Speculation about The Elders Scroll V: Skyrim has been running rampant since the teaser trailer as shown at the Spike VGAs and the teaser site went live soon after.  We know one thing for certain though, the PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 game from Bethesda Softworks won't be built on the same game engine as any previous games.

While there be dragons in the game, Skyrim will also sport a brand new shiny engine according to the Bethblog twitter.  "Seeing lots of speculation about #tesv game engine. It's brand new... and it's spectacular!," it said.

Good news as the game engines from Oblivion, Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas are beginning to show their age.

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is due out on November 11, 2011.

http://www.examiner.com/console-gaming-in-national/the-elder-scrolls-v-skyrim-uses-brand-new-engine

I wonder if it's the engine RAGE is running on.

Great! Also, here's the heavenly bread for the new engine beggars!

really?! because I remember reading on some forum that they'll be using an improved version of Gamebryo, the new one will be for fallout 4. but don't take my word for it, it could be wrong.

Thank god, put lets hope bethesda fixes its biggest problem- the atrocious art design 

This. Now I'm confused. First they say it'll use the old engine, albeit an improved version of it, then they say it'll be brand new.

maybe it's like gamebryo 2.5 . like bioshock was unreal 2.5 . (I think) XD and they call it new

hopefully it's new though

Don't think it's true.

Not long ago Bethesda themselves said it will use an updated version of the same engine.

If it uses a new one, maybe it will even have a negative impact on mods.

I thought it ran on unreal engine 3.

IIRC it was more like UE2.5, although they called it UE3 because it probably was closer to UE3 than UE2. Besides, using UE3 sounds a lot better than using UE2.5.

That said, I could very well be wrong.

Bethesda's community manager says it's so- http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=415608&page=12 (about halfway down).

Thank Christ.