Here's what real dishes from Skyrim look like in real life
Virtual food in games usually exists just to top off a health bar or tweak character stats. But spend enough time staring at the texture details on plates in Skyrim, and sooner or later a...
IKEA to launch collaboration with Skyrim before The Elder Scrolls 6 release
IKEA announced an unexpected collaboration with The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. The official IKEA accounts for Ireland and the United Kingdom posted a promo video on Instagram showing familiar items from the game piled up...
15 years later, Skyrim fans noticed that Todd Howard was playing a fully leveled mage during the demo
The E3 2011 demo for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim has been quoted to death over the years, with Todd Howard mountain line still standing as the most famous bit. Fifteen years later, fans went...
Skyrim player launched DLSS 5 with 4000 mods on RTX 4080 Super
A YouTuber going by fjeldar tested a leaked build of Nvidia neural rendering tech in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, running it on top of a modlist with more than four thousand mods. The test...
YouTuber created an exact replica of Whiterun from Skyrim using 80,000 LEGO pieces
Fan builds based on video games happen all the time, but once in a while something comes along that makes even people indifferent to LEGO stop and stare. That's the effect a massive LEGO recreation...
Gamer showed a typical morning in Skyrim after a couple of mods – with Soviet T-34-85 tanks and bomber dragons
Modding Skyrim stopped being about "tweak some textures and add a couple of swords" a long time ago. Fourteen years after release, the community keeps stress-testing Bethesda engine, and every time it turns out there's...
Oblivion and Skyrim have completely different types of thieves guilds – how The Elder Scrolls changed its attitude toward crime
Factions in RPGs rarely amount to just a set of quests. A guild is a way to explore a world from the inside, through the profession and morality of the people who survive in it....
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...
