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Skyrim Tops UK Christmas Charts — December 19, 2011

TES V: Skyrim has broken an eight-year run in which the Number One game in the UK Christmas charts came from either Activision or EA. Even though overall sales are down from their peak, the game managed to outsell Just Dance 3 and Modern Warfare 3 to seal the top spot. The continuing popularity of the game is presumably the main reason that UESP has been getting 5-6 million page hits per day, making the site one of the top 2,000 destinations on the entire Internet over the past few weeks. Skyrim Wins Awards — December 12, 2011

TES V: Skyrim had a big night at the Spike VGA awards. The game marked the first anniversary of its announcement by winning the Game of the Year and RPG of the Year awards, while Bethesda picked up Studio of the Year.

Update: X-Play has also awarded Skyrim with Game of the Year and Best RPG honors. Site Performance Update — November 17, 2011

As many of you may have experienced, the site's performance the past week has been relatively poor with slow loading pages and even complete load failures. We've finally tracked down the issue to a 10,000 connection limit of the firewall, a limit we were not previously aware of or had the ability to check. The fix is already in the works so hopefully the pages will be quick to load in the coming weeks and months. Other than that issue, however, the site's servers have been handling the near x10 traffic increase very well.

Update: The connection limit on the firewall has been temporarily bypassed by setting up a temporary server outside of the cluster. Since then the site traffic has nearly doubled what it was this past week. Various other performance tweaks are ongoing to ensure good site performance as we approach a x20 fold traffic increase.