Zenimax Media has announced The Elder Scrolls Online, taking the popularise franchise into the genre of massively multiplayer for the first time ever. Game Informer has the exclusive scoop, who will be presenting the official reveal in their June issue. The Elder Scrolls Online will reportedly take place "a millennium before the events of Skyrim," featuring three warring player factions. The new MMO is being developed by Zenimax Online Studios, headed by Matt Firor, a Mythic Entertainment veteran who

Unfortunately for our PlayStation 3 brethren, they may never see a fix to the biggest issue plaguing their Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim experience. Fallout: New Vegas director, Joshua Sawyer, says the 'PS3 lag' problem is an "an engine-level issue with how the save game data is stored" and would take a "large time commitment" to fix. Elaborating, he said "the longer you play a character, the more bit differences on objects (characters, pencils on tables, containers, etc.) get saved off and carried aro...

Yesterday's The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim patch has fixed some issues but created a whole lot of new ones, players are reporting. Character resistances no longer work in post-patch, meaning you'll have no protection from fire, ice, magic and so-forth - leaving you to take full damage. Oh, and dragons can fly backwards now.

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Skyrim is the latest installment in the Elder Scrolls franchise, and after over 40 hours of play, we finally feel we have seen enough of the game to justify a balanced review. While it received almost universal praise from critics in early reviews, Skyrim is not a game without issues. But whatever its flaws, the scale of the world is undeniably impressive, with enough content to rival many MMOs. Almost unbearably slow to start, you are eventually introduced to a world filled with the type of adv...

Skyrim is out and boy is it creating some waves. A quick round-up of reviews reveals that it already has over half a dozen perfect-scores, amongst many others that are very near perfect. Here are just a few of them with some choices quotes that should get even those not particularly interest in the RPG genre excited about this game. Eurogamer: 10/10 - "It evokes a word that's overused in reviewing of all kinds: one that's best kept in the cellar in a plainly marked box and reserved only for th...

Skyrim's release date has been broken and is now being sold at EB Games, Game and Harvey Norman. For now, Harvey Norman is by far the best deal, but let us know if any other retailers such as JB HI-FI have gotten in on the action. Unfortunately for PC gamers, you'll still have to wait for the game's midnight unlock for Steam....

If you've pre-purchased The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim on Steam, using a VPN so as to avoid region price gouging I would hope, you can now begin pre-loading ready for the game's release in t-minus 34 hours. If you haven't yet bought it and don't know what I'm talking about regarding prices: please don't buy it for $90 on the AU Steam store....

Game Trailers have published a developer walkthrough video showcasing highly anticipated The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Impressively, the gorgeous footage is running on the Xbox 360 - we can't wait to see it running on PC. The game's out for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 on November 11, 2011...

An unnamed source has leaked information that Bethesda is working on a direct sequel to 2006's Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, says Eurogamer. It is claimed that this source confirms that "the game is in current production" and also spoke about content. This isn't official confirmation, of course. But we'll take it!...

Gaming blog VG247 is reporting that a "very reliable" source has leaked information that Bethesda is working on a massively-multiplayer-online title. Furthermore, they're already 3 years into development and is "very close" to being unveiled. It's said that the game's dev cycle kicked off in 2006, and is due out in 2011. To aid these claims are the court documents used in an ongoing Bethesda vs Interplay lawsuit. These documents disclose that "close to 100 people working on a secret World of Warcraft-type MMO", which Bethesda has apparently filed to redact....