Posts Tagged 'Skyrim'

The Campfire presents: The Longest Climb

  The Campfire is a new column where we regale you with tales of our video game adventures. In ‘The Longest Climb,’ the Khajiit adventurer M’Rohk attempts to climb to the top of Skyrim’s tallest mountain, and finds himself wishing

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The Campfire presents: The Longest Climb

  The Campfire is a new column where we regale you with tales of our video game adventures. In ‘The Longest Climb,’ the Khajiit adventurer M’Rohk attempts to climb to the top of Skyrim’s tallest mountain, and finds himself wishing

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Getting lost in Proteus: An interview with Ed Key

One of the remarkable things a game can offer is the ability to get lost in a world–to go on journeys, to explore. Few games can truly capture the idyllic, child-like magic of a good saunter–most of the time, traveling

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Getting lost in Proteus: An interview with Ed Key

One of the remarkable things a game can offer is the ability to get lost in a world–to go on journeys, to explore. Few games can truly capture the idyllic, child-like magic of a good saunter–most of the time, traveling

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Mystery and mechanics in Dark Souls and Skyrim

Over the past few days I’ve been reading this summary of the plots, characters, and places of Demon’s Souls. I’m amazed at one thing in particular: how everything in the world has a cause. How everything has a story behind

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Mystery and mechanics in Dark Souls and Skyrim

Over the past few days I’ve been reading this summary of the plots, characters, and places of Demon’s Souls. I’m amazed at one thing in particular: how everything in the world has a cause. How everything has a story behind

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The open roads of Skyrim

As a gamer I am what we call a chronic restarter. I’ve gotten better about it since I’ve started writing about games (as I have to beat things in a timely fashion), but as a kid I would restart Super

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The open roads of Skyrim

As a gamer I am what we call a chronic restarter. I’ve gotten better about it since I’ve started writing about games (as I have to beat things in a timely fashion), but as a kid I would restart Super

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Skyrim Glitch Adds Welfare

Wake up, wake up, wake up it’s the 1st of the month! To get up, get up, get up, so cash your checks and get up!                                                                     –Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, “1st of tha Month.” Need further proof that Bethesda’s new digital

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Skyrim Glitch Adds Welfare

Wake up, wake up, wake up it’s the 1st of the month! To get up, get up, get up, so cash your checks and get up!                                                                     –Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, “1st of tha Month.” Need further proof that Bethesda’s new digital

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Hunting for witches: Dragon Age and Skyrim

I’ve made no secret my love of systems in role playing games, a love birthed from Final Fantasies in my youth and Dungeons and Dragons in my college years. I still play Dungeons and Dragons, and when we play we

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Hunting for witches: Dragon Age and Skyrim

I’ve made no secret my love of systems in role playing games, a love birthed from Final Fantasies in my youth and Dungeons and Dragons in my college years. I still play Dungeons and Dragons, and when we play we

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#OccupySkyrim

  WHO WE ARE From mead hall to saw mill, from castle to cavern, we are The Shit. …”Chosen One,” “Listener,” “dragonborn”—I tell ya I can’t stroll into a room these days without some jackass trumpeting my Great Arrival. I

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#OccupySkyrim

  WHO WE ARE From mead hall to saw mill, from castle to cavern, we are The Shit. …”Chosen One,” “Listener,” “dragonborn”—I tell ya I can’t stroll into a room these days without some jackass trumpeting my Great Arrival. I

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Minecraft easter egg discovered in Skyrim

While the relationship between Bethesda and Mojang has been a tad strained lately thanks to a silly legal battle, it seems the good will between the developers still holds true with this great discovery in Skyrim. Alledgedly found in the

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Minecraft easter egg discovered in Skyrim

While the relationship between Bethesda and Mojang has been a tad strained lately thanks to a silly legal battle, it seems the good will between the developers still holds true with this great discovery in Skyrim. Alledgedly found in the

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Skyrim 360 install makes you choose graphics or fast load times

No launch these days isn’t without a few hiccups. Thankfully Skyrim is one of those rare “singleplayer” games so none of the launch issues had to do with an online pass. This minor issue with the 360 version of Skyrim

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Skyrim 360 install makes you choose graphics or fast load times

No launch these days isn’t without a few hiccups. Thankfully Skyrim is one of those rare “singleplayer” games so none of the launch issues had to do with an online pass. This minor issue with the 360 version of Skyrim

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The Throat of Gaming: Skyrim

I’ll say this: Skyrim is a counterfeiter’s masterpiece. …Two minutes in I’m hunting a creature through the wintered foliage—an elk or something, I don’t know. Whatever it is it’s too stupid to know I’m out to kill it; that the

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The Throat of Gaming: Skyrim

I’ll say this: Skyrim is a counterfeiter’s masterpiece. …Two minutes in I’m hunting a creature through the wintered foliage—an elk or something, I don’t know. Whatever it is it’s too stupid to know I’m out to kill it; that the

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