"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail" – Ralph Waldo Emerson We live in a world of pre-blazed trails, of Google Maps and endless shelves of travel books detailing every motel, every restaurant. The most amazing discovery most of us are likely to make is a great new burrito place, and even that we ...
Portal 2 Perpetual Testing Initiative success leads to Workshop sale
Valve's "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has already been yielding results, and they provide evidence for the hypothesis that people still like playing Portal 2. Since the DLC's release on May 8, the company reports that over 35,000 user-created maps have been uploaded, which have been downloaded ...
Steam Workshop's Skyrim mods top over 13.6 million downloads, Macho Man is pleased
Between Valentine's Day and now, 11.6 million Skyrim mods were downloaded from Steam, totaling 13.6 million. That's a lot of hanging out with space cores and dragons modeled after Randy Savage. The top mods represented on Steam's Workshop as of this writing aren't adding or subtracting major things ...
Skyrim's Dawnguard DLC coming this summer, more info at E3
Skyrim will receive its first DLC pack, entitled Dawnguard, this summer. Bethesda announced the name of the pack today, simply saying it was coming to Xbox 360, and that more info would be available come E3. The announcement comes over six months since the lands of the north were opened to ...
Skyrim Kinect patch out tomorrow; here's a list of voice commands
Tomorrow Bethesda hatches its scheme to coax your inner Dragonborn into speaking – well, Dragonborn with a second-language credit in English, anyway. The free Kinect update adds over 200 different voice recognition commands to English-speaking regions; there are a bunch of new things to ...
Report: Skyrim files reveal 'Snow Elf Prince,' crossbows as future content
A Bethesda forum member went exploring in the files from the latest Skyrim patch, and found several references to "Snow Elves," including a "Snow Elf Prince," who has dialogue (we assume it's all about Purple Snow). There are also files referring to crossbows, and a whole folder called "DLC01." The ...
Talking my way through Skyrim's free Kinect update
As much as I love Skyrim, there are some tedious parts of the game that could use a good streamlining. The monotony of having to go through menus to deal with inventory and skills is something, in particular, we could all do without. Enter: Kinect. The free update coming to Skyrim on Xbox 360 next ...
Skyrim's voice-enabled Dragon Shouts arrive 'the week of April 23'
When Skyrim's Kinect functionality arrives some time during "the week of April 23," it'll come in five different languages (English, Italian, Spanish, German, and French). Bethesda revealed said details to CNN in an exclusive interview, wherein the concept was referred to as "Project Adam" and ...
Skyrim adds Kinect support for 'more than 200' voice commands
Bethesda Softworks announced this morning that The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is getting Kinect support for "more than 200 voice commands" at some point this month via a title update. The developer promises the commands will apply to a variety of verbs across the world of Skyrim, from Dragon Shouts ...
Zenimax files 'FUS RO DAH' trademarks, USPTO cowers behind desk
There's little we like more than some good ol' fashioned wind shouting, Dragonborn-style, and it looks like Bethesda Softworks parent company Zenimax Media agrees with us. The company recently filed a sextet of trademark applications with the United States Patent and Trademark Office for the term ...
Skyrim 1.5 live on 360, hits PS3 'this afternoon'
Skyrim version 1.5 is now live on Xbox 360 and should be live on PS3 "later this afternoon," according to Bethesda VP of PR Pete Hines. This update contains, among other things, the addition of kill-cam cinematics for projectile weapons and spells, as well as new kill animations for melee weapons. ...
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