THE ELDER SCROLLS V: SKYRIM? WORKSHOP LAUNCHES WITH OVER 2 MILLION MODS DOWNLOADED

WORLDWIDE DEMAND CONTINUES FOR THE SECOND HIGHEST GROSSING TITLE OF 2011

NEW HONORS FOR SKYRIM AS GAME IS NAMED ‘GAME OF THE YEAR’ AT 2012 INTERACTIVE ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS

February 14, 2012 (Rockville, MD) – ZeniMax? Media Inc. today announced that the Creation Kit?, a free tool that allows PC players to create their own custom content for Bethesda’s The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, has been enthusiastically received by PC gamers who have been uploading, downloading, and installing custom content through the Skyrim Workshop on Steam. Within a week of the release of the Creation Kit, gamers have downloaded more than 2 million mods via the Skyrim Workshop. More than 2,500 mods have been published by the gaming community, all of which are available for free.

Worldwide revenues generated by Skyrim have placed it among the industry's most successful titles, and demand for the title shows no signs of slowing. Measured by revenue, Skyrim was the second best selling game of 2011, and 2012 sales remain strong, with continuing digital downloads and large shipments of units to retail. Within the first month following its release in November, Bethesda Softworks? reported it had shipped over 10 million units of Skyrim across all platforms, representing approximately $650 million in retail sales, and those results have since increased substantially.

Data from Steam, the digital download service, reveal that the average number of hours that a gamer plays Skyrim exceeds 75 hours, underscoring fan devotion to the game. The PC version of Skyrim in North America outsold all other PC games by a factor of over three to one in the month of its release, and Skyrim is the fastest selling title in Steam's history.

Console versions of Skyrim reveal equally strong fan demand. The Xbox 360 version of Skyrim outsold all Xbox 360 exclusive titles in 2011 in North America, and the PS3 version of Skyrim outsold all PS3 exclusive titles on that platform. These strong commercial results match the high scores and widespread praise of critics that the game has received.

The critically-acclaimed title was most recently honored with the ‘Game of the Year’ award at the 15 th Annual 2012 Interactive Achievement Awards (IAA) held at the 2012 D.I.C.E. Summit. Skyrim also received top honors in the ‘Outstanding Achievement in Gameplay Engineering’, ‘Outstanding Achievement in Game Direction’, ‘Role-Playing Game of the Year’, and ‘Outstanding Achievement in Story’ categories. The IAA’s focus is on peer-based voting and its awards are considered to be among the highest honors of recognition in the interactive entertainment industry.

Skyrim had already garnered dozens of ‘Game of the Year’ awards from major outlets worldwide, including winning the top honor of ‘Game of the Year’ at the 2011 Video Game Awards which are voted on by a panel of editors from the industry’s most respected magazines and websites. To date, Skyrim has received over 200 perfect review scores worldwide, earning the highest praise from some of the industry’s most influential critics including: Wall Street Journal, USA Today, G4TV, The New York Times, GameSpy, Wired, Eurogamer, Destructoid, GamePro, Official Xbox Magazine, Joystiq, The Guardian, Famitsu and GamesRadar. G4TV describes Skyrim as “one of the greatest games ever” and Eurogamer was one of many outlets to call it a “masterpiece.”

And...What now?

Why have you posted this?

What's with all the CAPS? Get a mod to change that for you. I can't/won't read past all the CAPS.

To spread the positive news about our favorite game!

This guy looks like a mouthpiece for steam and apparently likes drm on his games.

I don't believe the Faithful needed reminding or defense of Bethesda, but what the heck- it's your right to shout Hooray or anything else about Skyrim.

So? The Nexus had 4 million downloads in the same period.

http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/news/article.php?id=64

That is also good. However I posted it not solely because of the moderate success of the Steam workshop. I posted it because of the all around good news regarding Skyrim from ongoing strong pc & console sales to success of the CK, awards, etc.

Why are people always so negative? Thanks for the post jpnole; I wish everyone here was as enthusiastic about this game as you are.

/golfclap

My game is still broke.

Wonderful.

Maybe they can take a moment out of their time celebrating, put the champagne glasses down and figure out why my game keeps freezing up after 1.4.

Thats amazing congratz bethesda!

I have read this from others as well... which platform are you on? I'm on 360 and i haven't downloaded the 1.4 yet.

lol nexus has been so busy I keep getting server overload messages the last 2 days. I think the workshop is giving steam more business lol

Bethesda did a great job of using old tech, old editor, old graphics, animation, engine and making loads of money out of a series that was always going to be popular no matter what. They must have spend very little money on the game compared to how big they are. The only reason why The Witcher 2 didn't pick up GOTY(won awards in Europe) is because reviewers are biased to Bethesda, Elder Scrolls and it's more mass market than ever.

Bethesda managed to make the most shallow Elder Scrolls game ever and it still beat superior games like The Witcher 2 purely by it's name and status.

Congrats to Bethesda i say. Looking forward to the next Elder Scrolls already. (the very long wait begins)

This is SO TRUE
can't ever be positive about something, so sad