The next three spots were taken by the Black Ops 2 Season Pass, Skyrim Hearthfire and then Dawnguard. The conditions for these sales aren’t hard to guess: Black Ops Revolution was delayed for the PS3 and released alongside pretty much all the other DLC packs this past February.

Couple that with discounts on the Skyrim’s DLC, which also saw crucial packs being delayed, and also that both games are fairly hot properties, and voila. Making it rain on the PlayStation 3.

In fact, Black Ops 2 ranks number 4 on the Top 20 PS3 and PSN Games list, with thatgamecompany’s Journey holding steady. Nobody ever said minting money was easy.

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Dragonborn allows players to travel to the land of Solstheim, featured in the Bloodmoon expansion of The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, a costal region full of new towns, dungeons, quests, enemies and much much more. The most awesome additions to the game come from the shouts, which can now bend the will of your enemies and tame dragons to the point of gaining their servitude.

The central storyline is pretty much standard fare however: You must travel to this new land to fight the first Dragonborn, namely Miraak and his cultists who don’t know any better. But hey, in Dragonborn, it’s the moments that make up the game – and dragon riding ones are worth it.

Check out our review of the DLC for Xbox 360 here.

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Thankfully, then, the third major Skyrim DLC release. the newly released Dragonborn, is flat out incredible, and one of the best examples of how DLC should be handled. With an entirely new set of locales to explore outside of Skyrim, and near fan favorite Morrowind, an entirely new questline that adds substantially to both general Elder Scrolls lore, and specifically, to Skyrim’s backstory, and finally, a lot of fan service to players who played and enjoyed previous Elder Scrolls games, and most notably Morrowind, Dragonborn nails it completely.

It’s a substantial download, at over 800 MB, and when you actually start the questline, you realize why: Dragonborn takes place on Solstheim, an island off the coast of Morrowind; across the expanse of the island, you will find the geography changing dramatically, from the now familiar snow clad rocky locales of Skyrim, to the more exotic scenery of Morrowind proper, replete with giant mushrooms and the like.

Dragonborn sees you follow the questline of the original Dragonborn, the Dovahkiin Miraak. After Miraak turned evil, he was banished to Oblivion, and he is now trying to return to Tamriel. Frankly, the story and the setup stop mattering after a while. Wheras the setup is great, because it adds substantially to the series’ extensive lore, after it sets the new questlines up, it gradually recedes into the background in terms of importance, eventually degenerating into giving you just an excuse to go perform the next task that you have been given. Sadder still, Miraak never really comes off as menacing, and after a while, his one gimmick begins to come off as genuinely comical, almost as if the game has become self aware at the sheer absurdity of the story it is trying to tell, and is now making fun of itself.

Where the storyline itself fails, pretty much everything else picks up on the slack. The locales in Solstheim are fresh and incredibly varied, and it feels like a miniature Morrowind/Skyrim hybrid all at once. The main questline itself lasts at least a good half dozen hours, following which there is at least twice that many hours worth of extra content, quite a lot of which is, in true Elder Scrolls tradition, banal, but most of which is impressively addictive. And then there is also the dragon riding.

Dragon riding is probably the most publicized feature of the new DLC, and it’s easy to see why, to the legions of new players introduced to the franchise via Skyrim, the prospect of riding a dragon after you tame it becomes so alluring. And while Bethesda went the really safe route and opted to make dragon riding an all on rails affair, with pre determined flight paths, that does not take away from the sheer freshness and absolute excitement of it, although it does become fairly boring once the sheen has worn off. Whereas right now, it is understandable that Bethesda opted to not have free roaming dragon riding in order to keep the player firmly within the designated playground, I hope one day, we get a game where we can use dragons to get to any part of the scenery we damn well please to.

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In spite of its fairly obvious limitations, Dragonborn is brilliant. To any Elder Scrolls fan with Skyrim, it is recommended. To any Morrowind fan, it is recommended. To any Skyrim fan, it is recommended. To anyone who possibly feels that Skyrim somehow needs to provide them with more value for money than it already did, Dragonborn is recommended. It is a rare example of DLC done right, and is flat out the best Skyrim DLC available at the moment.

This game was reviewed on the Xbox 360.

They have been leaked by a beta tester and reported by Theouthousers, who have listed a ton of information on the DLC which may very well tell you all that you need to know about it. 

The DLC will hit Xbox 360 first, and if you are reading this, you probably already know that by now. We also have bad quality images of the DLC, but at this point, it doesn’t matter because you are interested to see new information that Bethesda have not officially released, so it’s a fair game.

Here are the details of Skyrim Dragonborn below the images, the DLC will be released soon.

Achievements:

Outlander – Arrive on Solstheim (20 G)
Raven Rock Owner – Own a house in Raven Rock (20 G)
Solstheim Explorer – Discover 30 Locations on the island of Soltheim (30 G)
The Temple of Knowledge – Complete “The Temple of Miraak” (20 G)
The Path of Knowledge – Complete “The Path of Knowledge” (20 G)
At the Summit of Apocrypha – Complete “At the Summit of Apocrypha (40 G)
Hidden Knowledge – Learn the secrets of 5 Black Books (40 G)
Stalhrim Crafter – Craft an item out of Stalhrim (20 G)
Dragon Aspect – Learn all 3 words of Dragon Aspect (20 G)
DragonRider – Tame and Ride 5 dragons (20 G)

New Shouts:

Cyclone – creates a small tornado (that is pretty funny to use)
Bend Will – force a dragon to fight with you.
Dragon Riding – player hasn’t gotten to this one yet.
Dragon Aspect – creates the dragon armor from trailer and gives stronger shouts, stronger melee attacks and summon Ancient Dragonborn to fight with you when you get low on health.  Can only be used once per day.
Battle Fury – like Elemental Fury but for NPCs

Start of the DLC:

Cultists of Miraak are searching for the false dragonborn (you), and when they find you they attempt to kill you.  Assuming you kill them first, you find a note on them that tells you what they are doing and where they came from.  You find their boat docked at Windhelm and proceed to Solstheim.

You don’t have to complete the main quest to start the DLC, but the character of Miraak has different dialogue if you have already killed Alduin.

The size of Solstheim is about equal to the reach and has its own seperate map.

Player is about 30+ hours in and not finished yet, though said one could probably rush through the main quest in 10 hours.

New Locations added:

(Hubs): Raven Rock (can buy a player home there), Tel Mithryn (can buy a player home there as well), Skaal Village (follower is from here + is a new marraige candidate)
(Imperial Forts): Fort Frostmoth, Ashfallow Citadel, Highpoint Tower
(Shacks): Hrodulf’s House, Abandoned Lodge
(Caves): Frostmoon Crag (home to werewolf pack that you can talk with if you are one), Bristleback Cave, Castel Karstaag Caverns & Ruins, Glacial Cave, Benkongerike, Frossel, Hrothmun’s Barrow
(Landmarks): Brodir Grove, Altar of Thrond, Stalhrim Source, Horker Island (Island of Lord Tusk)
(Nordic Ruins): Kolbjorn Barrow (quest to help excavate), Bloodskaal Barrow, Vaholok’s Tomb, Gyldenhul Barrow.
(Dwemer Ruins): Nchardak, Kagrumez, Fahlbtharz
(All-Maker Stones): Earth Stone, Watern Stone, Wind Stone, Beast Stone, Sun Stone
(Others): Northshore Landing Dock, Old Attius Farm, Snowclad Ruins, Headwaters of Harstrad, Moesring Pass, Bujold’s Retreat, Haknir’s Shoal, Saering’s Watch, Thirsk Mead Hall, Broken Tusk Mine, Damphall Mine, & Miraak’s Temple.
(In Skyrim): Last Vigil

New Creatures & Baddies:

Werebears – no word on whether the player can become one yet, but all have been hostile so far.  They transform into the bear after being near them a short time.
The Morag Tong – They seem to act more like Silver Hand encounters where you fight against them a bit and have random encounters of them.  No ability to join with them so far.  Hostile Dunmer in Morag Tong armor.
Serpent-like creature – Player won’t describe this excactly, though says one is pictured in the trailer and won’t give its exact name either.
Lurkers – Extremely tough and frustrating enemies with plenty of health and dish out a lot of damage.  Good challenge.  About the size of giants and they are creatures that have ‘slipped’ into Tamriel from H. Mora’s realm.
Ash Spawn – officially mentioned and pictured in Bethesda’s releases.
Rieklings – officially mentioned and pictured in Bethesda’s releases.
New Dragon types encountered.
New Dwemer automation – a walking dwarven ballista.

New Weapons & Armor:

Deathbrand Armor – similar to stalhrim
Two Unique Scimitars you can get by the end of the quests
Bonemold Armor – Officially mentioned by Bethesda (heavy armor)
Chitin Armor – Officially mentioned by Bethesda (possibly a light armor)
Stalhrim Weapons and armor – Again, officially mentioned (many of these you can glimpse in the trailer and screenshots)
Carved Nordic Armor& Weapons – a heavy armor
Spears – I know there are some waiting for info on spears, but Bad News: Only the Reiklings have used them so far and if the player picks them up, they go into inventory as arrows.
Morag Tong Armor – another light armor you can get off of attackers.
New Thieves Guild Armor – though said to just be a non-buggy Linwe’s Armor.
Robes – Telvanni Robes and Miraak’s Robes

New Spells/Enchantments:

Poison Rune
Whirlwind Cloak
Ash Shell – lets you encase enemies in ash (paralyze) or slow them down with damage.
Waterwalking – back in enchantment and potion form
A new Ring that allows resurrected creatures to explode into frost and fire damage.
Staff Enchanting
New Active Effect – from H. Mora’s realm you can find a book that lets you choose from three active effects: Mora’s Mercy, Mora’s Wrath and Mora’s Agony.  You can return to the realm and choose a new effect if you want to replace it (sounds like a similar thing to the effect Parthurnax gives you, or the one you receive for the Nightengale quest)  There are five books total, with three options per book, you can get five effects in all supposedly.
New Summoning power – player doesn’t want to spoil what it is, but says it’s cool.
Summon Spells – 3 mentioned:Ash Guardian, Ash Spawn, Seeker

Other Notes:

Bethesda did a great job with Hermaeus Mora’s Realm.  Twisting Hallways, walls with many books, a dark twisted look.  HM is an integral part of the DLC.

There is one quest that involved Thalmor, you can scare them off of Solstheim.

All the great Dunmer houses exist, Hlallu is shunned due to its ties with the Empire, Redoran is the primary house on Solstheim, Telvani doesn’t have a big presence.  The Tribunal still exists, though not in the form shown in Morrowind.  And you get a chance to join house Telvanni and get a home in a gaint mushroom.

And last some random short comments mentioned: Delvin Mallory is Sapphire’s Uncle (you will meet her father/his brother), Burnt Spriggans, Captain Falx Carius, Gratian Caerullius, King of the Little People, Mind Control, Serpents, Telvani Master Neloth.

A new quest you can start if you are level 81: Ebony Warrior.