Bethesda Thursdays

Bethesda’s new Austin-based studio, Battlecry, is looking to bring a senior server engineer, senior concept artist, and senior systems designer on board, to work on an as-yet-unspecified project.

And if you ordered a Skyrim lithograph, this could be some bad news, as it would seem that several were damaged during shipping. Reprints have been ordered, however, but this will delay delivery of the images even so.

Steam users should have received Skyrim’s version 1.9 patch by now, which smashes the game’s level cap and adds a “Legendary” difficulty mode. Alternatively, if you feel like something entirely new and different, why not add a new city to the game with a newly-released fan mod?

The Elder Scrolls Online will be shown off at PAX East, and are also throwing a come-one, come-all party in advance of the event. And just to be clear, the game will be playable at PAX East.

A few more previews of The Elder Scrolls Online have been published, offering generally favourable impressions; the game evidently tries to bring as many conventions from the single-player The Elder Scrolls games into the online realm as it can. That said, it isn’t intended to be Skyrim 2, according to the developers.

Creative director Paul Sage recently gave Massively some details about the game’s crafting systems, PvP, and endgame, while Destructoid was able to confirm that the game will support fully first-person gameplay. Polygon has some new screenshots, Massively has a video showing off various game mechanics, and GameInformer has …actually, this is basically a full-on preview article too.