It’s No Joke: You Can Play A Very Special Edition of Skyrim Using Alexa on Amazon Echo
Jun. 11, 2018Skyrim has been ported to every popular console, and remastered for VR, and so many revisions have given birth to jokes about the developer porting it every possible computing device with a screen. But this time Bethesda is taking it to the next level and will let you play Skyrim even without a screen or handheld controller.
At the E3 conference, Bethesda chuckled about porting the game toAmazon Echodevices and every device that runsAlexa, showing a commercial featuring comedian Keegan-Michael Key. While attendees might have taken it for a gag, you can, in fact,play Skyrim using voice commandswith Alexa.
Sadly for most of the Echo owners, this version islimited to users in the US. We fidgeted with settings, set the Echo Plus’ location to the US; even on a US VPN the skill refused to load. But at least 60 users have reviewed the skill which has earned it an overall rating of 4.7 stars on Amazon, so it must be pretty damn slick.
As for other versions, the trailer showed by Bethesda reveals thatSkyrim will soon reach Motorola pagers, Etch-a-Sketch,andSamsung smart fridges, which sadly is not true. But if you’re in the US, you can very well enjoy the game by talking to Alexa.
