Todd Howard

In Real Life

What Will Skyrim’s Boss Say As D.I.C.E. 2012 Opens? Watch Here.

1:00PM Yesterday | Owen Good

Todd Howard, the game director for Bethesda Game Studios (The Elder Scrolls, Fallout) is the keynote speaker opening the D.I.C.E. Summit, the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences’ annual conclave in Las Vegas. Howard’s address, whose livestream, courtesy of GameSpot, is embedded below, will cover “Why We Create, Why We Play.” More »


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Enjoy 20 Minutes Of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

5:40AM September 13, 2011 | Michael McWhertor

Lock the door. Have your secretary hold your calls for the next 20 minutes. Grab a beverage. Settle in for a nice 20-minute chunk of gameplay from The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, informatively narrated by game director Todd Howard. More »


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5 More Things I’ve Learned About Skyrim, Murder And Encumberance

3:00PM September 2, 2011 | Stephen Totilo

Fifteen minutes of play time with the fifth Elder Scrolls game isn’t enough. Skyrim is massive. A quarter of an hour in it illuminates the game’s world about as well as stepping just outside of an airport terminal explains a new city. More »


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The Skyrim Team Has A Better Plan For Squashing Bugs This Time

8:20AM August 27, 2011 | Stephen Totilo

As much as people love the expansive video games of Bethesda Softworks, they loathe the bugs — and the surprising preponderance of them that appear with the launch of new Elder Scrolls or Fallout games. More »


PC

The BioShock And Skyrim Show

2:20AM June 18, 2011 | Stephen Totilo

I recently rearranged my life so I could see two important video games: BioShock Infinite and Skyrim. They are two games for which you should rearrange your life—or at least your Thursday in early June. More »


In Real Life

Minecraft’s Creator Plus Skyrim’s Director = Interview Of The Year

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10:00AM June 15, 2011 | Mark Serrels

Markus ‘Notch’ Persson is the creator of Minecraft. He’s also a huge fan of Bethesda and the Elder Scrolls series. So Game Informer had the inspired idea of putting Notch in the same room as Todd Howard, the Game Director of Skyim, and recording the discussion. We recommend that you watch! More »


The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Unveiled, Dated For 2011

12:30PM December 12, 2010 | Michael McWhertor

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. More »


News

Hey – Why Aren’t There Any Ladders In Fallout?

8:30AM August 16, 2010 | Owen Good

Answer: “We’re game development pussies,” Bethesda’s Todd Howard said at a QuakeCon panel on Friday. No really, the engine in Fallout and Elder Scrolls runs into AI problems if ladders are introduced, and the developer just works around them. More »


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BioShock Vs Oblivion

2:30PM July 2, 2010 | Luke Plunkett

Irrational Games, the studio behind BioShock and System Shock 2, has kicked off what looks to be a great series of podcasts in which they interview other top developers. To get things started, Ken Levine interviews Todd Howard. More »


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Bethesda Once Pitched Singleplayer Star Trek RPG

2:20PM January 7, 2010 | Owen Good

Before making Fallout 3, Todd Howard and Bethesda Softworks pitched a sprawling single-player RPG set in the Star Trek universe – of the Shatner Capt. Kirk era, Howard told Kotaku Talk Radio. More »