The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Graham Smith)

A screenshot of Skyrim VR, showing two hands grasping the side and cork of a potion bottle respectively.Half-Life: Alyx

‘s gravity gloves ruined a lot of other virtual reality games for me, because being able to point and flip objects into my hands solved a lot of awkward manoeuvring problems common in other games. It’s hard, after the elegance of Half-Life’s system, to go back to bending, sidestepping, and grasping at the air to pick up items – or worse, having your hands lack any and all collision with the world around you.

Enter the modders. Specifically, enter modder FlyingParticle, who has released HIGGS VR for Skyrim VR. It’s a mod that adds gravity glove-style interaction to Skyrim, and it looks like it works beautifully.

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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Alice O'Connor)

A photograph of two Ritual of Mara rings, with knotwork inspired by Skyrim's Amulet of Mara.An Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim screenshot showing an Amulet of Mara.

When you want to marry an NPC in Skyrim, you propose using an Amulet of Mara. In real life, you can now buy an official 10-karat gold ring based on the amulet’s design. For $1000, you can make your proposal hella Skyrim. I have previously heard of at least one person proposing with a custom ring based on the amulet, and one who proposed with an actual replica amulet.

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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Lauren Morton)

The magic of AI-powered text to speech continues as Skyrim modders get their hands on an application that generates speech from text based on voice samples from Bethesda games. It’s already inspired a trailer with AI-only voice acting and a new mod that gives Skyrim characters lines to compliment your dragonborn’s naked figure. Oh, the things modders will do.

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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Alice O'Connor)

Enderal screenshot of the countryside with aurora in the sky.

The final update arrived for the huge (and hugely impressive) free Skyrim total conversion mod Enderal yesterday. It’s a small patch but does bring a bit tease that the developers are now working on a new commercial project. They don’t give any hint as to what that might be, but considering the years they’ve spent with Enderal as well as Oblivion mod Nehrim, it’s hard not to assume/hope it might be some fantasy RPG dealio. Fingers crossed?

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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Lauren Morton)

Wake up and slap on your lore caps, Elder Scrolls fans. The Elder Scrolls VI may be quite a ways off yet, but that sure hasn’t ever stopped anyone from trying to divine details about where and when it might be set. The game’s afoot once again thanks to a map that Bethesda have posted with a message that seems like it could definitely possibly maybe be a hint that ES6 will head to Hammerfell. Maybe.

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Half-Life - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Imogen Beckhelling)

Get your speedrunning shoes on and prepare your glitches: Awesome Games Done Quick has arrived for its yearly speedrunning extravaganza. As with previous years, the charity event is raising money for the Prevent Cancer Foundation. It’s been live since yesterday evening and runs until this Sunday, and there are already some fab runs in the likes of Mirror’s Edge and Dragon Age: Origins to catch up on.

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Half-Life 2 - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Brendan Caldwell)

A strange, white-faced citizen from Pathologic backs away from the player character, their hands raised defensively.

Many of you are by now bathing in twinkling neon ravelights and swooning into the metal arms of Cyberpunk 2077‘s humourless unhunks, who stalk the streets of Night City like animatronic pizza restaurant mascots gone feral. That is fine. There are worse places to find oneself in the labyrinthine hell of video games. Places such as these. Here are 9 neighbourhoods you wouldn’t want to bring up your children in.

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Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Graham Smith)

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Last year brought RPG gems like Disco Elysium. Was there an RPG as good released in 2020? We’ve updated our list of the best RPGs of all time to reflect the best of the past year – and there’s still dozens of older classics, too.

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The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion® Game of the Year Edition - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Ed Thorn)

A screenshot from Skyblivion which shows a grand vista of the capital city. A glistening river runs around it, the sun sets in the distance, and a cliff juts out to the left of the screen.

Yes, Skyblivion is still going folks. A team of volunteers are still plugging away at remaking The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion in Skyrim as a mod. Will it ever come to a close? Well, in a new developer diary, we got an insight into how it’s looking and where it’s headed. In among all the details surrounding UI and clothes and objects, I found one thing really stood out to me. They’ve nearly completed the ‘first pass’ of the overworld, and they’re injecting some extra flavour into many of the original’s dull, empty spaces.

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Quake - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Imogen Beckhelling)

Update: Microsoft say they’ll “keep the commitment” to bring Bethesda’s Deathloop and Ghostwire: Tokyo to PS5 as timed exclusives. More below.>

Microsoft just announced they’ve bought ZeniMax Media, the parent company of Bethesda. The developers of games such as Skyrim, Fallout, Dishonored, Prey, Doom, Quake and all those classics are now technically Xbox Game Studios. Xbox boss Phil Spencer made a post welcoming the developers, in what he calls a “landmark step” for both Microsoft and Bethesda.

What a year.

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