This is not a drill: The Elder Scrolls VI is officially in development, and Bethesda shared the first trailer for the game at E3 2018.
While we really wish that we had more information to share with you regarding the finer details of this game, we tragically do not. See, Bethesda’s Pete Hines remarked that this isn’t a game that is going to come out this year or even the next year. Instead, it’s a title that they are working on that is somewhere on the horizon.
However, that’s really not the important detail of this story. What really matters is that Bethesda is, right now, working on a new Elder Scrolls game. Not Skyrim, not a Skyrim sequel, not a Skyrim spin-off, but a game that is actually being called The Elder Scrolls VI. At present, we have no reason to believe that this is not a proper single-player epic Elder Scrolls adventure in the style of classic Elder Scrolls experiences.
If you’re really reaching for more information, you can try to figure out where the game will take place based on the teaser footage that we saw in the trailer. However, we have a feeling that nothing about that footage is anywhere close to being finalised. However, it does seem like we’re leaving the snow-covered world of Skyrim for a more diverse climate that somewhat resembles the world seen in Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion.
Truth be told, none of us should be surprised that Bethesda is working on a new Elder Scrolls game. After all, they’ve told us as much in the past. Todd Howard even told us that his own son is hounding him for details regarding the next Elder Scrolls game. There’s no doubt that someone at Bethesda is working on a new Elder Scrolls title.
Still, the fact that Bethesda was confident enough to show this game off this year would seem to suggest that they might actually show footage of the game as early as next year’s E3 conference. Given that we didn’t know if we would see a new Elder Scrolls title anytime in the next five years, this is welcome news indeed.
More as we get it.