I know that in recent weeks, a number of magazines have had cover stories with exclusive information about Skyrim. There's been coverage by the Dutch magazine Power Unlimited, Gamereactor, Official PlayStation Magazine, and Official Xbox Magazine, and I think there was one from Italy.

This is good information, but it can't be added to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elder_Scrolls_V:_Skyrim because you can't reference forum topics, and I don't have details about the magazine author etc.

So, I was wondering if anybody could provide the:
* Author's first and last name
* Title of cover story
* Magazine issue month
* Page numbers (including how many pages the article is)
* Publisher
* Issue number
of the cover stories by the aforementioned magazines?

Assistance is greatly appreciated.

German mag:

Mag and issue: ComputerBild Spiele 3/2011
Article: The Elder Scrolls 5 Skyrim
Pages: 6 - 14
Author: Ralf Linzmaier

Thanks for that. Still need the publisher and issue number though.

Is there anybody else who can be of help?

I have a question regarding page 57 in the GI magazine where it says in the first paragraph "Though the Elder Scrolls video game franchise has been around since 1994, dragons have never been a part of gameplay. That's because the fiction has been clear on the point that dragons were banished form the world thousands of years ago. Until now."

Okay, what the hell are these then?

http://www.uesp.net/wiki/File:DaggerfallDragonling.gif
http://www.uesp.net/image.shtml?dagger/images/dragon.gif

Dragons most certainly were a part in the game series. Dragonlings are just baby dragons.

Official Playstation Magazine - UK
Issue 055, Spring 2011
officialplaystationmagazine.com
Future Publishing

12 Pages (10 if you dont include the two page spread introductory image with a paragraph of text) starting from page 70 and the last page being 81.

The writer isn't said specifically, but the staff of the mag are;
Tim Clark - Editor-in-chief
Ben Wilson - Editor
Leon Hurley - Deputy Editor
Rachel Wber - News Editor
Joel Gregory - Staff Writer
Sarah Ditum - Production Editor

I've covered it in this thread here if you need any other specifics: http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1167518-official-playstation-magazine/

Yes dragonlings were certainly around and even abundant in Daggerfall, and Arena had a dragon, but that doesnt really destroy the lore of them being banished, no lore says when they left they took all their young with them, (maybe they had to take leave as they reached maturity), and 1 lone dragon is just like 1 lone Dwarf like from Morrowind

But Howard specifically states "NEVER been a part of lore". Never means "never". Todd should have said "Dragon's have never been a part of lore, except in TESI and TESII... but other than that, never." I mean really, what the hell was he thinking? And Todd even said himself that Arena was his favorite game in the ES series and he was the lead developer on Daggerfall. So I don't get where he's coming from.

That second screen from Daggerfall is Peryite, a Daedric prince, often depicted as a six-limbed dragon. Traditional dragons in lore only have four limbs (two-legs, two wings), and are either red or black. You're right about the Dragonling's though, they are young dragons, but you never see older ones, so we've never had them in the giant sense. I don't think they were banished, well kind of, but dragons were mostly wiped out by the "serpent-people" of Akavir, and the cliff racers of Morrowind. They did have some influence over Cyrodil at one point, but I think they've decided to go into hiding, and prepare for what we eventually see happen in Skyrim.

When you say "hiding", do you mean in the dungeons of High Rock? Because that's where they most certainly were when I played TESII. Once in a rare while I'd run into one in the wilderness while camping.

So we're forgetting http://uesp.net/wiki/File:RG_dragon.jpg already? Poor Naffy.

Though the GI article, it's the writer that says they've never been a part of gameplay, not Todd. And in one of the interviews, Todd did make a quick mention of Redguard having a dragon. As for the dragonlings, I've heard that they're not really dragons, but I'm not sure where that came from.


Daggerfall was the first he worked on, but I don't think he was lead until Redguard.

That's awesome! I wish I Redguard was available for download somewhere. Well a ducking is a baby duck and I'm sure it was the developers' intent to imply that a dragonling was a baby dragon. It wasn't directly stated but common sense points to that direction. Thanks for that redguard dragon. I guess the GI author didn't know what he was talking about.

Thanks for that.

Anybody have the details for PC Gamer UK?

Official Xbox 360 magazine - UK
Issue 70 March, 2011
www.oxm.co.uk
Future Publishing

16 page spread (p.30-45 - one page being an ad for the podcast and other online exclusives)
Words by Mike Channell.

Hope that helps :thumbsup:

Maybe they were not actual dragons but Drakes which are a subset of dragon kind, and Todd never said they were never a part of TES lore as he referenced them himself, and they are mentioned in the elderscrolls quite a bit, and are directly mentioned in the histories pertaining to the Septims family lineage,.... and like I said b4 ! lone dragon in a previous TES could be as easily overlooked as the 1 remaining dwarf was in Morrowind

And how the one remaining falmer will be in skyrim... I mean, what?

But there wasn't just one remaining dragon. There were tons of randomized baby dragons throughout Daggerfall, not just one.

It has been confirmed by playing a random quest in TESII Daggerfall that dragonlings are baby dragons. That article in GI magazine where the author said dragons have never been part of TES games didn't know what the hell he was talking about. Dragonlings are in fact baby dragons. Therefore, dragons were in a TES game prior to TESV.


http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/5792/19513187.jpg
http://img716.imageshack.us/img716/1520/38316830.jpg

And with that, we also know that they lay eggs so perhaps we'll get to see a dragon's nest with some baby dragons hatching in TESV!