Skyrim sold 20 million copies worldwide, making it one of the most popular games of all time, so it was a bit of no-brainer that Bethesda would bring the Elder Scrolls stalwart to Xbox One and PlayStation 4.

Skyrim Special Edition will hit the shelves on October 28 but according to Bethesda's VP of Marketing, it won't include any new features or content, just cosmetic changes.

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Time to put on your saddest pointy hat and crack out the mead of consolation.

Apparently VR support and user interface changes are also off the table and visual enhancements to the game world are all Skyrim SE will offer in terms of real change.

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The Dawnguard, Dragonborn, and Hearthfire DLC packs are all included with the game in addition to the fancy visual jiggerypokery like "volumetric god rays, dynamic depth of field [and] screen-space reflections". Crikey, that's a lot of big words for a Tuesday lunchtime.

This is usually the point where we would provide our dear readers with solace in the form of the next instalment in the series, but it looks like Elder Scrolls VI won't arrive for quite some time. Bethesda has confirmed that the game isn't in development and hinted that its internal staff fancy a change from the constant yoyo-ing between Fallout and Elder Scrolls.

New IP? Yes please.

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