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#theelderscrolls People love to collect in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. More »

Bethesda is in the process of pushing out an update for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim to address a number of issues players have been experiencing since launch. According the official blog, the patch is now out for PlayStation 3 users in Europe and will be live in North America soon. Xbox 360 and PC players can expect the patch on November 30...

PS3 users have been reporting severe Skyrim performance issues over the last couple of weeks, and now it appears that Bethesda has released a patch to solve the problems - in Europe at least. According to Bethesda forum members, the 92MB patch has alleviated several issues, improving the frame rate and reducing the number of freezes. Some users, however, are reporting that the patch doesn't fix the problem and a system restart is still required every few hours.

We've contacted Bethesda to find out exactly what the PS3 patch contains. For the moment, the Xbox 360 patch, which is supposed to iron out some texture scaling issues and is also slated for release this week, is not yet available.

#theelderscrolls The PS3 version of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is buggy. Since launch, PS3 owners have been encountering difficulties that make the game not only slowdown, but unplayable. Today, Skyrim players are reporting a patch was released. More »

#theelderscrolls So you want to look like Skyrim's Dragonborn but don't want to go to the snow, get beat up and punch a lot of wolves in the face. Next best thing? Buying a plush Dragonborn hat. More »

#theelderscrolls Actually, this guy isn't even a midget. He's more like a Fraggle. With a sword. More »

Odds are you've fallen off a mountain, been pounded by a giant or gobbled up by a dragon in Skyrim, but have you ever tried shouting at a priest? OD on skooma? Skyrim's a dangerous place, so you best study up on the myriad ways you can die.

Do you wish you could dedicate every moment of your life to Skyrim, dreading the seconds you have to leave the game to go to the bathroom, get Taco Bell or -- the absolute worst -- go to work and function in greater society? Fear not, intrepid Skyrimmer (ew), because now there's a way to take the game's lore on your iPad, iPhone, Nook, Kindle and other e-readers and tablets.

Capane.us has transferred all of the books from Skyrim into real fake book form, complete with a table of contents, headings and a cover. To download all of the Skyrim books, open this link in your reader of choice, click the download option and travel well forevermore. Or until you finish reading them all.

#theelderscrolls The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim doesn't only boast a vast in-game world. It also has a vast array of in-game books. The amount of text for you to peruse is mind blogging. More »

#theelderscrolls Maybe it's not cheating, not entirely. It's really just finding a way to take advantage in a world with endless possibilities. More »

I’m not a wizened grumblepuss who only enjoys the oldest of RPGs, honest I’m not! I’ve even finally managed to play some Skyrim this week and that’s probably the newest RPG in the world. Unlike most people, I haven’t actually done very much yet; instead I’ve been tinkering around to see how far I can push it before my computer starts weeping tears of molten graphics card. Mostly visual tweaks but there’s some lovely stuff here. To round things off, my favourite new Mount and Blade mod, which I mentioned before its release and now urge you all to download. Urge, you hear?

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#timrogers A gambling man once bet me a hundred dollars he could think of something I couldn't convincingly pretend to dislike immensely. Fifteen minutes later, he was crying, and I was on my way to buy a new pair of shoes. More »

There is no shortage of ways to die in Skyrim, as this musical video shows. Just over 14-minutes long and set to an Elvis number, 100 Ways to Die in Skyrim features everything from abusing a chicken to leaping into a pool of magma...

#kingdomsofamalurreckoning The lead designer behind The Elder Scrolls III and IV, the creator of Morrowind and Oblivion wants nothing to do with the latest entry in the storied franchise. More »

#theelderscrolls YouTube user juicythezombie likes to hoard stuff in Skyrim. Unlike the junk collector we've seen previously, though, he only stashes weapons. Then tries to break his PC by using a shout on them. More »

#theelderscrolls You may look at Skyrim through the lens of a person who likes video games. Or as someone with an interest in fantasy, or Nordic mythology, or even the structure of game design. I bet you've never looked at it through the lens of a fake conservative Christian columnist. More »

#video This fourteen and a half minute long video delivers 100 ways to die in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (and more than a few laughs) set to Elvis' A Little Less Coversation. More »

Bethesda's latest version of The Elder Scrolls series, Skyrim, appears to be a success. Sales following the November 11 launch were impressive, even edging out Modern Warfare 3 on Steam in terms of popularity on launch weekend. Though the game isn't without issues, many that play have been floored by the experience...

#theelderscrolls In the PC version of role-playing game Skyrim, there is a string of code which will allow players to spawn dragons. The creatures, as previously mentioned, aren't exactly flying around in huge packs in the game. More »

#theelderscrolls Bethesda's latest RPG hit presents players with lots of things to see, hear and shout at. You can add taste to that list of action words, too, Gus Mastrapa's already cataloged what he's been eating in the game's virtual world but the lads at Joystiq have brought one of Tamriel's medieval recipes into the modern-day kitchen. More »

"But in order to make the Potage le Magnifique truly magnificent, it takes the imagination of a truly inspired chef. Do you have that gift?" - The Gourmet, Uncommon Taste
Skyrim's civil strife, political intrigue and high adventure are best experienced on a full stomach. Good thing the lands of the north have The Gourmet's Uncommon Taste cookbook. The Potage le Magnifique is described in the in-game book as The Gourmet's signature dish, a simple alchemical culinary concoction of stock, vegetables and flour.

Joystiq editor Dave Hinkle and I went through the process of creating The Gourmet's simple porridge potion that has "caused grown men to weep with with joy." Head on past the break for our text-based culinary adventure, or download our experience in audio form from iTunes, Zune or DnAFoodcast.com.

#theelderscrolls It's the game's one true oversight: the fact you can't pick up a lute in Skyrim and jam out a ditty to ladies in towers and monsters slain. Ah well. This'll have to make do. More »

Proving yet again that LEGO will play an insidious role in the impending robot apocalypse, enterprising YouTube user comicsacrifice has constructed a bot that automatically levels his restoration skill in Skyrim. The takeaway: Robots are now learned in the ways of magic. We tremble in terror.

#theelderscrolls This isn't the most amazing, but YouTube user Ross3's "apple shot" is pretty damn great. More »

It should come as no surprise that Bethesda's massive Skyrim needs some patching and last night, the first patch, weighing in at a humble 18MB, arrived for the PC platform. Unfortunately, this patch didn't address any of the game's bugs; rather, it prevented the main executable from running without Steam. "DRM," you cry, waving your makeshift pitchfork in the air. Well, yes ... but a bigger problem than that, as detailed by the good-looking folks at Rock, Paper, Shotgun, is that the patch disables some of the game's more popular mods.

Initially the patch disabled the large address aware third-party patch that allowed the Skyrim executable to, well, address larger amounts of RAM. For some reason, the game will only recognize a maximum of 2GB of RAM (or: the same amount of RAM that a bathroom scale has). Luckily a workaround has cropped up that doesn't need to alter the executable and life goes on. However, the "fabled uGrids .ini file tinker that made the game's icy landscapes look significantly more gorgeous" is no longer operational post-update. RPS isn't bullish on long-term patch support from Bethesda, so consider this a warning if you're considering playing PC and have a religious or philosophical opposition to being unable to mod your software.

Last week, we asked you to vote in our unscientific polls, asking PS3 gamers what issues they were having with Skyrim, if any. This came on the heels of reported problems for Skyrim on PS3, problems that should be fixed with a patch that's coming after Thanksgiving...

You might have thought the world of Skyrim was big, but we can guarantee that, until now, you had absolutely no idea. As discovered by a Finnish blogger, Bethesda not only modeled the Nordic playground of Skyrim for the game, but much of the Elder Scrolls world of Tamriel. Why is it all in there? Your guess is as good as ours.

Here on PPSh-41, you'll see that thought the scale is a bit off, and some details are awry, but the lands of Morrowind and Cyrodiil are right there available to those willing to do a little no-clip exploration. Your guide, 19-year-old Jesse, assumes that the other major landmasses are in there too, but he lacked the patience to check for himself.

It's a shame too, because if he'd traveled just a bit further, he would have discovered 3D models of the Mushroom Kingdom, Seaman's tank and his own home.

#theelderscrolls This is Lara and Taylor playing the theme music to The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. More »

#theelderscrolls The Taiwanese news animators at NMA take on the newest Elder Scrolls game with a news report that covers Skyrim's blockbuster launch and pesky bugs. It's ironic to see NMA shining a spotlight on a title's bugs when their own lo-fi, CGI oeuvre seems to be drawn from Will Wright's nightmares. This clip isn't as bloodthirsty as the Tanooki Mario one, but has a voyeuristic Grim Reaper and a baby with a glowing forehead tattoo. Just keep the crazy coming, NMA. More »

So. I lost a bet with myself. Now I owe myself fifty quid. Thanks a bunch, Internet. I was certain, absolutely certain, that the majority of you would have pursued mostly wizardly activities in Skyrim, what with all the magic and the magic college and everything. But not so. The majority of the twenty thousand people who polled in our Skyrim survey played as warriors, with mages coming in second. Amazingly assassins and thieves were neck and neck with 14% each. There’s a 13% bunch of hangars on who couldn’t actually figure out what they’d spent most of their time doing of course, but then this is an Elder Scrolls game, so perhaps we’ll forgive the ambiguity.

Ooh, I can feel another poll coming on. Any suggestions?