In Real Life

Screw With Your Skyrim Friends Using Two Simple Voice Commands

They’ve sort of added multiplayer to Skyrim via the game’s new Kinect voice-control update. Not real multiplayer. Not the kind that lets two people play the game together or against each other. No, they’ve simply added voice commands. But when a friend barges in on your gaming session and yells “ally attack” and then “quicksave” while you’re just visiting a town, well, you get the best kind of griefing that you usually can only get from multiplayer games.


April 19, 2012
In Real Life

Skyrim’s ‘Arrow In The Knee’ Makes A Guest Appearance On NCIS

I used to think the CBS Naval Intelligence procedural NCIS was a show aimed squarely at the extremely mature crowd, until a recent episode took an arrow in the knee.


April 12, 2012
In Real Life

A Song Built From The Sounds Of Skyrim

We seen more than our fair share of covers of Skyrim‘s bombastic theme music over the past six months. Now it’s time for a little something different: an original song pieced together using sounds recorded from the Xbox 360 version of the game.


February 22, 2012
In Real Life

The Black Hand Is Alive And Well In Episode Three Of Skyrim 2012

What started as a simple robbery in episode one of the live-action series Skyrim 2012 was upgraded to murder in episode two, and where there’s murder, there’s The Black Hand.


February 7, 2012
In Real Life

A Bookseller’s Video Game Lament

I play Skyrim obsessively, like lots of people. I’m also a full-time antiquarian book dealer and during my glorious attempts to become a leather-clad death machine in The Elder Scrolls V, I’m always tempted to make some in-game coin on the side collecting and selling the hundreds of available antiquarian titles.


February 2, 2012
PC

Here’s How Skyrim’s Creation Kit Lets You Make Mod Magic

Bethesda previously announced the Skyrim Creation Kit, which will let PC users re-invent their hit RPG in unimagined ways.


December 15, 2011
PC

How Skyrim Could Damage The U.S. Economy (Sorta)

First we have Wired magazine’s Geek Dad mock-fretting that the wonderful time-sink of Skyrim may be hurting the productivity of the American worker and therefore may drag the nation’s economy down.


December 12, 2010

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Unveiled, Dated For 2011

newVideoPlayer( {"type":"video","player":"http://www.gametrailers.com/remote_wrap.php?mid=708368","customParams":[] ,"width":500,"height":408.5,"ratio":0.817,"flashData":"","embedName":null,"objectId":null,"noEmbed":false,"source":"gametrailers","wrap":true,"agegate":false} );Bethesda Softworks just announced the fifth game in the Elder Scrolls series, the sequel to The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, will be called Skyrim. And it’ll be out next year.