Similarly to Rockstar, Bethesda Softworks is a firm believer in glacial video game development.

The studio, most famous for its genre-defining Elder Scrolls series, has yet to revisit the world of Nirn since the franchise’s fifth installment, Skyrim, arrived over nine years ago. A sixth entry has, of course, already been confirmed to exist in one form or another, though it likely won’t be until the release of all-new sci-fi IP Starfield that full scale production will begin. That being the case, adorers of the high fantasy RPG still have an excruciating wait to struggle through before they’ll be able to embark on new adventures in the land of Tamriel, and it goes without saying that impatience has well and truly taken root, with no end in sight to the drought.

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