The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is an action role-playing video game developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks. It is the fifth main installment in The Elder Scrolls series, following The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (2006), and was released worldwide for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360 on November 11, 2011. Wikipedia
Research exclusive to this game
Bjørkelo, Kristian A.. “‘Elves are Jews with Pointy Ears and Gay Magic’: White Nationalist Readings of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.” Game Studies 20, no. 3 (2020).
Champion, Erik, Terhi Nurmikko-Fuller, and Katrina Grant. “Alchemy and Archives, Swords, Spells, and Castles: Medieval-modding Skyrim.” Teaching the Middle Ages through Modern Games: Using, Modding and Creating Games for Education and Impact 11 (2022): 175.
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Dixon, Daniel H. 2024. Introducing the Single Player Offline Game Corpus (SPOC): A corpus of seven registers from digital role-playing games. Corpora 19(1).
Joyce, Lindsey. “Assessing Mass Effect 2 and Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim: Using collaborative criteria for player agency in interactive narratives.” Journal of games criticism 3 (2016).
Piero, Mike. “The Chronotope of Madness in Borderlands and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.” In Video Game Chronotopes and Social Justice: Playing on the Threshold, pp. 195-230. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022.
Stein, Simon David. “Space Rednecks, Robot Butlers, and Feline Foreigners: Language Attitudes Toward Varieties of English in Videogames.” Games and Culture (2023): 15554120221150156.
Taylor-Giles, Leanne. “Player-centred design in role-playing game branching dialogue systems.” Game User Experience And Player-Centered Design (2020): 295-325.