I've heard mentions here of Skyrim fixing the Oblivion issues with level scaling, has Bethesda announced what it's doing for level scaling yet?

Also, are there open cities now? Can someone tell me where to find all the newly announced information besides the BethBlog, because that doesn't seem to have everything.

Pretty much like fallout, first not everything is at your level, you have different locations, close to the staring point they are probably levelled level 1-6 some distance away 5-12 other areas might be 10-20 and you probably have some real hard areas.

If you enter a low level area first time at level 1 enemies will be level 1, if you enter at level 6 or 20 they would be at their max level 6, if you enter a harder area like 5-12 at level 1 they will be level 5.
Two changes from Oblivion, enemies only follow your level inside their min and max level
Enemy level get locked first time you enter a dungeon, so if you enter a 5-12 dungeon at level 3 enemies will be level 5 then you come back at level 7.

There are dozens of topics already extant on Skyrim's leveling. One is currently just a few threads below this one!

Yep, something close to this. I honestly didn't even notice the level scaling in Fallout 3 so, I can say you won't have to worry about the scaling for Skyrim.

Indeed. There were some things in Fallout 3 that were too easy, but generally it was leveled pretty well. The game itself was easy, but not because of the leveling. Because of the over powered weapons.

Yeah, you could be pretty ridiculous with 100 weapon skill (small guns, big guns whatever) and 100 repair. I think all my weapons currently do 60+ damage. Pretty much everything = one shot if I score a headshot.

Yeh but most of them are talking about how they like/dislike it, not really giving a description on how it works. I mean I know I was also wondering about it, I have Fallout 3 and never actually noticed the level scaling system.

Maybe people aren't explaining it because it literally took me five seconds to use google "Fallout 3 level scaling system" fourth hit.
http://planetfallout.gamespy.com/wiki/Does_Fallout_3_Have_Level_Scaling_Like_Oblivion%3F