Bethesda has announced that a high-res texture pack for the PC edition of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is available now on Steam.

Windows Vista or Windows 7, 4GB of RAM, and a DirectX 9.0c compatible AMD or NVIDIA graphics card with 1GB of RAM will be required to run the high res texture pack.

Skyrim was the Gameplanet Players’ Choice Game of the Year for 2011. In his 9.5/10 review, Dan Cheer called the epic title “the best RPG experience available right now.”

 

Capcom is prepared to acknowledge that Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City will have a polarising effect on fans of the series. It's about to cast off the shackles of the genre it helped to popularise and instead fully embrace the third-person shooting it has trended towards in recent years.

Far from an irrevocable change of course however, Capcom suggests that SOCOM developer Slant 6’s output should be considered in isolation. Resident Evil: Revelations for 3DS is available now, and Capcom has just announced Resident Evil 6. Due in November, it’s to be a traditional instalment that the publisher is reported to be investing in more heavily than any other product on its busy slate.

The Resident Evil series is also in some ways a victim of its own success. As demand for games in the series has remained steady, the requirement to expand the literature and find new stories has resulted in a convoluted fiction. A fast paced cooperative shooter, Operation Raccoon City takes players back to the heady heydays of Resident Evils 2 and 3, and offers a new perspective on those events by recounting the actions of a villainous Umbrella Security Services squad tasked with covering up the corporation’s involvement in the outbreak of the T-Virus.