Howard interviews and OXM articles unleashed this week – SkyrimWorld summarises some of the key facts learned.

We’ve all had a few days now to feast over the awesome new in-game trailer that Bethesda have posted up on their official game website. Our screenshots gallery will guide you on a blow-by-blow account of some of what there was to see there.

After a slow news week on Skyrim (we hope our lore sections proposing possible origins of the Falmer and involvement of the Skaal helped tide you by!), we’ve finally got the goods for you! The French Official Playstation Magazine, only yesterday, revealed some further news on what to expect in Skyrim. Check out Skyrim Worlds rundown of what’s news: Places to visit Don’t pay too much attention to those maps of Skyrim we’ve seen to [...]

Anyone who has spent way too much time reading books in Morrowind might have stumbled across a tome entitled Children of the Sky in Vivecs Library. A read of this tome would provide you the following text: Nords consider themselves to be the children of the sky. They call Skyrim the Throat of the World, because it is where the sky exhaled on the land and formed them. They see themselves as eternal outsiders and [...]

Check out our news round-up of recent goings-on in the run up to the Skyrim launch.

Fans of Oblivion will recall immersion into an expansive world, of criss-crossing plotlines, rolling scenery and denizens aplenty to interact with…. only to be ripped back out of it every time you had to interact with the menu system. In fairness, a game as immersive and complex as the Elder Scrolls series require some serious user interaction and therefore complex menus…. but Bethesda are striving for perfection in Skyrim, and rather than reuse more of [...]

Details are now emerging about Skyrims overhauled combat system. The team at Bethesda have taken a close look at the combat practices that emerged when playing Oblivion, capitalised on the strengths and plugged any weaknesses, as well as sourcing inspiration from other games to produce what promises to be the most strategic and realistic combat system yet seen in the Elder Scrolls series. Dual-wielding is one of the new features introduced, fans of new-breed FPS [...]