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Bethesda, the studio behind well known games like Skyrim, Doom and the upcoming Dishonored 2 have gone on record and said that they will no longer be providing advanced review copies of their games to media outlets. They essentially said this:  "we want everyone, including those in the media, to experience our games at the same time." You can read what they had to say in it's entirety here . Honestly I see no problem with this. Often times reviews can make or break a game as some gamers hang on the words of those reviewing it. While there are those who don't. I know I guilty on both fronts and in the end it falls to your preference. --- Courtesy of Games News Network

I'm sure many of you have played games like The Witcher 3, Grand Theft Auto V, Fallout 4, Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and the list goes on. The question is, have you played these massive open world games at the same time. I don't mean that in a literal sense but more in terms of jumping between these worlds in an aim to get to the end game, where the credits finally roll. I haven't and don't think I'd put myself in that kind of hell. Why is it hell? Let's get into that. Open World games these days are MASSIVE, usually taking up an entire real-world city or small country. Take The Witcher 3 for example. The game world is so expansive it takes you some time to travel from one end of the map to the other and that's one reason these games can be hell; their sheer size. Moreso if they don't have any type of fast travel system, traveling can be a task in itself. Can you image trying to play Skyrim without any sort of Fast Travel. It would take a player ages t...

This morning Bethesda announced the next piece of DLC making it's way to Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. This DLC, coming December 4th to the Xbox 360, is entitled Dragonborn and judging by the trailer the story revolves around the very first Dragonborn. So you can expect new locations, enemies and much more with this DLC. Stay tuned for more information as it become available.

Bethesda has reported that beta keys for the Skyrim Dawnguard expansion has started to trickle out to people who applied. Since there was so many who applied they have currently sent out keys to .005%, meaning there are a lot of people that will have to wait. Currently the keys are for Xbox 360 users who will be receiving an email with a redemption code.

Yesterday we talked about maybe hearing news on the Skyrim DLC next week; today players of the Skyrim PC game have discovered a few more DLC clues. After finding their way into the Skyrim update 1.5.26, they discovered a folder called "DLC01"--subtle I know. What they found within seems to be assets for Snow Elf characters and crossbows, additionally there appeared to be files pointing to new vampire animations. For all we know this could just be for the PC version of the game but for now it best now to look too much into this until we get some kind of confirmation. [via OXM ]

There has be news coming out of different outlets as to the first batch of Skyrim DLC. We've seen the Kinect integration trailer so we know that's coming and we've also seen images with the name Dawnguard attached to them. Other than that Bestheda has be tight-lipped on what we can expect for Skyrim DLC. Well Bethesda's Pete Hines stated, via Twitter, that he was trying to get more information on the Skyrim DLC and possibly releasing it next week. With that said all we can do it wait and hope to hear something about the Skyrim DLC. [via OXM ]

This morning a trailer was released showing off what Skyrim would be like with Kinect integration. My initial thoughts were that it couldn't be real and it was too good to be true. Turns out-it REAL and its coming. The video below goes into detail on what's possible with Skyrim and Kinect.

Skyrim is undoubtedly a great game. However, what happen when the developers take a week to do whatever they want with the game. Well the result is a list of impressive enhancements and tweaks that would make Skyrim the only game you play--EVER. Dragon mounts, new arrows, new spells and a new seasonal foliage system are just a few of what the developers came up with. Its not a sure thing that any of these changes will make it into the game but whatever gets put into the game it will be most welcomed and enjoyed. [via OXM ]

About a week ago Bethesda released a video detailing the Skyrim Creation Kit and some of its features. The way it's integrated with Steam to make uploading and finding created content that much easier, the ability to create detailed scenarios as the developers do and more. The video didn't give an estimated date for the release but thanks to Pete Hines and Destructoid we now know that the Skyrim Creation Kit will be dropping tomorrow. All players who want to create a unique experience in Skyrim based on their own story will soon be able to do so adding hours onto your time within Skyrim.