Did you know that you can see Morrowind from Skyrim in Skyrim?

And apparently there’s a good reason for it:

“The reason they are there – and I will not say if we are or are not using them in the future – is when we first built the landmass for Skyrim we knew we were going to have these tall mountains.

And what can you see see? We have views early in the project where you can see into the [neighbouring] province from the other game. We needed to have something [there].

It’s not high detail. If you walk there, from a distance it’s…yeah, the stuff is there. And the thinking is, maybe we’ll use it one day, but our larger worry was, I’m going to climb up on top of a mountain and look that way. What will I be able to see there? We try to cover all those angles as much as we can.”

Two million Skyrim mods have already been downloaded.

And yes, I know that people were modding the game before the toolkit was officially released. Still, the game itself is pretty new, and the toolkit only just came out…so that’s still a pretty staggering number.

Skyrim of course won Game of the Year…

…at the Interactive Achievement Awards.

Skyrim Creation Kit tutorials!

Bethesda are in the midst of releasing a ten-part series of videos outlining the use of the Skyrim Creation Kit. Here’s the first one:

You can find the rest of the installments they have released thus far at their YouTube channel. It looks like they’re already up to the ninth episode!

Meaningless choices.

An interesting and potentially controversial editorial that argues, and then not badly, that while Skyrim offers gameplay freedom that is second to none, games like Dragon Age 2 offer more compelling choices during gameplay…with better rewards.

Bethesda remembers Adam Adamowicz.

Adamowicz was evidently a level designer at Bethesda Softworks, who passed away from cancer shortly after the completion of Skyrim. Bethesda has put up a tribute page for him. It’s quite touching; go check it out.

Why the PS3 hates Skyrim.

One popular theory was that the lag on PS3 was due to a gamer’s large save files.

“No it’s not,” Howard said. “That’s the common misconception. It’s literally the things you’ve done in what order and what’s running. Some of the things are literally what spells do you have hot-keyed? Because, as you switch to them, they handle memory differently.”

Howard said his developers knew that the PS3 was going to run into a “bad memory situation” and tried to tweak their code to prevent it from happening. He believes only “a small percentage” of gamers would run into this issues, but it was enough for Bethesda to want to fix things post-release.

“The 1.2 patch [released in November] took care of a lot of it,” he said.

Problem solved? Gamers all relieved and in the clear? Not after that 1.2 patch.

Seriously…why would you play a game like Skyrim on console anyway? Especially on the current, absurdly dated generation of consoles, which can barely handle Unreal Engine 3 at full spec.