However, that's not the only way that Redfall resembles Bethesda proper. Arkane Studios, the ground behind Dishonored and Prey, is working on a new IP called Redfall that appears to be an action-packed vampire hunting extravaganza.Īrkane Studios, like Bethesda, was a property of ZeniMax Media until Microsoft acquired ZeniMax, so Arkane got integrated into Xbox Game Studios at the same time as Bethesda Games Studios. That means the Xbox exclusive Redfall parallels Bethesda and Starfield's transitions into Xbox exclusivity. Although not everything fans were necessarily hoping for was there, as Microsoft didn't have anything new to say about far-flung titles like Fable or Avowed, critical games like Bethesda's new sci-fi IP Starfield were there. Bethesda didn't have much to say about new games, particularly the mysterious and hotly anticipated Elder Scrolls 6, but a Bethesda studio took up the final announcement slot in the Microsoft conference. (They are all part of 1994’s Elder Scrolls Arena, but that didn’t allow for much exploration.Microsoft swung for the fences in its presentation at E3 2021. Here are the nine provinces in the continent of Tamriel, which is where the games are set. And the amount of desert in that territory could make for a markedly different experience to the frost and snow of Skyrim.īoth High Rock and Hammerfell have been visited before in this series, however, which could make them less appealing as a setting. Of the two, we’re leaning slightly toward Hammerfell because it’s home to the Redguards, which could tie in with the name Redfall. We only have a very short trailer to gather details from but the coastline and rocky, broken terrain suggest High Rock or Hammerfell, regions close to Skyrim within the Elder Scrolls world. In other words, this is as close to an official name as we’re going to get for a while. But it’s worth noting that previous Bethesda names have been correctly deduced in exactly this way.īethesda trademarked the name Skyrim well before it was officially announced, and keen eyes spotted the trademark created for Starfield prior to the E3 2018 reveal.

That’s not a certainty, by any means: companies often trademark a wide variety of names and ideas for their IP in order to cover themselves in the future or even to mislead rivals. Picked up by Newsweek, details a patent for a “computer game software for use with computers and video game consoles” filed by Bethesda’s parent company ZeniMax Media that includes the name Redfall.

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