Skyrim Creation Kit in January, new patch next week

In what must surely be the first herald of the flying mammoth apocalypse, Bethesda‘s announced it’s putting out a free Skyrim Creation Kit for PC next month, featuring “same development tools we used at Bethesda Game Studios to create Skyrim”.

The world will never be the same, but I guess that’s kind of the point.

The Creation Kit also includes Steam Workshop integration, so you can quickly and easily share your neon pink dragons with everybody else.

In the meantime, there’s another patch scheduled to drop on all platforms next week to “fix issues like magic resistance not calculating properly and the rare, amazing backwards flying dragon”, so this weekend will probably be your last chance to go backwards dragon spotting.

“We all know this is a huge game, and everyone has a different experience,” says Bethesda. “We’ll continue to do everything we can to make the game better and better for as many people as possible every day. We’ve also realized that with the millions upon millions of people playing Skyrim, we need to treat our updates with greater care.

“If we get too aggressive trying to fix a minor issue, we run a risk of breaking something larger in a game like this. To be safe, we are prioritizing code side fixes right now over data fixes. Quest and balance issues are usually data, and those will start rolling in a large way with the January updates.”