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Bethesda ran a staff speedrun contest for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, the huge open-world RPG due next month, and it was completed in just over 2 hours. The record for the Skyrim speedrun - 2 hours 16 minutes 30 seconds - was in fact best by a QA staff member who shaved off 20 seconds in their sprint.

Top Ten things you need to know about Skyrim if you've never played an Elder Scrolls game before...

The courts have so far sided with Minecraft creator Markus 'Notch' Persson in the lawsuit Bethesda brought against studio Mojang over the Scrolls trademark. It means Mojang can "keep using the name" Scrolls for the time being, but Persson notes that Bethesda can "still appeal the ruling". He's a "very happy" indie dev.

Bethesda has announced the system requirements for the PC version of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, as revealed on Bethesda VP Pete Hines' twitter feed.

Did The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion keep you from really feeling like a demi-god? Skyrim's enemies won't always be equal in skill, reveals Todd Howard. Bethesda has opted to use Fallout 3's model instead, which has you face "harder things" as we level up, but "easier things stay around" for us to "just decimate".

This week sees the release of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and to help us drool over and short circuit our keyboards, Bethesda has released some behind-the-scenes videos. The first talks about the game in general but the second explores the immense effort the studio put into scoring the RPG's music and the vocal performances from its actors.

The number one is the loneliest number there is, unless you count Bethesda's release of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim which is due the 11th of the 11th month, the 11th year since the millennium. Just to be sure those ones aren't feeling all 'Billy no mates', Bethesda are going to release a day one patch bringing Skyrim to version 1.1. Change notes "when the time comes."

Bethesda advises Xbox 360 gamers that The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is a hog for caching to the hard drive, and that the "initial load" could be lengthy if not installed to the console. Caching happens over the "normal course of gameplay," but it can be cleared by playing other titles. Save games "could also potentially take longer" to load if the cache is cleared.

Gamers who have installed The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim onto their hard drive on their Xbox 360 hard drive have been suffering texture issues. This comes after Bethesda advised gamers to install the game to their hard drive.

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim has had quite an impact on PC, as Steam has revealed that on the first day, Skyrim had more than triple Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3's concurrent users.

Shock and disbelief is not something you should be experiencing when learning Activision's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 debuted top of the UK all format chart in its opening week. Bethesda's The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim was heir apparent coming 2nd, while Rockstar's PC offering of L.A. Noire was snooping 38th. Battlefield 3 fell back 3rd, Uncharted 3 6th.

VGChartz is reporting that more than 3.4 million copies of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim were sold at retail in the first two days of the game’s release. The sales figures represent a massive 600% increase in sales compared to the previous game; The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion sold 490K units in the first two days.

Players exploring the world of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim on PlayStation 3 have noticed a rather annoying bug that can render their game unplayable, and it's linked to saved games. When a PS3 Skyrim save file reaches 6MB the problems start, fans cry. At first it gets lag but deteriorates from there. Bethesda has already said a multi-platform patch is in the works.

Bethesda has announced in a press release that The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim sold half of the 7M units that were shipped at launch for PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, generating more than $450 million in global retail sales over the course of 48 hours.

Bethesda has announced that the second patch for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim will be coming after Thanksgiving, which falls on the 24th November.

Activision's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 has proved its chart topping prowess for a second week as it continues to dominate, keeping Assassin's Creed: Revelations from the crown. Bethesda's The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim was left shouting 3rd, and Saints Row: The Third was whacking bystanders with questionable implements 4th. What of HD Halo?

A small 18MB patch, version 1.1.12.0, has been released for the PC version of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. The patch has done two things which have upset gamers. The first is that it has broken the Large Address Aware (LAA) mode, which helped many players get around crashing and texture corruption issues. The other major change is that the game can no longer be launched outside of Steam.

Gamers and modders who used a no-clip to bypass the invisible barrier of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim have made a shocking, if pleasant, discovery: the entire Tamriel land mass lies beyond the borders of Skyrim.

A conservative Christian US citizen is petitioning President Barack Obama and the White House to destroy all copies of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, and to arrest and prosecute anyone caught playing it.

Those of you who enjoy the Elder Scrolls lore but don't have the time to hunt for every book in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, let alone getting the multiple volumes and reading them in order, can read them in a reader app which is now available. The app has every single book in the game at your fingertips.