Skyrim - Making a Dragon Sandwich and More

I'll collect a small handful of Skyrim items here.

There's a new Skyrim developer diary titled Making a Dragon Sandwich: The Sound of Skyrim. THere's a podcast, a video, photo slideshow and transcription from the podcast:

Early on in a project, the footsteps Lampert most often records are those of his wife. When they couple is on vacation, hiking through the hills of a remote country, the microphone comes along for the ride.

“My wife has to put up with me stopping all the time. I've got a lot of recordings that begin with her footsteps walking off. You hear her walking away as I lag behind to get one minute of this bird or cricket or whatever.

"Hang on, hang on, I've gotta record this one button, it's got a funny mechanical ping to it -- that sounds like something we could use some day, in some game, somewhere.”

For those interested in such things, you can buy Avatar packs from XBL, and there's a rather nice "postcard" wallpaper. Finally, you can pre-order the 4-disc soundtrack (as in actual discs in a pack, not a download).