elder-scrolls-mmo posts

It's not a secret that Zenimax Media, the parent company of Bethesda Softworks, has been working on some kind of MMO project since late 2006 when it first announced their plans to open Zenimax Online Studios. Details about the MMO have been kept close to their vest ever since. Now it appears that Zenimax wants to keep a few details of their MMO project out of their current court fight with Interplay concerning the Fallout IP rights.

Fallout fan site Duck and Cover claims through unnamed sources that Zenimax has indeed tried to keep info about the MMO game out of the court documents "so their competitors can't find out about it." However it sounds like the info they want to keep quiet is pretty basic stuff. They claims the info shows that Zenimax has been working on the game since 2007 (duh), and that the company has spent "tens and tens of millions of dollars" on development (standard for a AAA MMO title). The info also says it is employing "close to a hundred people" to work on the game (again, standard for a AAA MMO title). Some have said the game is an Elder Scrolls-based MMO which again has been speculated on before.

So in other words we are no closer to finding out details on the game that we were before. Nothing to see here..move along.

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.