UPDATE! Create Your Own High-Resolution Monsters, Maladies, And More In Skyrim Today!

UPDATE: The Skyrim Creation Kit is now available! The special surprise? The Skyrim High-Resolution Texture Pack for all PC users! Even if you don’t want to create mods, you can still enjoy better graphics in your game. Both the Creation Kit and Texture Pack are available for free through Steam right now! Oh, and Skyrim is currently on sale for $39.95!

Holy Thu’um, Batman!

Access the Skyrim Workshop and find all user-created mods.

TIP: Make sure your system requirements meet or exceed Skyrim’s recommended specs before attempting to install (including Windows Vista or 7, 4GB+ of RAM, and a DirectX 9.0c-compatible NVIDIA or AMD ATI video card with at least 1 GB of RAM and updated drivers).

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In my 53 in-game days of playing Skyrim so far, I have:

• cavorted with cannibals.
• saved an orphan ghost.
• murdered a magic tree.
• attended Skyrim’s version of Hogwarts where on a class field trip, I accidentally discovered a huge glowing ancient orb of incredible power.
• beat an elderly priest to death for a Vincent Price-voiced demon, watched as Vincent Price-demon raised him from the dead, beat him even further until he submitted his will to Vincent Price-demon, and then killed him again anyway.
• resisted the delicious promises of the Skull of Corruption.
• collected 34,208 gold coins.
• defeated three evil dead brothers to claim their fragments of an ancient amulet, reforged the amulet in Mount Doom, and wore it.
• contracted five diseases.
• stood in the middle of a circle of old men who all shouted at me and shouted back at them, and they were impressed.
• stolen 522 different things.
• had a conversation with an evil black dragon named Alduin, the World-Eater.
• killed 188 people, 21 bears, 32 sabre cats, 65 wolves, 11 dragons, 166 zombies, 7 demons, and 2 bunnies.

But all of those things, impressive as they may be, are just the tip of the tip of the iceberg. The whole tip of the iceberg is the insane amount of content I still haven’t experienced that ships with the game. The actual iceberg itself, the best part of the Skyrim experience, is all the user-generated content about to start flowing down the pipeline on Tuesday.

That’s when the Skyrim Creation Kit hits Steam and the gaming community around the world (PC only for now, but possibly PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in the near future) can create, upload, download, install, modify, and tinker with every single element in Bethesda’s toolbox for free. Thanks to the Steam system, it will also be seamless like never before with automatic content integration and updates every time a user boots up their game (check out the video for more detail).

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And if all that wasn’t enough, Bethesda’s VP of marketing Pete Hines tweeted that there is a “special surprise” in store for fans. Let’s hope it’s more cool dragons and not an evil disease.

Speaking of diseases, check out the video below by Blue Goggles Films of someone having to go through an intervention for his Skyrim addiction. How long until you have to have your own intervention?

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