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March 10, 2016

Todd Howard on Lifetime Achievement Award, Bethesda’s Projects, Turning Down Movie Deals

The folks at GamesIndustry have published a long chat with Bethesda game director Todd Howard that spans a number of subjects, from the Lifetime Achievement award he’s going to receive at GDC, to Bethesda and Howard’s future projects and aspirations.…

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March 5, 2016

The Elder Scrolls: Skywind Mod Dev Diary #4

The modding team that’s currently working on the ambitious Skywind, a reimagining of the original The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind in Skyrim’s engine, has published a new development update video to let us know where they stand in terms of…

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February 29, 2016

Heroes Don’t Craft

Richard Cobbett has penned an analysis – more of a rant, really – of crafting in RPGs and other video games that comes to a simple, very basic conclusion: heroes don’t craft. Cobbett’s comical frustrations aside, many complaints in the piece…

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February 19, 2016

Bethesda Has Three Big Projects in Development Concurrently

During his conversation with comedian Pete Holmes at this year’s DICE, Todd Howard revealed that the team at Bethesda Game Studios is currently working on three “longer-term projects” that will be “in many ways” different from anything the studio has…

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February 12, 2016

Why Are RPGs so Hard to Classify and Evolve?

Felipe Pepe, driving force and editor behind the upcoming CRPG Book, has shared an editorial/rant (by his own admission) on Gamasutra. In the article, Pepe traces a brief history of role-playing video games to explain why the genre is so…

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February 7, 2016

The Witcher and The Elder Scrolls Series Graphics Evolution Videos

It’s been a number of years since I played the original The Witcher and a far longer period of time since I journeyed through The Elder Scrolls: Arena, so these two four-minute videos taking us through each series’ graphical evolution…

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February 5, 2016

Todd Howard to be Honored with Lifetime Achievement Award at GDC

Bethesda Game Studios game director Todd Howard has had an impressive career so far, spanning from the often overlooked shooter The Terminator: Future Shock to the recently released million-seller Fallout 4. Howard’s career is so impressive, in fact, that he’ll…

BuckGB
January 23, 2016

Should Bethesda Invest in a New Game Engine?

With a critical eye on the performance of the Gamebryo engine that powers both The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion and Fallout 3, as well as the newer Creation Engine that powers The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and Fallout 4, the…

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December 23, 2015

The Elder Scrolls V: Skywind 2016 Video Preview

We’ve been keeping tabs on the progress of the impressive Skywind total conversion for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, which aims to bring the Morrowind experience to the latest Elder Scrolls engine, for the last two years or so, and…

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December 9, 2015

Bethesda Game Studios Opens New Office in Montreal

Given recent discussions about whether Bethesda’s team is big enough to handle the development of their huge games, the news that they opened a new office in Montreal with a team of 40 developers is undoubtedly very interesting. The new studio is…