The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition News

Skyrim's Anniversary Edition update may be more disruptive to mods than expected

If you play Skyrim: Special Edition with mods, you've probably got Steam set to "only update this game when I launch it" in the properties menu, and you launch it from a separate exe via your mod manager of choice. If you don't, then every time the Bethesda Creation Club gets some new content, it breaks the Skyrim Script Extender (SKSE), a vital plug-in needed for several of the best Skyrim mods...
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Here's a mod to boost your outdoor framerate in Skyrim Special Edition

If you take advantage of the way Skyrim Special Edition handles heavy mod loads to tweak the heck out of it—and especially if you use an ENB to overhaul the graphics—you've probably taken a hit to your framerate. (I've been using Ominous ENB to give things a gloomy, somber look, but it costs up to 20fps in some areas.) If that's you, exterior FPS boost is here to help...
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The NoSkyrim mod has been banned from Nexus Mods

NoSkyrim is a mod by ThatLittleCommie that prevents you from playing Skyrim. You click the button, nothing happens. That's it. That's the mod. As the description explains, "Now with NoSkyrim, instead of being able to start a new game like most skyrim players, you just can't". Helpfully, it "Also works with alternate start". If you've got a serious Skyrim habit you'd like to break, NoSkyrim could be the solution to your problem...
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Skyrim Anniversary Edition comes with everything in the Creation Club

During Quakecon, Bethesda announced that it would release Skyrim Anniversary Edition on Skyrim's 10th birthday, November 11, providing an opportunity for memelords to dust off gags about its endless cycle of ports and rereleases once again. Said Anniversary Edition will feature "over 500 unique pieces of content from Creation Club", and if you've already got Skyrim Special Edition you'll be able to buy it as an upgrade. Even if you don't buy the upgrade, Skyrim Special Edition is getting a fishing update, adding new mechanics that will let you "grab a fishing pole, do some fishing quests"...
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Skyrim is getting fishing and yet another new edition

Ten years after the release of Skyrim, Bethesda will revisit their fantasy RPG series with... another edition of Skyrim. Yep, still no Elder Scrolls 6 news. But at QuakeCon yesterday, Bethesda did announce a new 'Anniversary Edition' crammed with hundreds of wee bits and pieces of extra content from their Creation Club store. Perhaps more interesting than that, they also revealed that they're adding fishing to Special Edition, in a slightly fiddly way.