Bethesda has been pretty busy as of late. September 2023 saw Bethesda Game Studios release its first new IP in decades with Starfield, and the developer has been hard at work releasing post-launch patches, updates, and expansions for it ever since. On top of its development of Starfield, Bethesda has also published a number of games in the last few years, such as Deathloop, Hi-Fi Rush, Redfall, and the recently released Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. But while Bethesda already has its hands full, it’d still be nice to see more from The Elder Scrolls.
While Skyrim has gotten countless ports over the years and The Elder Scrolls Online is still receiving consistent updates and expansions, with the latest arriving back in June, a new mainline Elder Scrolls game hasn’t been seen in over a decade. But that could be about to change. Some recent rumors have surfaced suggesting that Bethesda could be getting ready to announce some Elder Scrolls news, and the publisher has the perfect blueprint to both start and end 2025 with a bang.
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An Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remaster Could Start The Year With a Bang
All the way back in September 2023, a handful of confidential documents from the Microsoft FTC court case were leaked. One of these documents claimed that, at one time, remasters of both Fallout 3 and The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion were in development. While these remasters were written off by the general gaming public as presumably canceled projects that never saw the light of day, some fans held out hope that they’d see them come to fruition at some point.
Those fans might be about to get their wish. According to Windows Central’s Jez Corden, an Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion remaster is not only real, but it’s also set to be announced in just a few weeks. Though Microsoft hasn’t confirmed it yet, it’s been heavily rumored that another Xbox Developer Direct will take place in January 2025, just as it has the last two years. Corden believes the Oblivion remaster will be revealed during this event.
An Elder Scrolls 6 Trailer Could End The Year With a Win
While an Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion remaster announcement during the unconfirmed Xbox Developer Direct in January would kick off Bethesda’s year in a major way, the publisher shouldn’t stop there. The Elder Scrolls 6 has been one of the most anticipated games for years, and it’s about time Bethesda revealed a bit more about the game.
Announced all the way back in 2018, The Elder Scrolls 6‘s reveal grows more infamous by the day, with even Bethesda’s Todd Howard admitting that he probably would have “announced it more casually” if he was given the chance to go back. In 2021, Howard confirmed that The Elder Scrolls 6 was in the design phase. In August 2023, Bethesda’s Pete Hines stated it was in full development. And in March, Bethesda mentioned that early builds of the long-awaited sequel were being played internally.
Though The Elder Scrolls 6 is still probably at least a year or two away from hitting store shelves at the minimum, it would be great to see a new trailer for the game this year, perhaps finally confirming its chosen setting.
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2026-00-00
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Bethesda Softworks
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