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North Korea Propaganda Now Uses The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

Not content with images of President Obama in a ball of fire, North Korea’s propaganda arm decided to spice up its latest YouTube video the only way it knows how: with video games.


These Video Game Towns And Villages Were Doomed From The Start

Oh those lovely hometowns, starting villages… Their peaceful and harmonious atmosphere ensures that there’s nothing to worry about; our journey is yet to begin. And then suddenly, it’s all gone, leaving behind nothing but dust. And sometimes a bit of fire.


Let’s Rank The Elder Scrolls Games, Best To Worst

We here at Kotaku have been having a lot of fun with rankings lately, from Halo to Grand Theft Auto to Final Fantasy to Pokémon. And now, it’s time to rank the big daddy of singleplayer RPGs: The Elder Scrolls series.


I Never Thought My Favorite Games Could Look So Good As Eye Make-Up

I don’t ordinarily think of “makeup artist” and “gaming” as going together. After all: the characters whose stories we so ardently follow are virtual people, and they are as fantastic or as plain as any other set of pixels can be.


What Makes A Video Game World Believable?

In today’s Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter Balmung the Apostle Hunter asked what makes a video game world believable and user Fontane has an answer.


What’s The Fine For Necrophilia In Cyrodiil?

Great moments in gaming humour finally makes it to The Elder Scrolls! Just because series stars a silent protagonist doesn’t mean it has to be a dour, humorless affair. It can be an affair with a corpse as well!


Oblivion, Fallout Get Combined Release In March — But Not On PS3

For those whose first foray into Tamriel came this year with The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, the series’ maker is now offering the preceding entry, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion combined with another outstanding role-playing game, Fallout 3. The combo is $US29.99 on Xbox 360, $US19.99 on PC.


Middle Earth Is Being Recreated, Tower By Tower, In The Elder Scrolls

Ever since EA binned The White Council, I’ve been dying for an open-world RPG set in the world of The Lord of the Rings. I am also far from the only one, as a team of modders has been working on building themselves just that, using Bethesda’s Elder Scrolls games as a base.


You Can Hire These People To Write Term-Papers About Anything, Even Video Games

If you want, you can buy your university term papers. This has been true for as long as there have been academic institutions — some students just don’t want to deal with the agony and all-nighters required to pull together a massive paper. They’d rather be socializing than sitting in front of a computer, bleary-eyed, cranking out half-coherent paragraphs about a topic they barely understand.


“Fans Say ‘I Want Something New,’ But Clearly They Want The Same Thing With Less Suck.”

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.


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