Zenimax Online’s Matt Firor sat down with ZAM for a fairly lengthy interview recently, in which he answered some questions about the upcoming closed beta of The Elder Scrolls Online. Which game, by the way, was recently previewed by EDGE, and will be playable at the upcoming Gamescom in Cologne, Germany.

Gamasutra took a look at the modular approach to level design used in Skyrim.

Shinji Mikami gave some details about The Evil Within on the upcoming game’s official forums. The hero will be a detective named Sebastian, and the game will be called Psycho Break in Japan for reasons of pronunciation.

And OpenMW version 0.23.0 was released this week, not without issues but nevertheless bringing in a number of changes, improvements, and newly-implemented features. Many bugs died…to bring us this update.