Bethesda Softworks - Elder Scrolls 6 Confirmed

One of the most (or least?) surprising announcements from this year's E3 is that Todd Howard has confirmed that an Elder Scrolls 6 is in the works.  It's likely to be in the fairly distant future.

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On YouTube's Live at E3 stream, the head of Bethesda Game Studios reconfirmed that Bethesda is working on three new projects, but we now know that Elder Scrolls 6 is one of them, and likely the last:

"[Elder Scrolls 6 is] kind of like the elephant in the room, always, when we talk about anything," Howard explained, "and you know, I think it's good in these moments to tell our fans yes, of course we are [working on it] - it's something we love - but it is... you know, I have to be careful what I say, it's a very long way off.

"I could sit here and explain the game to you, and you would say, 'That sounds like you don't even have the technology. How long is that going to take?' So it is something that's going to take a lot of time, what he have in mind for that game, and we actually have two other large projects we're also doing that are bigger than everything we've done. People will probably hear about those even before Elder Scrolls 6. That'll make sense many years from now.

"We think very long term. We're not a developer that's going to rush something like this out," he continued. "When you think about what is the future of that kind of game, we have a pretty good idea of what that's going to be, and it's just going to take technology and time we don't necessarily have right now."

When asked what the other two projects might be, Howard was cagey, but invoked Fallout 4's notably short time between announcement and release:

"I don't want to say yet, but people should know by now that the gap between hearing about it and it coming out, I like that to be really short. They're all a ways off, and we'll talk about it when we talk about it."

At last night's Bethesda Showcase event, Howard confirmed that an Elder Scrolls 5 remaster, titled Skyrim Special Edition, will be coming to Xbox One, PS4 and PC on October 28. The game will be free for PC owners who already own the original game and all its DLC.