Pete Hines

Large save files are reportedly causing game-breaking framerate drops in the PlayStation 3 version of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. News of stuttering framerates affecting the PS3 version of the game first broke earlier this week, and it now appears the problem only begins once game saves top 5MB in size. More >

Pete Hines, Bethesda's VP of PR and marketing, has asked for players to give the publisher time as it works on patching out problems with The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Yesterday we reported that Bethesda had acknowledged texture scaling issues on the Xbox 360 version of the game. Since then, PS3 players have reported texture streaming problems and stuttering framerates, while those with the PC version are complaining of freezes of several seconds in length in outdoors sections. More >

Bethesda Softworks has admitted that developing for the PC is a "headache" compared to consoles due to differing hardware configurations and the threat of piracy hampering sales. The PC version of the recently released Rage, developed by Id Software and published by Bethesda, was beset with issues at launch, requiring a post-launch patch to fix driver-related bugs and add advanced graphics options. At the time, Id co-founder John Carmack admitted: "Half our PC customers got a product that basically didn't work." More >

Rumours circulating earlier today - which suggested that Bethesda had indefinitely suspended development of Doom 4 following Rage's mixed reception - have been dismissed as "Complete bollocks" in a curt tweet from VP of PR and marketing Pete Hines. More >

Bethesda vice president Pete Hines has responded to Minecraft creator Notch's comments regarding the ongoing trademark dispute between Zenimax and Mojang. Bethesda issued a trademark claim back in August regarding Mojang's upcoming project, Scrolls. More >

Speaking to Official Nintendo Magazine, vice president of PR and marketing Pete Hines said that, while there was a "possibility" of Bethesda developing for Wii U, the amount of work involved in porting and localising games for multiple platforms presented something of a stumbling block. "It's definitely a possibility for the future," he said. "We'll look at any platform that will support the games we're trying to make, but that's the key thing - the console has to support the game as it is designed." More >

Despite a poor critical and commercial reception, Bethesda vice president of marketing Pete Hines told us that he has no regrets about the decision to pick up the game for release, but admits that the publisher is now focused on "bigger and better things." "Nothing is a hundred percent in this industry, you know," he said. Wet could have done better but honestly for us it did pretty well - it sold quite a few copies for what it was. It wasn't Fallout 3, but not everything is... we're trying to look for even bigger and better things so that you look at them and go, 'That's really a game I can't afford to miss.'" Hines added: "I'll admit this freely, I was [one of the] few guys who saw Wet at Bethesda. I was like, 'That's really cool. It's very different.' It's not a home run. You don't look at it and go: 'There's no way that won't be a commercial smash.' The graphics were not the highest end graphics of the day, but it had a quality, it had personality, it had an edge to it.