» Fri Apr 09, 2010 9:59 pm THIS THREAD IS NOT JUST ABOUT THE POLL! READ THE FIRST POST BEFORE POSTING!
The Skyrim cover will be revealed on January 6th 2011
There will be a cover story in a UK mag as well as in a number of other countries. Fear not.
http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1151387-the-february-game-informer-cover-thread/
As most of us know the February issue of the Game Informer magazine will feature 14 whole pages of Skyrim information/pictures/awesomeness.
The prestigious cover of the mag will also belong to Skyrim!
This thread is for thoughtful discussion and speculation of the topic and what we think will be revealed. Once the cover has been revealed we can keep all discussions to this series of threads so the mods don't have to spend all their time redirecting people's rants about how the cover is "zomg cool". Once the Mag is shipped to subscribers we can post small bits of information to share with other forum members who don't subscribe to GI.
For information on the rules of posting info on the magazine click on this http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1149624-do-not-post-magazine-scans-transcripts-or-links-to-either/.
Fortunately Todd Howard has already stated that "when we show it, we want to show a lot, because there's a lot of game there to play right now." http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2010-08-16-todd-howard-working-on-two-new-games
Here is the link to the Game Informer article on the matter: http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2010/12/13/the-elder-scrolls-v-skyrim-coming-next-issue.aspx
Here is the link to the Bethesda Podcast in which Todd Howard touches on the subject: http://www.bethblog.com/podcast/
(They start talking about GI around the 6:50 mark in the podcast if anyone just wants to skip to it.) - Wahoo
"They saw a lot [Game Informer visited the office of Bethesda last week] and I think, I hope, everybody is surprised with how much stuff were showing. It's... it's a lot. We wanted to sorta compress the amount of time that we talked about the game. It's still eleven months, it's a long time, but traditionally we're going on like two years talking about a game, so we start out very slow and we wanted to come out of the gate with a lot of... A lot of STUFF. So I think the fans will be excited." - Todd Howard
"And wait until you see what this game is all about! Mind...blown..." - Andrew Reiner
"Our Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim coverage has expanded from 12 pages to 14, making it our largest game-based cover story." - Andrew Reiner http://twitter.com/#!/Andrew_Reiner
I noticed some people in the last thread were confused about when stores would have Game Informer on the shelves. My local stores told me it's usually 2 or so weeks into the month, but sometimes it's longer. The best thing for everyone to do would be to call the Gamestop or other store they plan on getting the game from and ask them when they usually put issues on the shelves. Alternatively you could just call the store every single day after the 6th and ask them if they've put it on the shelf yet.
Todd said in the podcast that he hopes people are happy and surprised how much info they are revealing in the article. In his words, "It's a lot."
Personally, it's going to look AMAZING. Pete was BRAGGING on his twitter account about how the dstr were stunned at how good it looks. These guys see games every day, so for them to say stunned means it's going to be amazing. This is Bethesda as well, they won't show something unless it will make our Jaw drop and dance around like school girls.
http://twitter.com/#!/DCDeacon/status/14656367419719681
http://twitter.com/#!/DCDeacon/status/14656367419719681
If anyone has any other information then post it here and I will add it to the first post.
