There are no current plans to make Elder Scrolls V, said Bethesda Softworks' Todd Howard.
Speaking at id Software's QuakeCon 2009 last week, the game director said, "We are working on our next big game, but we are not talking about it."
The follow-up to 2006's blockbuster role-playing game Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion isn't coming anytime soon (even though we were supposed to get it in 2010), but perhaps the "big game" he's talking about is a massively multiplayer online experience of the Elder Scrolls franchise instead. Speaking about the rumored Elder Scrolls MMO, he added, jokingly, "There's always a chance."
But it may just be more than that. The super sleuth at Tumblr blog superannuation (the same one who discovered Blizzard's trademarking of "cataclysm"), discovered several web domains with the nameserver of Bethesda parent company Zenimax as their host. Web domains such as elderscrollsmmo.com and elderscrollsonline.com, for instance.
This doesn't confirm the game's existence, but time will tell whether these domains will ever come to use.
Do you prefer* Elder Scrolls* as a single-player experience, or a massively multiplayer one?
__Update: __Though we didn't think that there wouldn't be another Elder Scrolls game, on Monday, Bethesda's Pete Hines issued a statement on the Bethesda blog clarifying that the company is committed to the series, and it's just a matter of when the next title will come out. Hines also noted that Howard and his team don't work on MMOs, but the company's other division, ZeniMax Online Studios, is working on an unannounced MMO title.
Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Image courtesy Elderscrolls.com
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