The Switch is such a familiar part of the gaming landscape now that it's strange to consider that Nintendo's hybrid device is about to head into its first holiday season. What's even stranger is that for Baby's First Christmas, Nintendo's lineup is overloaded with deep single-player fantasy adventures: Role-playing games Skyrim and Xenoblade Chronicles, and the RPG-tinged action of Fire Emblem Warriors.

Every year at Dragon Con, there are some Christian protesters hanging around angry that everyone is loving nerd shit instead of Jesus. And almost every year, Heimskr from Skyrim is there to join them in their preaching.

Earlier this year footage came out of what it was like to play Skyrim on the Switch, at least in handheld mode. And if you were wondering how the game holds up in docked mode, PAX West is here to deliver.

It's clear that Bethesda is going to squeeze every last dollar it can out of Skyrim. A bunch of those will come from the VR port of the open-world RPG, which we haven't seen much of since E3 earlier this year. This weekend's Quakecon was Bethesda chance to demo a build and dispel some of the cynicism surrounding it. Unfortunately, reports suggest it failed. Hard.

Art dealer Cook & Becker (who put out that Sonic book we looked at on Monday) have something else to show this week: a series of quality art prints featuring concept art from Skyrim.

Social NPCs is a mod for Skyrim that takes the clockwork non-playable characters from two of the game's smaller locations and turns them into believable people with lives to lead completely independent of what you're up to.

If you want to see what it's like to relive that trailer, here's some over-the-shoulder footage of Skyrim on the Switch.

There are thousands of "adult" mods for Skyrim. Find out which one you are in this quiz.

Sitting on the edge of the Cyrodiil province in Oblivion, the mountainous snowscape known as Bruma has been recreated in Skyrim thanks to modders. The fan-expansion was released recently and includes new quests, dialogue, and music.

On 11 June 2017, Bethesda announced Creation Club, a platform through which users on PC, PS4 and Xbox One will be able to purchase content for Skyrim and Fallout 4 developed in partnership between Bethesda and “the very best” third party content developers.

When Bethesda announced paid mods in 2015, the internet exploded in anger. A week later, everything got cancelled. Last weekend, Bethesda revealed the "Creation Club," another stab at the concept of premium mods, and fans are wary that history is going to repeat itself.

The Nintendo Switch version of Skyrim will come with some special goodies and JoyCon-specific control schemes, as we can see in this new footage released by Bethesda tonight.

Remember paid mods and the fiasco that ensued after they launched? Well, Bethesda wants you to know that Creation Club — coming this summer to Skyrim and Fallout 4 — isn't that. But it does sound kinda similar.

The greatest tragedy in my life is that I am allergic to cats. I'd normally supplant my desire for cat ownership by getting one in a video game, but, a cursory look at the mods on Nexus shows me that video game cats in popular games like Skyrim and Fallout 4 aren't quite right. Here are the things Bethesda games get wrong about virtual cats, and the ways highly-endorsed cat mods on Nexus fix those issues.

One of the hottest mods for Skyrim right now makes children killable. While that's not a new feature in the modding world, the person that made this particular mod really wants you to know this is the definitive child murder mod.

When a company like Bethesda is trying to debug a massive game like Skyrim, where do they even start? Skyrim lead programmer Brett Douville tackled that question (and much more) on this week's episode of Kotaku Splitscreen.

On PC, mods are the lifeblood of games like Skyrim and Fallout. Console owners eventually got mods too, but it's not the same: the PS4 version of the game is severely limited by small file sizes and the inability to use external file assets. The joy of watching Thomas the Tank Engine careen across the sky might never grace Sony consoles, but even so, mod creators on the PS4 are still finding ways to make some pretty cool shit, as you'll see in this video.

Skyrim is already a perfect video game fantasy to replicate the shenanigans of Westeros, so why not go one step further and recreate the world entirely?

Skyrim has plenty of dragons, warriors and adventure. One of the more disappointing features, however, is romance. In this video, we discuss the shortcomings of vanilla romanceable NPCS, and how modders such as myself sought to create more realistic relationships in a classic RPG.