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Game developer Bethesda Softworks has announced the upcoming Skyrim Special Edition and Fallout 4 will both be receiving mod support on the PS4. Previously, this had been in some doubt — while Bethesda announced plans to bring FO4 mod support to both the Xbox One and PlayStation 4, updates from earlier this summer suggested that Sony wasn’t keen on the idea and Bethesda might scrap it altogether. It’s not clear how the two companies came to agree on extending modding support for Sony’s new system, but Skyrim Special Edition will arrive with modding options on Sony’s console when it ships on October 28.

Bethesda also announced that Skyrim Enhanced Edition will run at native 4K on the PS4 Pro. That’s honestly not very surprising — Skyrim is a PS3-era title and we’ve already seen how developers like Naughty Dog were able to take a late-generation title that was heavily optimized for the PS3 (The Last of Us) and improve visual quality on the original PS4 while simultaneously boosting the frame rate. The PlayStation 4 Pro offers even more firepower than the original PS4, which likely puts 4K in range — especially since the graphics updates Bethesda has showcased appear to focus more on the game’s lighting engine than on upgraded textures or new levels of detail.



Skyrim SE appears to use most, if not all, of Bethesda’s original texture assets, but the new lighting engine is gorgeous.

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