesda’s sprawling steppes with prettier pixels, more gear, or more punishment. The tenacious team at SureAI, however, has an even more ambitious project in the works:...
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Skyrim HD Texture Pack update includes Dragonborn, Hearthfire, Dawnguard
On the scaled wings of yesterday’s Dragonborn DLC release for Skyrim, the free HD Texture Pack from Bethesda has been updated with meatier visuals for all three DLC packs, including Hearthfire and...
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Skyrim Dragonborn Diary: The Leader’s Guide to Following Your Followers
I love my Skyrim wife, Mjoll the Lioness. She carries my spare gear with no complaint, she never runs out of arrows, and she doesn’t mind accompanying me when I murder a bunch of farmers because I...
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Dishonored story DLC hinted at by PS3 Trophies
Dishonored’s roof-flitting ride to revenge already landed our Singleplayer Shooter of 2012 award, but there may be more to the saga in an upcoming DLC pack hinted at by a new batch of PS3 Trophies....
View ArticleWatch this: Skyrim with RealVision ENB V1.3, tweaks, and max settings looks...
Using our Skyrim modding guide, you can get the home of the Nords looking pretty stunning. This video from SkyrimTuner, however, pushes the envelope just about to the limit. Using the RealVision ENB...
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QuakeCon 2013 announced for August
Things guaranteed to happen each year: incrementally improved new versions of popular products, at least one earnestly predicted end of the world scenario, and QuakeCon, id Software’s mega-LAN...
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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim – Dragonborn review
Let’s get this out of the way: you’re going to find the dragon riding in Dragonborn disappointing. You can’t steer the beast or land wherever you want, and while you can direct your dragon to attack...
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Oblivionauts mod recasts Skyrim onto user-created maps with dynamic campaigns
At first glance, Oblivionauts seems somewhat convoluted. It’s neither a total conversion like Enderal nor a straightforward supplement of extra gear. The mod adopts more non-linearity than Skyrim in...
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Skyrim’s 1.9 update now in beta – brings “legendary” features
Bethesda are planning to release Skyrim’s upcoming 1.9 update at the end of the month. The end of the month?! That’s slightly under a month away! Fortunately, given that patience has never been among...
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Skyrim sketched: a collection of Adam Adamowicz’s concept art
For all its overabundance of sweet rolls and murderous dragons, Skyrim is absolutely beautiful. Mods enhance the windswept plains and craggy mountain peaks of the Nord homeland into a truly...
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Duel Combat Realism mod for Skyrim is a true warrior’s test
Plenty of gameplay-tweaking mods for Skyrim sparkle like Ayleid gems in our roundup, but LogRaam’s Duel Combat Realism overhaul somehow evaded our stealth detection. It’s one of the oldest mods around...
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The Elder Scrolls Online Q&A details combat, party mechanics
If there’s a significant element The Elder Scrolls Online picks up from its predecessors, its fighting. Lots of it. That, and players completely disregarding the story and running off to some nearby...
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Tropical Skyrim mod is like Far Cry with swords
The frigid fjords of Skyrim constantly remind you that it’s cold. Freezing gales howl down from ridges and sweep in fresh flurries of frost, and the arctic air means anything less than a full-blown...
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Dishonored: The Knife of Dunwall DLC lets you atone for Daud’s sins
Bethesda have released details of the second Dishonored DLC pack, The Knife of Dunwall. Where the first add-on, Dunwall City Trials, was a hodgepodge of challenge maps and time-trials, Knife of...
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The Elder Scrolls Online hands-on: first-person mode, skills, stealth and more
At a press event at Zenimax Online Studios last week, the Elder Scrolls Online developer waited until the end of a lengthy presentation to deliver arguably the most important piece of news about their...
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The Elder Scrolls Online video interview: Matt Firor and Nick Konkle on not...
While I was in the USA to see The Elder Scrolls Online I chatted to game director Matt Firor and lead gameplay designer Nick Konkle about their experience making the game, the thinking behind the...
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The Elder Scrolls Online: What I loved and what I didn’t as a long-time Elder...
If I had to pick a handful of gaming moments that will stay with me forever, three of them would be stepping into Morrowind, Oblivion, and Skyrim for the first time. Another would be my first few days...
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Skyrim’s ‘Legendary’ update hits steam, smashes level cap with a greatsword
Like a thieving Khajit with a Sneak skill of 100, Bethesda have surreptitiously uploaded Skyrim’s Legendary patch onto Steam. As revealed earlier this month, Legendary – or to give it its proper name,...
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GDC 2013: Dishonored devs uphold player improvisation and minimal guidance
Beyond Dunwall’s detailed architecture and snippets of lore spread through its cobbled streets, Dishonored racked up acclaim for its steep non-linearity and free-form areas for players to fashion...
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GDC 2013: Dishonored’s Dunwall influenced by dev visits to London, Edinburgh
At night, Dishonored’s sprawling city of Dunwall looks particularly magnificent. Lit windows dot a canopy of angular roofs and spires, and stacks continuously belch out whale-oil smoke—a signature of...
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Id starts fresh on Doom 4 development
Doom 4 will eventually emerge from development hell, but exactly when is still uncertain. Bethesda Vice President of Marketing and Public Relations Pete Hines tells Kotaku that id’s Doom 4 team has...
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Mod of the Week: Achieve That! for Skyrim
I’ve never been much of a reader in the Elder Scrolls games. When I come across a stack of books, I’ll just drift my cursor along the spines, looking for any that are high value, either to collect and...
View ArticleDishonored: The Knife of Dunwall trailer shows Daud having a whale of a time
On the strength of this trailer, we can be fairly certain that The Knife of Dunwall, the second piece of Dishonored DLC, is going to live up to its name. In fact, for a man trying to forget what he’s...
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Skyrim team to move on to Bethesda’s next major project
The core group at Bethesda Game Studios announced on the studio’s blog today that they will be leaving the jagged, snowy climes of northern Tamriel behind for an unknown location. While minor updates...
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Bethesda tweets cryptic Vine video, says “guess again” to Fallout 4 rumors
It starts with a dizzying shot of barbed wire. Then we see a glimpse of an LP—The Moonbeam Trio, directed by George Shackley. A quick Googling reveals that the Library of Congress has recordings. Then...
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Bethesda teases with another cryptic Vine video, commits floricide
Yesterday it was spinning barbed wire and Bach’s Air on the G String, and today it’s burning sunflowers and a guy who doesn’t look very alive. Bethesda Softworks’ new passion for experimental art...
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The Evil Within announced – here’s what Bethesda have been teasing all week
After days of creepy Vine teasers – later revealed to be Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami’s new survival horror, codenamed “Zwei” – Bethesda have now officially announced the project with a short...
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Wolfenstein: The New Order won’t contain multiplayer
We know very little about MachineGames’ upcoming Wolfenstein: The New Order. What we could glean from the announcement promised the return of B.J. Blazkowicz, fighting through an alternate universe...
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Dishonored, Skyrim and more for cheap in GamersGate’s Bethesda sale bonanza
Blink over to GamersGate and you’ll find a selection of Bethesda published and developed games, their prices magicked in half for this weekend by Baargan’an, Daedric lord of cheap stuff. From there...
View ArticleWolfenstein: New Order screenshots show Nazis, robots and Nazi robots
Our quantum spectrathingy is going wild! What could it be? Ah, a chilling vision of an alternate reality world in which the Nazis: a) won World War 2, b) were obsessed with robots, c) had the...
View ArticleWolfenstein: The New Order screenshots show Blazkowicz at war
In a world where Nazis and robots have teamed up to shoot things, one man is shooting them back... Is how the Wolfenstein: The New Order trailer might begin. At which point, collected filmgoers would...
View ArticleThe Evil Within screenshots show the horror of a world without cleaners
Would you look at the state of this place. Sure, it’s an evil hell world of death and terror, but is that any reason to forget basic hygiene? What are those shambling monsters doing when you’re not...
View ArticleE3 2013: What we’re excited to see
With E3 2013 just around the corner, we gathered around the Rectangular Coffee Table of Hopes and Dreams to discuss what we’re looking forward to rubbing our eyeballs gently across at the show. Will...
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Elder Scrolls Online to separate players by platform
Players in the upcoming Elder Scrolls Online MMORPG will find themselves separated by platform, according to information released today by game developer Zenimax Online. Adventurers on PC and Mac will...
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The Evil Within is “pure survival horror” says Bethesda VP Hines
Bethesda marketing vice president Pete Hines has been making the interview rounds at E3 to talk about work on The Evil Within, an upcoming survival-horror game from Resident Evil creator Shinji...
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The Evil Within interview accompanies a gameplay demo that is nasty, brutish,...
Shinji Mikami’s The Evil Within made the rounds at E3 this week, with Bethesda’s VP of marketing and PR, Pete Hines, giving interviews and doling out screenshots. During a video interview with...
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Bethesda explains Fallout 4′s absence at E3
While we certainly saw a whole lot of online spell casting and ogre-clobbering in The Elder Scrolls Online at E3, there was a noticeable absence at the event. Deathclaws didn’t roam the show floor...
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Wolfenstein: The New Order dev says “you will cry blood” on hardest difficulty
While we have a sense of Wolfenstein: The New Order’s visual style, we’re still collecting snippets of information about the gameplay in Machine Games’ re-imagination of the Wolfenstein universe. The...
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Dishonored’s success makes it a “franchise,” future of Rage unclear, Bethesda...
Life for many residents of Dishonored’s Dunwall city is brutal, short, and dark. Fortunately, the possibility of a sequel to Arkane Studios’ take on steampunk stealth appears to be anything but grim,...
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New Elder Scrolls Online dev video shows new monsters, first-person camera
A short new development video from the team behind the Elder Scrolls Online teases us with yet another glimpse at how combat looks from a first-person perspective in the upcoming MMORPG. Released...
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The Elder Scrolls Online will tailor dungeons to group play, offer “rare...
Despite series-standard flourishes like first-person combat, The Elder Scrolls Online is still firmly lodged in my head as an MMO, which means I’d always assumed that its dungeons would be created...
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The Evil Within preview: A master of horror gaming returns to an old haunt
Console-style survival horror games might not have a huge following on PC, but The Evil Within deserves attention: it’s the work of Shinji Mikami, who pioneered the genre with the original Resident...
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Wolfenstein: The New Order delayed until 2014
Wolfenstein: The New Order has been delayed until 2014, according to a new interview with Bethesda Softworks marketing VP Pete Hines at Polygon. The MachineGames re-boot had been planned for a...
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The Elder Scrolls Anthology bundles every mudcrab, dragon, and potato-faced...
At QuakeCon last night, Bethesda announced The Elder Scrolls Anthology, a special edition retail release containing every TES game, expansion and DLC pack. That’s a hell of a lot of prison escapes,...
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Prey 2 not being developed by Arkane, claim Bethesda
In typical sci-fi fashion, Prey 2 has been through more than a few plot twists. It was dead, then it wasn’t, then it was in suspended animation. There was talk of political machinations, of failed...
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Wolfenstein: The New Order hands-on – fighting Nazis in the Moon Dome
This article was originally published in PC Gamer UK issue 255. BJ Blazkowicz thunders around the gantry that orbits the edge of the Moon Dome. He has an enormous shotgun in each hand, and the noise...
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Dishonored: Game of the Year edition announced, bundles game and DLC bits
You fool! You didn’t actually buy the excellent first-person sneak ‘n stabber Dishonored, did you? As always, the fiscally sensible (read: boring) thing to do was wait for this: the Game of the Year...
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The Evil Within trailer shows bad omens, ignores them
An asylum surrounded by abandoned police cars, a main character rushing to the scene, the unmistakable sense that Bad Things are afoot. But what happens next? Is it: a) cheery resolution, joviality...
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