- After spending $15k on their Skyrim VR setup, one streamer has added a haptic suit just to feel pain - 28 April 2024
A Skyrim VR streamer who spent $15,000 on a VR setup just for the Bethesda game has added a new element into the mix: actual pain. You ever feel like video games don't feel real enough to you? Sure, you can put on a headset and experience games in first-person thanks to VR tech, but you can't feel anything exactly. There's always putting on a haptic feedback suit, but even then, something's missing… The true way to experience a game is to feel the very pain your character is feeling, something that Skyrim VR and Fallout VR streamer Gingas has decided to put themselves through for the sake of entertainment (thanks, GamesRadar ). GingasVR has already done a bit of work to make Skyrim VR a bit more of an immersive experience, which she put around $15,000 into , alongside some mods for things like physics and more accurate body movements via three Vive trackers. She also uses a fan to simul…
- Elden Ring's famous mind control streamer is now casting spells in Skyrim VR using similar tech - 30 November 2023
The Twitch streamer who conquered Elden Ring using their brain earlier this year is now using similar tech to take one a modded mage playthrough of Skyrim VR. For those who haven’t had the pleasure of stumbling across a clip from one of Perrikaryal ’s streams before, they’ve become known for taking on a whole host of games using a brain imaging device called an EEG. This handy gadget allows them to control the action using the electrical activity in their brain, which the EEG’s sensors pick up and allow to be used in a similar manner to the traditional controller inputs. As alluded to, they’ve already beaten Elden Ring in this fashion, but the latest challenge they’ve decided to take on is arguably even more difficult and definitely more soul destroying. They’re taking on a modded mage playthrough of Skyrim while using VR in addition to the brain tech. Read more
- You can now experience Skyrim on yet another platform - 4 July 2023
Skyrim is often joked about by many due to Bethesda's re-releases of the RPG game on various platforms throughout the years. It is undoubtedly one of The Elder Scrolls series' best entries, considering everything from its expansive world to its immersive questlines. You can sink thousands of hours into Skyrim , and you can do so on any platform imaginable. Sure, you have it on Amazon's Alexa device and your PC, but really, everything can run Skyrim. One Las Vegas hotel is here to prove just that. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Best Skyrim mods 2023 Skyrim console commands and cheats Skyrim finally has the feature every modern game needs
- Modder wires ChatGPT into Skyrim VR so NPCs can roleplay and remember past conversations - 28 April 2023
Spend enough time in any RPG and you'll eventually run out of things to talk about with its characters. But what if they had a never-ending supply of dynamically generated anecdotes? What if you could ask them questions that weren't listed on a menu in front of you? What if they could even remember the experiences they've had with you in the game, and could talk about them at length? Those are the questions modder Art From The Machine is trying to answer in Skyrim VR... Read more.
- Skyrim's fishing minigame is a reel missed opportunity - 25 November 2021
I have, once again, taken the bait. Along with the launch of Skyrim Anniversary Edition, Skyrim Special Edition received an update recently to celebrate the game's 10th birthday, and it introduced something rather important: Skyrim's first official fishing minigame. It's a Creation Club add-on complete with fishing mechanics, quests and special rewards. And so, with the promise of fantastical fish in mind, last weekend I found myself trundling down a mountain in the back of a familiar cart. The reason I was so excited for this addition - beyond the mere appeal of something new being added to Skyrim - is that I'm an amateur angler myself. Ever since I was a tiddler I've been float fishing for pollock and bass: I've tried my hand at coarse fishing, spinning for trout in Scottish lochs, and even fly fishing (with varying degrees of success). Over the past year I had great success as a mack…
- Modder brings actual brain-powered magic to Skyrim VR - 16 November 2021
A modder has created a "real virtual magic" mod for Skyrim VR. The mod uses a brain computer interface that measures your concentration. The more you focus, the higher your magicka bar becomes. Fill it up and you'll do double damage; let it drop and you'll do less. Read more
- During development, Skyrim's iconic cart ride kept getting catapulted into space by a bee - 18 August 2021
Making games, we are often reminded, is hard, with development frequently being derailed by the most preposterously unpredictable things. Behold, for instance, the newly revealed story of Skyrim's iconic cart ride, and how it was, for a time before release, routinely thwarted by a particularly stubborn bee. The full tale was recently recounted on Twitter by 14-year Bethesda veteran - and now solo indie developer - Nate Purkeypile , who served as senior world and lighting artist during the creation of Skyrim. "That intro is famous now," Purkeypile wrote, "but back then, it was just that one thing that we had to keep working and working on forever." According to Purkeypile, the cart ride was particularly prone to mishaps during development because its bumps and bounces toward Helgen were physically simulated ("Why you ask?," he adds, "Good question.") - meaning environmental objects carel…
- This mod puts Half-Life: Alyx's gravity gloves into Skyrim VR - 23 January 2021
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. (more…)
- This mod puts Half-Life: Alyx's gravity gloves into Skyrim VR - 23 January 2021
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. (more…)
- This mod puts Half-Life: Alyx's gravity gloves into Skyrim VR - 23 January 2021
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. Read more
- This $1000 ring lets you propose the Skyrim way - 21 January 2021
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. (more…)
- This $1000 ring lets you propose the Skyrim way - 21 January 2021
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. (more…)
- This $1000 ring lets you propose the Skyrim way - 21 January 2021
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. Read more
- Skyrim looks like a new game with 300 mods installed - 24 August 2020
Nowadays, I’m a Skyrim watcher and not a Skyrim doer. I used to be a doer, but that involved more than just installing the game. I’d start modding, and I wouldn’t stop. Couldn’t stop. I’d spend more time looking for lore appropriate coin distribution than shouting at dragons. Eventually, something would break, and I’d uninstall it, promising that I wouldn’t fall into that hole again. It’s been a long struggle, but when I stumbled upon YouTube compilations of heavily-modded Elder Scrolls, I finally broke the curse. Some brave souls do the hard work for me, turning the nine-year-old RPG (or four-year-old remaster, or two-year-old VR remake) into PC melting 4K thirst traps. I don’t have time for that. Nor the PC. (more…)
- The Skyrim Grandma will be a Skyrim follower mod before she's an Elder Scrolls 6 NPC - 4 January 2020
Shirley Curry, better known as the Skyrim Grandma, is set to appear in The Elder Scrolls 6 as an NPC. But before then she'll be available to play in Skyrim via a mod. Shirley will be available as a Skyrim follower as part of Shirley - A Skyrim follower mod, which received a teaser trailer this week and is due out on Nexus early 2020, according to a reddit post from one of its creators. So, what can you expect from Shirley in-game? Unique commentary on locations and situations and unique interactions with the player. Initial updates will expand the commentary. Shirley's combat style in the game reflects her combat style during her let's plays: a classic barbarian using two-handed weapons, wearing light armour plus archery for ranged attacks. Read more
- Games of the Decade: The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim is anything but overrated - 26 November 2019
To mark the end of the 2010s, we're celebrating 30 games that defined the last 10 years. You can find all the articles as they're published in the Games of the Decade archive , and read about our thinking about it in an editor's blog . It's hard to think of a game that's been subject to just as much revisionism as Skyrim. Maybe that's to be expected, given its dizzying success. The game is everywhere and its cultural reach is almost insurmountable - so much so that the jokes about climbing mountains, taking arrows and porting to toasters have all been unfashionably irksome for much longer than they were ever funny in the first place. And with all that success comes the inevitable and insufferable "not that good actually" crowd. But they are wrong! Skyrim is good, actually. Exactly as good as everyone says it is. And it is good for a lot of reasons but none of them as truly special, I th…
- New Skywind gameplay shows just how impressive the Morrowind rebuilt in Skyrim mod is shaping up to be - 24 August 2019
The people behind Skywind have released a gameplay demo of the mod - and it's pretty impressive. The gameplay video, below, shows off how the modders have recreated Morrowind in the Skyrim engine. We see the player pick up a bounty in town, head off out into the wild and into a dungeon to kill the target before returning for a reward. This is classic The Elder Scrolls stuff and on the face of it not particularly groundbreaking, but there's a level of polish here we don't often see from mods. The music, voice acting and town AI is all present and correct, and we even get to see some spear combat. Read more
- Five of the Best: Potions - 9 August 2019
Five of the Best is going to be a series! Every Friday lunchtime, UK time, we're going to celebrate a different incidental detail from the world of games. The kind of thing we usually just WASD past, oblivious. But also the kind of thing which adds unforgettable flavour if done right. Potions! We've been drinking them for years. In games I mean! I hope you haven't been knocking them back in real-life, they're bad for you. Imagine drinking something which alters your behaviour - how ridiculous! But potions we've been drinking for years. Red ones, blue ones... They're so common they've become a universal language. We don't even really see them any more. We just slosh them back when needed. Gulp! But every so often, we do see them. Once in a while, a memorable potion pops up. Maybe it was a potion which typified a game for you - the port-key to remembering an adventure. A tonic from BioSho…
- Skyrim Together mod makers insist they won't give up after chief creator declares: "we don't owe the community anything" - 27 April 2019
The controversial Skyrim Together mod is once again under scrutiny after its chief creator declared: "we don't owe the community anything." Lead programmer Max Griot took to the Skyrim Together subreddit to respond to a thread titled "is something going to happen?" that was posted after months of radio silence on the project. Skyrim Together aims to add online multiplayer to Bethesda's hugely popular open-world fantasy RPG, and pulls in an impressive $18,284 a month on Patreon. Read more
- The best VR games of 2018 - 23 December 2018
This year has been a relatively quiet one for VR, but headset owners have still been treated to their fair share of great games. The likes of Beat Saber, In Death and Moss have become must-plays for anyone with an Oculus Rift or HTC Vive, while we've also seen plenty of excellent VR ports of existing games, such as Skyrim VR. If you missed out on any of them, or if you haven't been keeping track of all the new releases, then don't worry—we've brought them all together in this article. Here are the best 2018 VR games. For more great games, check out our longer list of the overall best VR games , which stretches back to 2016. Note that some of the games here are in Early Access. We've only included them if we think they're polished enough to be considered one of the best things that you could've played this year. Beat Saber Developer: Beat Games |…
