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.

Using over 260 individual mods, from faces to outfits, UpIsNotJump has managed to recreate the entire original trailer to Game of Thrones using Skyrim.

The whole point of Skyrim's special edition was to improve the game's visuals, but just because Bethesda did it officially doesn't mean folks aren't out there trying to make things look even better.

Cosmic Contrarian, the man behind countless ridiculous custom Fallout 4 battles, tells us that this epic encounter between 100 dragons and 1000 archers would have been impossible to stage in the original release of Skyrim, especially at 4K resolution.

The remastered version of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim has gone gold in advance of its October 28 release, and Bethesda has released the recommended PC specs for running the prettier version of the 2011 RPG.

Way back in 2013, I wrote about a mod called Enderal, a very ambitious attempt at creating an all-new game out of Skyrim's bones, with a new map, new buildings, new characters, the works. Shockingly, considering the way most of these things usually go, it's actually finished!

Time flies. Skyrim has been out for nearly five years, giving its mod scene time to grow and change and then change again. It's a culture unto itself, one that's weathered identity crises and that whole money fiasco. So, all these years later, where does it stand?

iriarsham posted these screenshots over the weekend, to remind us all that despite its advancing years and creaking engine, Skyrim — with help from fans — continues to look absolutely stunning.

Dayshot: Skywind, part of the Elder Scrolls Renewal project, aims to recreate Morrowind in Skyrim's engine. It has been in development since 2012 and probably won't be ready for a while. To help cope with that fact, I look at the team's progress videos as mere instances of 3D Morrowind fan art. So let's look at some fan art!

Daedra Hearts aren't just for gold and health potions anymore.

johnskyrim is a modder who likes to bring over stuff from other games, like World of Warcraft and Runescape, to — you guessed it — TES V: Skyrim. This is his latest project: Quel'Delar, Might of the Faithful, a reward from WoW's "Return of Quel'Delar" quest chain. You can grab the mod here on the Nexus and here on Steam.

I would very much like to play this version of Skyrim. Modder UniqueUses has been playing around with Bethesda's last Elder Scrolls game, and while I've seen plenty of visual mods for Skyrim, this is something else. They recently uploaded a series of work-in-progress screen shots to Imgur for what they're calling "Toon Skyrim".

Serious question. I mean, this recreation of Half-Moon Mill is something I should be able to click on and have in my house, not simply admire from afar.

We've all been there. You pick up your keys, pick up your jacket, grab your bag and suddenly you're over-encumbered.

So awpluke and some friends thought they'd spice their D&D game up by replacing a table with a flipped-over 50" TV. Then putting Skyrim on that TV.

Why did someone make this? Why? Remember that horrifying Thomas The Tank Engine mod for Skyrim? The one that turned dragons in howling, demon-possessed husks of the childhood favourite? Yeah, well Trainwiz's Funny Followers mod does it one better.

Skyrim may be a video game from 2011 — like dogs years, this makes it almost old — but it's still one of the best-looking video games on the planet, as you can see in these incredible screenshots.

Just because not everyone celebrates Christmas doesn't mean Christmas can't come to everybody. Even the NPCs in Skyrim.

It's not that Malacath, the patron Daedra of Elder Scrolls' orc race, is a bad guy. He's just into solving problems with violence. And he's watching out for ogres and the ogrim because they're outcasts. That's a good guy thing to do, right? I'm sure those skulls are just there for decoration, nothing else.