The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Skyrim and the Compass to Nowhere

The editors at GameRanx have penned an editorial on Skyrim’s compass and journal, and how they supposedly negatively affect the player’s playstyle. Here’s a snip: I would be happy to say that Skyrim was pushing me towards a different style…

GB Feature: Game of the Year 2011 Awards

Yet another year has passed by, and much to our grinning surprise, it’s going to go down in the history books as one of the best twelve-month stretches of role-playing game releases in, well, a very long time. And with…

Game of the Year 2011

Yet another year has passed by, and much to our grinning surprise, it’s going to go down in the history books as one of the best twelve-month stretches of role-playing game releases in, well, a very long time. And while…

GB Feature: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Review

After clocking in over 100 hours with the game, we’ve finally reached the point where we’re ready to publish our full review of Bethesda’s The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Make yourself comfortable for a four-page read: Where Skyrim really shines…

Eurogamer’s Games of 2011

Things have been pretty quiet around the web during the holidays, but that hasn’t stopped Eurogamer from putting together a series of “Games of 2011” articles that go into surprising detail on many of the titles released over the past…

Skyrim and Gaming’s Old School Myth and Legend

There’s a new opinion piece entitled “Skyrim and Gaming’s Old School Myth and Legend” up on Gamasutra, during which the author waxes nostalgic about the experiences we used to have with video games in the 1980s and 1990s before diving…

Cliffski on The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim’s NPCs

Positech Games’ Cliff “Cliffski” Harris taps into his indie game development experience to blog about the lack of progress Skyrim has made when it comes to NPC interactions. In short, he finds them “staggeringly stupid” and lacking dialogue, thanks to…

Can I Craft That For You?

For a new blog entry on Gamasutra, our own Eric Schwarz provides an analysis of the crafting systems that have been made available to us in both single-player and multiplayer RPGs, including those found in World of Warcraft, Risen, Sequence,…

Skyrim The Best Video RPG Game Ever

I have to tell you that I’m not easily impressed. But from the very moment I first fired up The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim on my Xbox 360 I knew I was in for something special. From the game’s opening…