The Elder Scrolls 6: Absolutely everything about Bethesda’s new video game – Release Date, Location? News, Rumours & more!

Not only is Bethesda working on a brand new game Starfield, but the developer are continuing to work on The Elder Scrolls 6, as well as taking on the massive commitment of Fallout 76 – and that’s only mentioning it’s main RPG franchises!

We hadn’t heard much about The Elder Scrolls 6 until the announcement trailer dropped at E3 2018, and rumours immediately started spreading about when the latest Elder Scrolls would be released, and where it would be set.

We’ve gathered all the news and rumours regarding The Elder Scrolls sequel and will be updating this master article whenever there’s new info!

EPIC – We still have some time before we can get our hands on the game

Release date

When asked about Elder Scrolls 6 and Starfield at a PAX East Panel in March, Bethesda’s director and executive producer Todd Howard said that the highly anticipated titles were, “going to be a long time”, and that he wouldn’t be talking about “either of those games” at E3 2019.

Based on this quote, I wouldn’t expect to be playing The Elder Scrolls 6 any time soon. We don’t have a full title for the game, a year in which it will be released or what consoles the game will be playable on!

However, confirmation from Bethesda that they will be renewing the series is good enough news – for now.

Where will it be set?

In an interview with Eurogamer, Todd Howard confirmed that the team had settled on the location – but he wouldn’t give anything away.

We’re willing to bet that, just like the rest of the titles in the series, Elder Scrolls 6 is going to be set in the continent of Tamriel (the map of which is above).

In previous games we have been taken to Highrock, Hammerfell, Morrowind, Cyrodil, and Skyrim. That leaves Valenwood, Elsweyr and Black Marsh as the biggest places left to explore.

So that leaves Valenwood, Elsweyr and Black Marsh as the potential locations, but which seems most likely? Online rumours are heavily pointing towards Black Marsh, the home of the reptilian Argonian race.

There isn’t actually any evidence to back this rumour, but the region’s swampy marshlands and network of islands would make for an interesting geographic shape up.

That said, Elsweyr would also make an interesting location change, with its dry plains and harsh ‘badlands’ that the Khajit have made their homes in.

There is, however, some weight to the rumour that Elder Scrolls 6 could be set in Valenwood (the home of the Bosmer) as it’s an area of Tamriel that Bethesda haven’t explored much.

The rumor’s based on an internal Bethesda memo leaked way back in 2014. In this memo, Bethesda employees were warned against using the terms ‘Fallout: Nuka World’, ‘Elder Scrolls VI’ or ‘Project Greenheart’.

Fallout 4 players may well reconigse the term ‘Fallout: Nuka World’ as it ended up becoming a huge DLC release for Bethesda’s last main Fallout game. With Tamriel nerds knowing that ‘Greenheart’ is actually a city in the region of Valenwood, this could all but confirm the that the next game is set there.

E3 2018 Teaser Trailer

It’s hard to take much from the short E3 clip released for the game, but on first impression the background scenery looks a lot more like Valenwood or Elsweyr than Black Marsh.

News and rumours

Storytelling

In an interview with Gamespot, Todd Howard said that Bethesda was looking into how the video game publisher tells stories in its games.

With Skyrim leaving things more to the player’s vision, and Fallout guiding the player through a more rigid story, the studio are looking to “tell a better story in an open world” by creating a balance between the two styles.

Building

Skyrim introduced the idea of building and maintaining a homestead with the Hearthfire DLC, which we hope will be improved on in the next Elder Scrolls title.

Building is also a key element of the Fallout series – as Bethesda have all the processes in place to implement this in-game there shouldn’t be any reason why building could be a really impressive feature of Elder Scrolls VI!

This feature would fit in particularly well with the alleged Valenwood setting, as it could see players adapting to the wilderness in imaginative ways.

VR

The fact that Bethesda released a full VR experience for Skyrim means that we could see the same experience return for Elder Scrolls VI.

VR – We need this as a staple feature on the new game!

What else would we like to see?

The remastered edition of Skyrim showed the gaming community how far things have come, visually, since the game was first released.

For this reason, we expect any title that follows to be of that standard, if not much better – but that all depends on when the game will launch.

We also expect to see a brand new game engine, as Bethesda designed a brand new one for Skyrim back in 2011. Expect any game in the Fallout sequel to receive the same treatment.

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