In news that won’t shock anyone, it’s still going to a hell of a long wait before The Elder Scrolls 6: Mission to Moscow makes an appearance. Bethesda has said in the past that it’s all hands on deck for Starfield right now. And then presumably more hands will be required for fixing all the post-launch bugs. Once that’s all done, it’ll be time to focus properly on The Elder Scrolls 6, but until that day arrives here’s something else to tide you over and make tinfoil hat fashionable again: A tease of what’s next.

I’ve got a feeling that when the Xbox Series X kicks off a new generation of gaming next month, that it’ll be an investment in a system that will become the default home to western RPGs. Not content to just have Outer Worlds developer Obsidian locked in as an exclusive game-development studio, Microsoft recently dropped a staggering $7.5 billion on …

Almost eight years have passed since Bethesda released the fifth game in the series, Skyrim, and it’s starting to sound like that wait is going to be excruciatingly long for chapter number six.

What could have been a massive delay for The Elder Scrolls 6 is now a non-issue as the trademark dispute is over. In a short statement, Zenimax and BookBreeze revealed that a deal had been worked out, presumably for a whole heap of Drake coins.

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What was meant as a 24-hour special turned into an extended deal because of the most Bethesda reason possible.

Officially revealed for several seconds last year at Bethesda’s E3 conference, The Elder Scrolls 6: Check out these Thu’umnails probably won’t see the light of a full release in 2019. Or 2020 even, as the best-case scenario for Bethesda’s big-budget RPG could be 2021 thanks to some ongoing litigation.

ESO remains a hodge-podge of great and terrible things about The Elder Scrolls as a franchise. Its Summerset expansion brings a relatively interesting new locale and suite of abilities, quests and group activities but improves little on the technical side. Its world can envelop for brief periods, but there is usually some hiccup lurking just around the corner to ruin your time.