In a blog post today, Bethesda’s Skyrim team indi­cates that they’re putting Skyrim to bed…

“For the last year and a half we’ve been work­ing on new con­tent for Skyrim; from the game updates, Cre­ation Kit, Steam Work­shop, Kinect sup­port, to DLCs. Parts of our team have also been in pre-production on our next major project, and that game is at the point where it requires the studio’s full atten­tion to make it our biggest and best work yet.

“Even though we’re mov­ing on, we’ll still have minor updates to Skyrim as needed. We’ve invested so much of our­selves into Skyrim and will never truly say good­bye to it.”

As rumor has it, PS3 users will finally get to expe­ri­ence Skyrim DLC Dawn­guard, Hearth­fire and Drag­onborn in Feb­ru­ary of 2013. Here’s hop­ing that actu­ally hap­pens. We’ll believe it when we see it.

Game Informer is report­ing that The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim devel­oper Bethesda and Zen­i­max Online Stu­dios have announced that they will release a mas­sively mul­ti­player online ver­sion of The Elder Scrolls next year for PC and Mac.

Set a mil­len­nium before the events of Skyrim, The Elder Scrolls Online will take place across all of Tam­riel dur­ing a time when daedric prince Molag Bal is wreak­ing havoc on the realm. The game will fea­ture three player fac­tions and PvP com­bat. Pre­sum­ably you’ll be able to travel across the entire world of The Elder Scrolls, as Game Informer men­tions Elsweyr, Skyrim, and Cyrodiil as loca­tions in the MMORPG.

Ready for some DLC for Skyrim? Well, it’s on its way.

The first of pre­sum­ably sev­eral pieces of down­load­able con­tend is enti­tled Dawn­guard, and Bethesda has announced that it will be out this sum­mer for the Xbox 360.

If you’re a PC or PS3 player, don’t despair. If Bethesda’s pre­vi­ous ven­tures into DLC ter­ri­tory are any indi­ca­tion, Dawn­guard will make it’s way to your sys­tem of choice even­tu­ally. Prob­a­bly within a few weeks of the Xbox release.

From day one, Skyrim was quite pos­si­bly the biggest game ever released. From the mas­sive scope of the world to the num­ber of char­ac­ters and quests held within, it has always been extremely easy to lose track of time while explor­ing the icy landscape.

But when it was announced that the mod­ding com­mu­nity — which Bethesda has always embraced — would be able to release mods via Valve’s Steam Work­shop hit, the pos­si­bil­i­ties for Skyrim cus­tomiza­tion became vir­tu­ally lim­it­less. The abil­ity to both install and dis­trib­ute mods by way of Steam imme­di­ately pro­vided a boost to the PC ver­sion of the game and also put the spot­light on the bur­geon­ing mod­ding scene. Rarely does such a massively-popular game enable its play­ers to actively manip­u­late every aspect of it, but Bethesda’s Skyrim Cre­ation Kit allows play­ers to do just that. To demon­strate just how mal­leable their game was, Bethesda staff even began releas­ing their own mods.

From The Elder Scrolls Face­book page…

‎1.4 update should go up on Xbox LIVE early tomor­row morn­ing. PS3 update is look­ing good for tomor­row as well. If we get an update from Sony, we’ll let you know.