Bethesda and Todd Howard have come up with a new way to sell you Skyrim all over again with the recently announced Skyrim Anniversary Edition which is set to release on November 11 later this year. Announced during QuakeCon 2021 of all places, Skyrim Anniversary Edition will include Skyrim Special Edition which includes all previously released DLC, as well as more than 500 Creation Club elements and a brand new fishing mechanic.
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For those that haven't heard of Bethesda's Creation Club service, it's essentially a shop full of very small pieces of downloadable content that you can pay for. The service mainly contains fancy cosmetics and weapon skins, but can sometimes also contain some pretty nifty gameplay additions. The Anniversay Edition of Skyrim looks to add over 500 of these small items.
It also seems like those who already own Skyrim Special Edition will be able to upgrade to the Anniversary Edition for free, and those playing on PS5 and Xbox Series X will also receive a free next-gen console upgrade. The price of this fancy new edition – for the three of you out there who don't own Skyrim yet – has not been announced, but Skyrim Anniversary Edition will be coming to PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X.
In other Skyrim-related news, several developers have been sharing their stories regarding Skyrim's development, one of which revealed that Skyrim's now iconic intro scene took "forever to make" due to a bee that kept sending the cart you're riding into orbit.
Another developer – inspired by the bee story – has explained the "Treasure Fox" myth that has been shared by the Skyrim community since release. It's believed that if a player follows a fox in Skyrim, they will eventually be led to treasure, but developer Joel Burgess has explained that's not quite the case. According to Burgess, the fox's AI is simply looking for a large amount of "navmesh triangles", which camps and forts have a large amount of.
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