The team at Bethesda Game Studios is excited to announce another new feature making its way into Skyrim… Mounted Combat! Like the recently added Kinect support (360) and new kill cameras, this highly-requested feature that was seen in the Skyrim Game Jam video is arriving for free. In fact, by opting into the latest Steam Beta Update, PC users can check out the feature today. As far as release on other platforms, we’ll let you know when we have more information.

Thanks again to all our fans, we remain committed to supporting the game through our free updates, mod tools, and more. And yes, we’re still working on our first add-on, Dawnguard – some great stuff to show you soon, stay tuned!

Read the current 1.6 release notes below…

Hyvä että uusia ominaisuuksia tulee, mutta tavallaan harmi koska omalta kohdalta pelin pelaaminen on jo jäänyt uudempien pelien tieltä. Noh, kyllä sitä tulee vielä Skyrimiin joskus palattua

Okay, new info about Dawnguard. I've found a lot of new animation entries from DLC in patch 1.6. Key features:

    Animations of crossbows now moved to folder DLC01.
    Mounted combat with crossbows.
    At least one type of crossbows will be unique with unique animation - Dwarven.
    Child Crying.
    New dialogue gestures:
    Defensive Hand;
    Hand on Chin;
    Welcome Hand.
    Coffin Puzzle.
    Reading of the Elder Scroll.
    Animation from the trailer of Dawnguard.
    Scraping tree bark.
    Transformation in a Vampire Lord!
    Vampire Lord's kill moves.
    "Serana holds Vyrthur". Of course Serana and Vyrthur are in-game NPC's (or something like that), but I have not found any mentions of these names in TES Lore.
    Snow Elf Prince ascension burning.
    Pour water in a way shrine.
    Scooping water in a way shrine.

- "Story of dawnguard involves the return of a vampire lord named Harkon,who seeks to put stop to his greatest enemy: The sun."
- You choose sides:fight alongside the dawnguard(vamp hunters) or join harkon,"alot of unique content depending on which side you choose"
- Two new homes,one for each side of the conflict.
- If you choose to side with harkon you can become a 'Vampire Lord',grants you new powers,players can exit vampire lord form at will.
- Vampire lords & werewolves now have their own perk tree.
- Legendary dragons are new high level beasts,Gargoyles,death hounds and armored trolls.

- Crossbows being added
- Some quests will take you into the oblivion realm,specifically 'the soul cairn' the realm of trapped souls
- you can change your face/gender via a character in riften's ratway.
- New shouts like 'soul tear',where you steal the soul of a dead enemy and use it as a minion.