A gamer paid his last respects to a Skyrim disc from the 2011 midnight release – after 15 years of continuous use, it stopped reading
Physical media collectors love to repeat that a disc can't be deleted from a server and stays with its owner forever. Optical media doesn't know about that promise, and it falls apart on its own...
The Elder Scrolls Skyrim with 1800 mods looks like a next-gen gacha
Mods for The Elder Scrolls Skyrim have no ceiling – only the limits of your hardware and your taste. You start by upgrading grass textures, and a year later you've got 1800 plugins installed, Helgen...
Skyrim fans reminded that fire arrows and paralysis turn bandits into ballistic projectiles
Physics in Bethesda games rarely behaves the way developers intended. But sometimes two harmless elements combine into something that sends an enemy flying past the horizon faster than they can process what just happened. The...
Gamer created a handy guide for finding all the Barenziah Stones in Skyrim and claims you'll "definitely thank him later"
Some quests are memorable for their story, and some are memorable for making players grab a notebook. "Thank Me Later" falls into the second category: two dozen identical purple stones scattered across Skyrim without a...
Skyrim players and modders raise money for lawyers after complaint from ENBSeries developer
In early August 2026, the Community Shaders team released an update that turned the open-source graphics framework for Skyrim into a direct competitor to ENBSeries. A few weeks later, ENBSeries developer Boris Vorontsov filed a...
New mod for Skyrim adds localized damage and reworked weapon balance
Modder Seb263 has released a mod for The Elder Scrolls V that adds a localized damage system, armor effectiveness, weapon balance, and combat context for deeper, more tactical fights. Going into more detail, the mod...
Gamers unanimously consider the lockpicking skill tree in Skyrim to be the most useless, while the final archery skill is simply broken
Skyrim has a special category of perks that seem designed to waste precious perk points. These are abilities that either duplicate each other or become pointless right around the time a player finally reaches them....
The developer of Lord of the Rings: War in the North literally begged WB Games not to release the game a week before Skyrim's release, but they weren't listened to
Lord of the Rings: War in the North is suddenly back in the spotlight – the Legacy Edition remaster has picked up a warm welcome on Steam and a "Very Positive" rating. The original 2011...
After almost 15 years, snow deformation, which was considered technically impossible, has been added to Skyrim
Modder Josef Rudberg has shown off a working version of snow deformation for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, a mechanic the community had long considered impossible on the Creation Engine. In the video, a Nord...
Skyrim fan only learned after 200 hours in the game that he was supposed to sleep in a bed
Spending hundreds of hours in an open world without noticing an entire mechanic sounds like a bug, but in Skyrim it's just a natural result of how the game treats sleep. Rest isn't required for...
Skyrim player showed bread and a piece of cheese in 8K from a 600 GB mod pack
The LoreRim modpack for Skyrim has become the perfect example of what texture resolution wars have done to modding. The install eats up as much space as a dozen modern game releases combined, and the...
An investigation has begun in Canada – how a mistake in a Skyrim fan's nickname led to an innocent man spending 18 months in prison
Canadian officials have launched an investigation into how an innocent man ended up spending 18 months behind bars after police confused his username, inspired by Skyrim, with a nearly identical account. Brandon Klayme was acquitted...
A gamer revealed that his late grandfather left behind an official Skyrim guidebook, sparking an existential crisis among fans of the series
A gamer recently shared photos online of an official Skyrim guide found among the belongings of their recently deceased grandfather, calling the book "old merch." That phrase hit the audience harder than the story itself...
A dead Falmer embraces a captive in Dwemer ruins, and it's one of the darkest details in Skyrim
Skyrim has trained players to look for stories where none officially exist. Stumble across a couple of corpses frozen in an unnatural pose, and the brain does the rest, filling in a tragedy complete with...
A gamer crafted a novice mage's robe from Skyrim in real life – he was hindered by both the game itself and the weather
Armor from Skyrim rarely survives contact with the real world unscathed. Patching a texture in a game engine is one thing – figuring out what material something is actually made of when the models themselves...
Skywind mod keeps showing what a Morrowind remake in Skyrim's engine could look like
The Skywind team has shared another look at their ambitious project to bring The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind into Skyrim's engine. The showcase took place during the C3 charity streamathon – an annual fan-run event...
An artist spent 60 hours turning Whiterun from a village of 74 into a realistic city of 15,000
Whiterun in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is the largest city in the province – home to exactly 74 people. One artist decided to fix that injustice and spent over 60 hours creating a detailed...
Skyrim player accidentally drives hawks to extinction and can't bring them back
One of the defining features of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is the almost complete absence of lasting consequences for player actions. You can kill, steal, and destroy entire factions, yet the world continues as...
Skyrim player reopens The Elder Scrolls fans' oldest wound – why do female Argonians have breasts?
The Elder Scrolls is a series where you can become a vampire-werewolf, devour a dragon's soul, and sign contracts with daedric princes. But sometimes fans notice things impossible to unsee or forget – like the...
Fan-made Oblivion remake on Skyrim engine showcased in new screenshots following release delay
TES Renewal Project – a team of volunteers creating an unofficial fan remake of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion called Skyblivion – has resurfaced several weeks after announcing a release delay. The developers published new...
