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Article: Super Skyrim Bros: Mario Mod for Skyrim

If the Minecraft-like Retro mod wasn't enough for you -- and if that Gangnam Style Skyrim animated dance didn't fill an empty void in your heart -- we've now spotted a "Super Skyrim Bros" mod that turns Bethesda's Skyrim into... well, Super Mario Brothers.

Article: Clearing the Cobwebs: Company of Heroes Maps & Mods

Modding communities have the astounding power to extend the life of a game past the developer's capabilities (or desires, for that matter), and when modders want a game to stay alive, they'll make it so. Company of Heroes is one of those games. Its powerful mapping interface makes map-making effortless, and now that the game's been...

Article: Complete List of All Skyrim Quests

While browsing Skyrim Nexus for more awesome mods -- a time-consuming habit of mine, to be sure; I swear, it's not an addiction -- I saw the below "Ultimate Skyrim Quests Overview and Checklist" pop-up. It's incredible.

Article: Stay Classy: Shout-Farting in Skyrim

There's nothing that speaks to the class of the modding community like Twiggy's "Animated Shout Farting" mod for Skyrim. Ah, yes -- with hundreds of hours of gameplay behind us, it's now time to put those shouts to use. The dragonborn in the below video has, evidently, consumed nearly every cheese roll in the game. He's a bit flatulent, you see. Jump down to take a look at the mod's high-octane functionality.

Article: GUI ENB Customizer for Skyrim

Our Skyrim hardcore overhaul we published earlier left -- deep down -- a bit of an empty spot: We wanted more lighting and graphics. The ENB series of environmental and atmospheric lighting effects has always been one of the most powerful tools (as exhibited in GTA4) in modding, but some of its interpretations are over-exposed or otherwise a bit "off."

Article: Skyrim Hardcore Survival & Realism Mod Overhaul

There's something to be said about being able to survive the howling winds of Windhelm with nothing but a loin cloth and cold iron sword; Dovahkiin is not only Dragonborn, he is -- for playability purposes, of course -- resistant to all types of weather and hunger. After our previous graphics and content overhaul (which will be updated soon, no doubt), we thought it...

Article: New nVidia Drivers "Boost Skyrim Performance by 20%"

Skyrim hasn't been known to be the most optimized game for PC gamers, but it is quite flexible in its requirements; after installing our graphics mod overhaul, though, even those of us with powerful PCs could use an extra FPS and performance kick.

Article: Skyrim: How to Troubleshoot Conflicting Mods

Going crazy with mod installations, as we did in our previous Skyrim Overhaul kit, can lead to constant CTDs, freezing, black screens, glitches, and crashing; despite how fun running through every possible solution in a crash fix guide is, it's not fun at all to potentially wipe your Skyrim installation clean and...

Article: Complete Skyrim Graphics & Content Overhaul

No matter how much hype surrounds a game at initial launch and no matter who the maker is, even great games inevitably become stale and tiresome. Luckily, series that are backed by huge modding communities -- like the Elder Scrolls games or the Baldur's Gate community -- possess the astounding ability to imbue a fading game with invigorating content, potentially...

Article: Skyrim Save Game Manager Mod

Managing games in Skyrim can be unnecessarily complex when juggling multiple characters or if others use your computer, and while save game managers are no new concept, we thought we'd provide a brief guide on...

Article: Kill Everyone in Skyrim - No Essential NPCs

If you haven't done it yet, you've thought about doing it: making all NPCs killable in Skyrim, as was possible in Morrowind ("A thread of the prophecy, blah blah blah"), is now easily done through the installation of this simple mod.

Article: Play Skyrim in Retro Graphics Mode

Even with our struggle to make Skyrim evermore graphically pleasing, nostalgia still gets the best of us and hearkens back to a simpler time of blocky, spiky, pixelated graphics. If you've wanted to play Minecraft in Skyrim (or Skyrim in Minecraft, for that matter), Astal's "Skyrim Retro Project" arcade-style graphics mod certainly brews a bizarre amalgamation of highly...

Article: Re-Spec Your Skyrim Character, Change Race, Appearance

For those of you contemplating your character's existence in Skyrim, this small utility lets you change your race, skills, health, magicka, stamina, gold, appearance, and much more in TES V. This nifty program was added to Skyrim Nexus just recently. Here's the break-down.

Article: Best Skyrim Graphics Mods: Before and After

Update: For a total Skyrim graphics, mechanics, and content overhaul, view our newest guide! After posting our recent article about the best graphics mods out for Skyrim, we had to put together the best possible comparison to truly showcase the wondrous power of the modding community; this...

Article: Skyrim Fixes: Black Screen, Error 51, Loading Crashes, Mouse Lag, and more

It's fair to say that all of us, deep down inside, knew that TES:V would be no different from its four predecessors: buggy, crash-happy, and aggravating. While the game might make up for the crashes in its freedom factor for some, the infamous "Skyrim failed to start (error 51)" bugs, crashes when Skyrim loads or zones, black screens on alt-tab, and generally Skyrim crashing to desktop nearly stopped me from playing...

Article: The Best Skyrim Graphics Overhaul Mods

Update: For a total Skyrim graphics, mechanics, and content overhaul, view our newest guide! Skyrim's only been out for a few weeks, but as soon as the game hit the shelves, enhancements propagated on TES websites worldwide. We've taken the time to sift through nearly every mod on Skyrim Nexus just so...

Article: Dragon Age Modders Remake Baldur's Gate II, Part 2

Setting out to remake one of the world's most venerated RPGs is a daunting task, but despite the number of failed attempts over the years, the Baldur's Gate 2 Redux mod for Dragon Age: Origins hit the ground running. The BGR team has been steadily releasing their remake of Baldur's Gate II through a system of modules --...

Article: Baldur's Gate 2 Redux for Dragon Age Released

Reflecting on a time of simple graphics and complex, intertwined stories has become a favored chore of the experienced gamer. It might just be the curmudgeon in all of us, but when truly given some thought, everyone reading this article possesses the ability to conjure up nostalgic memories of games that have come and gone. It was a...