Back in May, Bethesda said it wouldn't have details to share about The Elder Scrolls 6 and Starfield for a couple more years yet. But in a recent interview during the Develop: Brighton online conference, Todd Howard, director and executive at Bethesda Game Studios, did have some information to share about the two upcoming open-world RPGs. And they're particularly interesting tidbits if you've experienced the jank that can make Bethesda's games so charming and infuriating at the same time. According to Howard, Bethesda has been busy rebuilding the engine that will power its next-generation games. "The overhaul on our engine is probably the largest we've ever had, maybe even larger than Morrowind to Oblivion," he told GamesIndustry.biz's James Batchelor.

Here's what we know about The Elder Scrolls 6. No, not the interesting part of the name, the part where it tells us where the new game will be set, just the uninteresting part, the part that tells us it comes after The Elder Scrolls 5 and before The Elder Scrolls 7. And we have essentially one, single image depicting what we assume is the setting for the new game, albeit one in very broad strokes. This is the internet, however, and that image is more than enough to sent Reddit into a speculative whirlwind. Here are some of the absolute earliest guesses about where this game will take place. Here's some work by Reddit user Dunmer, who suspects the game might take in the Redguard home of Hammerfell: Dunmer uses the snow-capped peaks in the distance as an orienting point, guessing that they belong to the Skyrim of The Elder Scrolls 5. We can also see a city there on the coast, as well as a fortress more inland. I'm skeptical about this one, mostly because we've seen Hammerfell in The Elder Scrolls Online and it looked a lot more like a desert than this.

Microsoft has showcased the line-up for its Xbox One console and Windows platform in 2018 and 2019, announcing new Halo and Gears of War games in a press conference in Los Angeles on Sunday that covered 50 games in total. Game publisher Bethesda also announced fantasy role-playing game The Elder Scrolls 6 and shooter Doom Eternal in its own announcement, and spoke in more detail about the highly anticipated Fallout 76, a role-playing game set in the immediate aftermath of a nuclear war. Microsoft kicked off with a new game in the long-running and beloved science-fiction shooter series Halo, called Halo Infinite. Three new Gears of War games also made an appearance: one on mobile (Gears Pop!), one for PC (Gears Tactics), and one for Xbox One (Gears 5), starring returning character Kait Diaz. Forza Horizon 4, meanwhile, is a new racing game that's played in an online world where every driver you meet is another human being.

This was one of those longshot announcements, one of those things you hoped to hear but never think the company is ever actually going to make. But Bethesda did it tonight and actually confirmed it: The Elder Scrolls 6 is on its way. We didn't see much, just the title. But for many, the title is enough. The Elder Scrolls 6 is on its way. We don't yet have a release date or really anything else, but it's a big deal nonetheless.

You've got to feel for Bethesda Game Studios. It's a big developer that's only growing, with a clear ambition to make new, interesting experiences both in the genres and worlds that have defined it in the past and outside of them. It's got plans for the future that we're going to start seeing more of this year at E3. And yet fans are basically here shouting "Freebird!" Such is the way when you're in the studio that makes Elder Scrolls games.

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