Last week Bethesda mentioned that the Skyrim Creation Kit would arrive with a "special surprise." Rumours immediately appeared which hinted at an official high-res texture pack, rumours which ...

Canny Steam users had spotted records indicating an official high-resolution texture pack might be the surprise teased for the launch of Skyrim's PC mod Creation Kit, and it did indeed arrive ...

With that in mind, Snoopey0 has put together a neat comparison for the official Skyrim HD Texture Pack on YouTube. The video can be seen below.

On the scaled wings of yesterday's Dragonborn DLC release for Skyrim, the free HD Texture Pack from Bethesda has been updated with meatier visuals for all three DLC packs, including Hearthfire and ...

Bethesda has released a Steam update to Skyrim’s HD Texture Pack. The update adds improved textures for Dawnguard, Hearthfire, and Dragonborn. The firm notes that before downloading, to make ...

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim on PC just got a heck of a lot prettier. Not that it wasn't pretty before, but a new Steam update to Skyrim's free HD Texture Pack has been released adding improved ...

According to the official press release to use the new High Resolution Texture pack you better have a rig that exceeds Skyrim ’s recommended specs, including Windows Vista or 7 operating system ...

UPDATE: Bethesda has confirmed that a Skyrim PC high-res texture pack is now available for free download from Steam, alongside the Creation Kit. To run it, you'll need Windows Vista or Windows 7 ...

The texture pack is available only for the Windows PC version of Skyrim. Bethesda updated the free DLC now that the game’s third expansion, Dragonborn, is available on PC (it launched yesterday).

Many thanks to VG247 for spotting the update and even greater thanks to Craig Pearson for sharing the above video. You can pick up the newly updated texture pack here.

Of course if you’re too much of a Skyrim purist to add a high-tech AI space sphere into your game, the new texture pack is still a great bonus and a guaranteed crowd-pleaser for almost everyone.

Minecraft Xbox 360 Edition trailers the new Skyrim texture pack. The $3.99 add-on even recreates notable locales such as Whiterun, Riverwood and Bleak Falls Barrow. Since music also contributes to ...