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At the moment there's only one Bethesda Softworks game that's currently available on Steam and that's Fallout 3. However, thanks to a inadvertent leak from Steam's news service it appears that three more games from the small but powerful publisher will soon appear on the download service.

The page lists Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind and Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion, the two acclaimed open world fantasy RPG titles that Bethesda created before Fallout 3. In addition Steam will also make available Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth, the first person horror action-adventure game from the now defunct developer Headfirst. Whenever the games are posted on Steam they will apparently be made available for a 20 percent discount for a limited time.

[Via Gamer Limit]

While fans of the Elder Scrolls game franchise wait for news of any new games in the series publisher Bethesda Softworks is giving them something else to nibble on. The company announced it has signed a deal with Del Rey Books to publish two novels set in the Elder Scrolls universe with the first to be release sometime this fall.

Novelist Greg Keyes gets the gig to write the novels and the first book, The Infernal City, is set after the events in Bethesda's last game in the series, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. The plot has a floating city killing people in the game's world merely by its shadow across the land. To make matters worse, those dead folks rise again. Yep, this book has zombies in it. Who can stop this threat? According to the press release the only hope lies with "a seventeen-year-old girl named Annaig and the Emperor's young son, Prince Attrebus." Ohkay . . . .

While Bethesda Softworks is still releasing downloadable expansions for its latest game Fallout 3, it's looking like they are also working on . . . something . . . for their last major game, the fantasy RPG Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. While that game was released over three years ago, Bethesda Softworks's PR head Pete Hines tells Gamasutra that the title " . . . . is still selling and retailers still like it."

Hines states that because of that sales support, "We're getting ready to do something else with Oblivion this year." He added that it makes sense to continue to support a game that's popular even though it 's been a while since its inital release. He says, 'If you pay attention to it and keep taking care of it, it's still got a home, it can still do something." He declined to say what that "something" might be.

Bethesda Softworks has just released their latest in-house title, the open world RPG Fallout 3 but is another Elder Scrolls game in the works? According to Gamesindustry.biz, Bethsoft publishing exec Paul Oughton is quoted as saying, "...potentially there's a new Elder Scrolls title in 2010." The last game in the series, Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, was released in spring 2006.

Oughton doesn't go into more detail than that. Some have speculated that Bethesda Softworks' sister company, the MMO developer ZeniMax Online, is working on an Elder Scrolls MMO but so far no info on the title has been released. Oughton does say they are planning to release, "...three or four titles a year and go for big titles." The publisher still shows the long delayed shooter Rogue Warrior on its list of upcoming games and recently signed a deal with Splash Damage to publisher their next unnamed game.

Have you ever heard of the adventure game Limbo of the Lost? Neither had we, until Wednesday when a gaming web site noted while checking out a build of the game that some of its assets may have been lifted completely from Bethesda Softworks' Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. Now Blue's News is reporting that the publisher of the game, TriSynergy, is claiming that it had no idea the game had this kind of issue until it was pointed out in the gaming press.

TriSynergy claims that it would have never have released the game had it known of these issues (it's available for purchase online and in selected retail outlets) and are contacting the developers at Majestic Studios to get more info. As we have noted before, this development team's web site is actually hosted by, of all places, Geocities, and is now currently offline (most likely due to the high amount of traffic it has received since this contraversy broke out). It should also be noted that this game has reportedly been in development longer than Duke Nukem Forever; according to an article at Just Adventure it was supposedly started in the 1990s as an Amiga game. With that kind of development time you would think they would have had plenty of time to make their own art assets.