News Blips: Skyrim patch, Nintendo sales, Final Fantasy 7 remake, and more

Black Friday cost me a lot. When the clerk rang everything up, the register's display simply read "your dignity" as the price I had to pay.

News Blips:

Skyrim patch coming this Wednesday; here’s a full list of changes:

Improved occasional performance issues resulting from long-term play (PS3)
Fixed issue where textures would not properly upgrade when installed to drive (360)
Fixed crash on startup when audio is set to sample rate other than 44100Hz (PC)
Fixed issue where projectiles did not properly fade away
Fixed occasional issue where a guest would arrive to the player’s wedding dead
Dragon corpses now clean up properly
Fixed rare issue where dragons would not attack
Fixed rare NPC sleeping animation bug
Fixed rare issue with dad corpses being cleared up prematurely
Skeleton Key will now work properly if player has no lockpicks in their inventory
Fixed rare issue with renaming enchanted weapons and armor
Fixed rare issue with dragons not properly giving souls after death
ESC button can now be used to exit menus (PC)
Fixed occasional mouse sensitivity issues (PC)
General functionality fixes related to remapping buttons and controls (PC)

Wait, Bethesda “fixed” the rare issue where dragons don't attack? Wonderful, looks like they also fixed the rare issue where I would occasionally not piss myself.

Nintendo sells over 500,000 copies of Super Mario 3D Land and The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword. That makes 3D Land the fastest selling portable Mario title and Skyward Sword the fastest selling Zelda. It turns out that the world is filled with plenty of software-starved Nintendo fans. [1UP]

Yoshinori Kitase, producer at Square Enix, says it’s better to leave Final Fantasy 7 be. The Final Fantasy 13-2 producer pointed out that dedicated fans wouldn’t be too thrilled with the changes he'd inevitably make to the 14-year-old game. “I would be really tempted to delete things and add new elements, new systems, or whatever, because if we were to make exactly the same thing now, it’d be like a repeat,” Kitase said to OXM. Dude, Kitase, don’t let your bosses hear you talking like that! If it weren’t for pointlessly repurposed versions of old games, Square Enix would hardly have anything to sell. [Destructoid]

Here’s a map detailing most of the important areas in The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim. It takes a long time to really get a lay of the land in Tamriel’s most northern province. Go ahead and take this map to help you discover some of those more cleverly hidden caves. [GamePro]