Portal 2 crash lands in Skyrim

Posted February 13, 2012 by Luke Stratford in News, Videos.

A wonderfully surreal collaboration between Steam and Bethesda brings Portal 2 and Skyrim closer together.

With the Skyrim Creation Kit and Steam Workshop now up and running, Bethesda and Valve have chosen to celebrate these community milestones by releasing the ‘special suprise‘ hinted at in development blogs – dropping the Space Core from Portal 2 into Skyrim. Literally.

As you can see in the video below, the mod, entitled ‘Fall of the Space Core Vol. 1′ is a simple little affair, dropping the obsessively star-struck sphere into an abandoned shack for the player to find, kick about, lose in their ‘Misc’ inventory and Thu’um about at their discretion. Sadly, the Space Core, voiced by one Nolan North, proves to be fairly ineffective in combat – only offering comments on the lack of dragons in space, the general awesomeness of space, and the fact that you should totally go into space.

Which, barring a Mothership Zeta-like DLC, probably won’t happen. Sorry, Space Core.

The mod, which you can find here, is one of the many new additions to the Steam Marketplace – which currently boasts 2,486 mods now integrated into the subscription system which allows players to follow mod projects, as well as automatically downloading, installing and updating their versions of the mod as the author uploads it.

Currently, it still lags behind the tremendous scale of the Nexus network, encompassing the modding communities for not only Skyrim, but Oblivion, Fallout: New Vegas and Fallout 3, but given the complexity inherent in a community-run site, the Steam Workshop looks set to carve out a healthy little niche in gamers who want to enjoy mods without worrying too much about tinkering with the game.

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