By Alex Calvin, Tuesday, January 5, 2021 17:11 GMT
But it’s probably The Elder Scrolls Online, who knows.
Gaming giant Bethesda is causing something The Elder Scrolls-related.
In a post on the series’s Twitter account on December 31, the company tweeted the image of a map with the caption “Transcribe the past and map the future”. This could, of course, just be a message wishing your fans a Happy New Year, but there is also fan speculation about what it could mean.
As seen by Rock Paper Shotgun, the map in question is from the Skyrim region and features three lights. One is for the caption “Province of Skyrim” for the map – also in the unmapped area of Hammerfell – while another is for the location of Solitude, the capital of Skyrim. The final light is for a stack of coins, which apparently appeared in a collector’s edition of the 2020 Greymoor expansion for … The Elder Scrolls Online.
Honestly, who knows. There are probably bigger things to worry about now, like a global pandemic, the fact that we are literally cooking the planet or the absurd and growing disparity between rich and poor.
Anyway.
Perhaps this is not the teaser for The Elder Scrolls 6 that many expected. That title was announced at E3 2018, but Bethesda said it will be some time before we hear a lot about this new project.
The head of the company, Todd Howard, said he made great technical leaps in his Creation Engine for The Elder Scrolls 6 and Starfield.
Meanwhile, Bethesda has been teasing the next chapter of her Online Elder Scrolls MMO, which appears to be set in Oblivion.
Microsoft announced in September 2020 that it would buy Bethesda for $ 7.5 billion.