Except that was never said. The information released so far mentioning anything about a new engine was most recently Nick Breckon's tweet.
"We can now confirm that the TES V: Skyrim engine is all-new. And it looks fantastic. 9:53 AM Dec 12th, 2010"

Not without Bethesda's permission they wouldn't and you know how they are.


Thing about that is Beth has been developing this game since 2007(same year Light Speed released) and Gamebryo didn't fold until this year.

The Gambryo Light Speed engine IS an all-new engine. The only thing that got carried over from the original engine was NIF(maybe), Speedtree and Bink.
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Allegorithmic: Substance
Substance Air is Allegorithmic's new generation texturing middleware solution. It was designed to help users create and customize a new kind of textures: lightweight, dynamic and infinitely versatile. Replacing ProFX Online, Substance Air includes Substance Editor, a new authoring tool with unique creative possibilities, and a revamped run-time engine designed to create and generate high-quality textures that can fit in only a few kilobytes. – www.allegorithmic.com

Aristen: FxStudio
FxStudio is the premiere video effects system for video games. Designed for artists, engineers and producers, FxStudio's impressive feature set delivers the results that modern day game teams are looking for. Robust component driven architecture provides an easy to use and flexible system for crafting effects. – www.fxstudio.com

Audiokinetic: Wwise
Wwise – WaveWorks Interactive Sound Engine – is the industry's only complete audio pipeline solution. Designed to suit your workflow, Wwise features the tight integration of an advanced audio authoring tool and a robust sound engine.” The Wwise solution is provided with LightSpeed. – www.audiokinetic.com

Autodesk: Kynapse
Autodesk Kynapse middleware is a leading artificial intelligence (AI) solution for game development and real-time simulations—adopted for more than 80 AAA game titles. This high-performance AI engine supports 3D pathfinding in destructible environments, including large-crowd pathfinding in complex terrains, dynamic 3D topology anolysis, and team coordination. And, with its efficient production tools and architecture designed for easy integration and customization, Kynapse helps to streamline the process of creating top-quality console and PC games. – www.autodesk.com/kynapse

Fork Particle: Fork Particle
Fork Particle Tool & SDK is a complete real time particle effects middleware including an advanced particle efffects authoring tool, runtime particle engine SDK, and live update for in-game effects editing: Fork Particle Studio, Fork Runtime SDK, and Fork Live Tuner. – www.forkparticle.com

IDV: Speedtree
SpeedTree is a powerful toolkit for creating and rendering vegetation in games. We've got an answer for all facets of real-time tree rendering: art assets, tree modeling, lighting, physics, run-time performance – you name it, we've got you covered. – www.speedtree.com

Illuminate Labs: Beast
? “Beast is a game engine-independent content pipeline tool used for advanced global illumination and dynamic relighting of characters. – www.illuminatelabs.com
Memoraze: MM-I

NaturalMotion: morpheme
morpheme is the industry's first graphically-authorable animation engine for Playstation 3, Xbox 360, Wii and PC. It has been designed from the ground up to give animators unprecedented control over the final look of their animations in-game. morpheme consists of a run-time animation engine and - uniquely - a powerful 3D authoring application for animators. – www.naturalmotion.com

NVIDIA: PhysX
NVIDIA PhysX technology adds an element of realism never before seen in gaming. With an NVIDIA GeForce GPU in your PC, experience dynamic PhysX effects like blazing explosions, reactive debris, realistic water, and lifelike characters.” The PhysX solution is provided with LightSpeed. – www.nvidia.com/physx

Pixelux: DMM
DMM (Digital Molecular Matter) is a technology to simulate "material physics", or the dynamic behavior of objects made of realistic materials. DMM handles soft-body, plastically deforming (e.g., bending metal) and breakable objects all within the same system. These capabilities distinguish DMM from rigid-body systems, which are limited to idealized rigid materials and are unable to simulate the deformation and fracture of real-world objects with the kind of kinetic fidelity that makes things seem real. – www.pixelux.ch

RAD Game Tools: Miles and Bink
Bink Video is our ubiquitous video codec. It is super, super fast, uses massively less memory than other codecs, and is optimized for each platform specifically. Bink includes a great audio codec with multi-channel and multi-language support. The Miles Sound System has been used in games since 1991! It handles all aspects of sound - multichannnel digital audio mixing, audio decompression (ADPCM, Ogg, MP3), 3D spatialization, voice chat, MIDI with DLS, and much more. Miles is available for all game platforms. – www.radgametools.com

Scaleform: GFx
Scaleform GFx 3.0 - Allowing development teams to quickly and easily implement 3D hardware accelerated game content and interfaces, including menu UIs, HUDs, animated textures, mini games, and even full casual games, speeding up development workflow, and freeing up programmers and artists to focus on what's most important: gameplay and design. New UI components and workflow enhancement tools, make starting a new project faster than ever. – www.scaleform.com

Sundog Software: SilverLining
SilverLining is a C++ library for real-time sky and 3D cloud rendering, used worldwide for games and visual simulations. – www.sundog-soft.com

Umbra: Umbra
Umbra? increases the game's frame rate by determining the set of visible objects on every frame. Performance is gained on both CPU and GPU when only visible objects are rendered. Umbra ? does all processing at runtime and it has been designed to handle large, complex and highly dynamic game worlds. Objects can be moved, added and removed at run-time without significant performance overhead. This opens up a bag full of possibilities for game- and level design. – www.umbrasoftware.com

xaitment: xaitControl, xaitMap
xaitment engineers AI game tools that go far beyond pathfinding. Using xaitment’s modular and intuitive tools, game designers and programmers can easily give NPCs the brainpower to challenge even the most seasoned gamer. – www.xaitment.com
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The features included in Light Speed are more than capable of sustaining Skyrim as we have seen it.

Do you people honestly believe that Bethesda built an entirely new engine from scratch. Of course they didn't, just like they have since MW they built an engine using various middleware like that found in the Light Speed package.



Don't forget that when Todd is talking about MW, OB, and FO3 as being their tech it is all based on the original Gamebryo middleware.

Oblivion already had swords.

Citation needed.

GI states they are using a completely new visual engine, and a while back Bethesda themselves said they would not be using the GameBryo engine after New Vegas.

Quote? Link?

Frankly I'm sick of linking it as is everyone else that's been posting here too long.

Worm: Llike Oblivion and Morrowind, as soon as the game was announced, Emergent were flaunting the game on their main website. It's a lot more complicated than "Bethesda won't let them do it."

:32 didnt look like a typical elder scrolls with the effects when he swings his sword. 1:05 however looks pretty sweet! who knows..

I f someone has already said this sorry. But can you imagine What you can do with a modified version of Dices FrosBite 2.0 Engine?

Denying that it's a new engine is incredibly cynical at this point. There are a ton of posts about the engine on Twitter and around.

In one Twitter post, Pete Hines said "It's not id Tech 5. It's an internal engine developed by BGS. Not sure if we've said what we call it yet." on Jan 10.

That sounds pretty definitive to me.

Nick Breckon said "We can now confirm that the TES V: Skyrim engine is all-new. And it looks fantastic." as was mentioned, but was then asked "What does "all-new" mean in this case? A new iteration of Gamebryo? Or something bespoke for Skyrim?" He responded with "It's a new graphics/gameplay engine built internally. We'll have more details down the road."

They're being very clear here.

And then there's the Game Informer article, that surely wouldn't have been posted if anyone there thought it would only lead to a let down (and they know whether there's a new engine in use or not).