{"id":383126,"date":"2026-11-05T00:28:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T08:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/?p=383126"},"modified":"2026-11-05T00:28:06","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T08:28:06","slug":"bethesda-announces-the-name-of-the-elder-scrolls-vi-and-shows-all-of-the-companys-current-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/bethesda-announces-the-name-of-the-elder-scrolls-vi-and-shows-all-of-the-companys-current-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"Bethesda announces the name of The Elder Scrolls VI and shows all of the company’s current problems"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bethesda has confirmed the rumors about the sixth installment of one of its most popular franchises, The Elder Scrolls. By confirming that it’ll be called Sentinel, they thus reveal one of the company’s biggest unanswered questions in recent years: the name<\/strong>. Because unfortunately, they haven’t done anything else. With a logo and nothing else, they’ve said they hope to be able to share more information in the future. Something that offers no real certainty about a game whose existence we’ve known about for ten years now.<\/p>\n\n

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Because the story of this game is that of a game that doesn’t exist, and it gives the impression that we’re not going to see it anytime soon. And anyone expecting to play it in the next two or three years has a lot of faith in a company that hasn’t given anyone a reason to believe<\/strong>. Because even just sticking to how badly they’ve handled the reveal of the game’s name, you’d already be able to see that something is wrong at Bethesda. But it gets worse once you put everything in context.<\/p>\n\n

A game whose name we’ve known for a year<\/h2>\n\n

Saying the name has been revealed now is correct. Saying we’ve known it until now is not. Because if there’s one thing about The Elder Scrolls VI<\/a>: Sentinel, it’s that the name has been known for almost a year<\/strong>. How is that possible? Through a combination of leaks, CEOs who don’t know how to keep their mouths shut, and conclusions that weren’t too hard for fans to draw.<\/p>\n\n

How is that possible? To begin with, someone on Reddit leaked all the information we know now nine months ago. They said the game’s name would be The Elder Scrolls VI: Sentinel, that the game would be set in Hammerfell and High Rock, a region that appeared in Daggerfall and The Elder Scroll Online, and that the concept could have implications for the main story<\/strong>. That’s literally everything we know about the game.<\/p>\n\n

But journalist Tom Warren also said it on October 29: while covering Microsoft’s wave of layoffs for The Verge, he stated that \u201csources familiar with Bethesda’s plans tell me that the publisher, which is owned by Xbox, is about to announce that the next Elder Scrolls game will officially be called The Elder Scrolls VI: Sentinel. The announcement could come as soon as next month, around 15 years after The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim was released<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n

In fact, the announcement didn’t come even a month later: it came barely a week later. And the name didn’t catch anyone by surprise. Why? Because, according to Warren’s own report for The Verge, Asha Sharma, Xbox’s current CEO, said that The Elder Scrolls VI’s name had eight letters<\/strong>. Given that the game’s codename had been made public as Project Guardian and that Sentinel was a city in Hammerfell, it seemed extraordinarily obvious what the game’s subtitle would be.<\/p>\n\n

A game that’s been getting delayed forever<\/h2>\n\n

The problem is that this announcement makes it clear that it isn’t going to come out soon. To begin with, because Bethesda itself has confirmed that \u201cit’ll still be some time before we can share more.\u201d How long is some time? Well, according to journalist Jason Schreier, a long time. Because as he said in a Bloomberg Q&A session on July 7, 2026, \u201cThe Elder Scroll 6 is at least 2 or 3 years away.\u201d Which means that it won’t be released, at the very least, until 2028 or 2029<\/strong>. All of that assuming it isn’t delayed, considering that Bethesda are famous for running into constant, major delays.<\/p>\n\n

In fact, The Elder Scrolls VI’s own history is one of anguish for fans. The first time plans to make it were announced was in June 2016 by Todd Howard, Bethesda’s director and executive producer. According to now former Bethesda designer Kurt Kuhlman, the game should have come out after Fallout 4<\/a>, which came out in 2015. Instead, Fallout 76<\/a> and Starfield came out, between 2018 and 2023. The reason for not making it? Starfield’s tortuous production process and Howard’s absolute refusal to let anyone direct the game<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n

This is a recurring issue at Bethesda. Todd Howard’s ego. By refusing to let anyone at the studio other than him direct the main games in the franchises, this has led to constant delays and power struggles<\/strong>. For example, leading to an enormous dispute with Obsidian over the tremendous popularity of Fallout: New Vegas<\/a>, which wasn’t produced by Bethesda, much less by Howard.<\/p>\n\n

Hence The Elder Scrolls VI has been getting delayed indefinitely. In October 2018, Matt Firor, producer at ZeniMax Online Studios, Bethesda’s parent company, said that The Elder Scrolls VI would still take a long time to see the light of day, because the priority was Starfield. Howard himself confirmed this in 2021 when he confirmed that the game was in the design phase, and that it would be released 15 to 17 years after The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim<\/strong>. Which came out in 2011.<\/p>\n\n

It’ll come out, but does it make sense?<\/h2>\n\n

Since then, the entire studio has been focused on making The Elder Scrolls VI. Something Todd Howard himself confirmed in an interview for GQ. The problem is something else: the studio is going to take a minimum of 17 years to put out a new game in one of its most popular franchises. Since its other biggest franchise is Fallout and given that they aren’t going to start working on Fallout 5<\/a> until they finish The Elder Scrolls VI: Sentinel, it’s hard to imagine when we’ll see it<\/strong>. Fallout 4 came out in 2015 and its sequel probably won’t come out before 2035. 20 years later.<\/p>\n\n

Fallout is saved by the fact that Obsidian is making a new Fallout. The Elder Scrolls has no such safety net. Sentinel is a name we already knew and we’re certain that there are still, at minimum, two or three years to go. Is Todd Howard’s Bethesda sustainable? It doesn’t seem so. And it doesn’t seem that ZeniMax or Microsoft think so either when they’ve put Obsidian to work on a new Fallout<\/strong>. But at least, it seems like we’ll get Sentinel eventually.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bethesda has confirmed the rumors about the sixth installment of one of its most popular franchises, The Elder Scrolls. By confirming that it’ll be called Sentinel, they thus reveal one of the company’s biggest unanswered questions in recent years: the name. Because unfortunately, they haven’t done anything else. With a logo and nothing else, they’ve … Continue reading “Bethesda announces the name of The Elder Scrolls VI and shows all of the company’s current problems”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9268,"featured_media":383125,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-383126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t