After 
a long day of taking arrows in the knee, it’s nice to have somewhere to kick up your feet.
Hearthfire, the next downloadable expansion to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, will let players purchase land and build houses from the ground up. The add-on is set to release for the Xbox 360 on September 4 for 400 Microsoft points. There’s no set date at this point for a PC or PS3 version.
Chalk up 
another big win for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Bethesda’s much-loved dragon-slaying role-playing-game has taken home another Game of the Year award, this time from one of the most widely respected bodies in the video game industry.
The Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences held its annual Interactive Achievement Awards Thursday night at the DICE summit, with Skyrim taking top honors — as well as four other awards. Uncharted 3 and Portal 2 each took home a trio of trophies.
Critics aren’t 
the only people falling in love with the latest installment of The Elder Scrolls.
Bethesda Softworks says it has shipped 7 million copies of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim to retailers, with about 3.5 million copies being sold through in the first 48 hours. Making that number even more impressive? That was just for the Xbox 360 version.
The annual QuakeCon video game 
expo in Texas draws a pretty dedicated crowd. Few, however, are as dedicated as engaged gamers Chaz and Stevi.
This past Thursday, the couple was sitting in a demonstration for Bethesda’s upcoming role-playing epic The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim when Stevi, who was nine months pregnant, began to feel what she thought were contractions.
This is when a normal person might go to the hospital. Not Stevi.
The gaming world is exploding today with news that Zenimax 
Media, the parent company of id Software and Bethesda Softworks, has filed a trademark for “Oblivion”. Specifically, that trademark is meant for use in “motion picture film production; entertainment services, namely, providing motion picture theatrical films in the field of fantasy games.”
Inevitably, that has led to speculation that a film adaptation of the most recent “Elder Scrolls” game may be in the works. Don’t hold your breath.
Chris Morris: Journalist 