Bethesda rumour mill churns in time for E3
Now a new Elder Scrolls game wouldn't be a surprise. Since Fallout 3's release over 18 months ago Bethesda haven't announced any new projects in development in their own dev studios (just lots of publishing deals with their various partners). You can hardly have expected them to all be sat in their studios updating blogs all day inbetween Madden sessions with Todd. Maybe you can. But lets not forget that ZeniMax, owners of Bethesda, started an MMO division some two years ago and developed quite a talented pool of staff from some major MMO's.
If this is a Bethesda announcement then I'd assume this wouldn't be MMO related and with New Vegas close to launch I doubt they'd try and dent that game's publicity by annoucing another Fallout game so the logical conclusion would be an Elder Scrolls V announcement.
What I'd really love is a dual launch of both the Elder Scrolls V and an Elder Scrolls MMO. Launch ESV and then release [the] MMO a month later following on from the conclusion of ESV. Hook people in to buying both games as each is linked to the other. I understand the taboo that is MMO gaming, but I haven't played a proper MMO in years (I don't count EVE Online) and I for one would welcome an Elder Scrolls MMO so long as it didn't cut in to a single-player Elder Scrolls game launch.
Bethesda have always shrugged off talk of an Elder Scrolls MMO claiming single player games to be their forte and I doubt they'll have changed their focus now, but keep an eye out for that MMO announcement too.
Interesting times. Hopefully in 45 days time we'll have the announcement of the ESV, an Elder Scrolls MMO and England will be lifting the world cup again. I'm not sure which is least likely.
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Well some good and bad news guys, my Fiance's sister's husband was involved with coding for TESIV's construction set. Aparently the Construction set up for V isn't even near half complete. Which means at this time it may end up even getting shelved because bethsedia i focusing ore on the fallout franchise and hunted. Actual game production hasn't even reached the story stage. Even worse is he said there is talk on not even releasing the TES V Construction kit, as they may be doing some outsourcing work with another company. to speed things up,; and for legal reasons including the construction kit won't be profitable. SO TES is either way off in the future, or it will be shelved, and if it does get released say good bye to our modding experience as we know it. ">
Yep "October 19th 2010".
As aside note, the USA will bring home the World Cup, not the UK.
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