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Gaming News Yesterday, 02:02 PM
Josef Rudberg has demonstrated a Skyrim mod module for Community Shaders that aims to make snowy ground react to the player, turning what was once a static surface into something that can be altered in real time.
Instead of simple flat texture changes, the snow leaves real footprints and trampled trails behind the character. During snowfall, those marks are gradually covered again and can disappear over time, which makes the effect feel more alive than a static visual filter. -
Gaming News Yesterday, 01:29 PM
Bethesda Game Studios announced that it is urging Fallout 4 mod authors to back up their load orders ahead of a patch arriving on Tuesday, August 18, 2026, and said a new update for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is also in development. The studio says the Fallout 4 patch is focused on general Creations improvements, while mods may be affected by conflicts and broken load orders. -
Gaming News August 13, 2026, 02:55 AM
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma posted a tease that appeared to censor The Elder Scrolls VI with eight asterisks, after saying she had seen a live playthrough of the game. Fans quickly latched onto that detail and began guessing that Sentinel could be the subtitle. -
Gaming News August 12, 2026, 01:36 PM
Bethesda Game Studios says it is already looking at bringing some of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered's Switch 2-specific optimizations to other platforms, after early comparisons of the Nintendo version drew attention for another reason. The game launched on Switch 2 on August 11, 2026, and the studio shared the update on X. -
Xbox's CEO was brought in to see The Elder Scrolls VI — and got greeted outside Bethesda's office by a giant rat and 800 red flags
Gaming News August 12, 2026, 10:56 AM
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma visited Bethesda's office in Rockville, Maryland, on August 11. The visit had all the trappings of a showcase: she was shown a live playthrough of The Elder Scrolls 6, after which Sharma publicly praised the game's scale and story. Studio employees prepared for leadership's arrival in their own way — they inflated a giant rat outside the building's entrance and planted eight hundred red flags on the lawn. Each flag represented one person who had lost their job since July 2025. -
Gaming News August 11, 2026, 04:19 PM
To mark The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered's arrival on Nintendo Switch 2 on August 11, Bethesda shared a story from the original game's testing days about a quest that ended up resolving itself without direct player input. Dan Lee, then a playtester, was experimenting with NPC hunger behavior at the time. -
Gaming News August 11, 2026, 01:14 PM
The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered released on Nintendo Switch 2 on August 11, 2026, and Bethesda is drawing a firm line around what the game is. Dan Lee, associate art director at Bethesda, said the visuals were heavily rebuilt, but the core of the project is still the original Oblivion. -
Gaming News August 10, 2026, 04:50 PM
Nate Purkeypile, a former Bethesda senior artist, said his view on Starfield changed after playing the release version and repeatedly running into the same locations. He said the RPG's galaxy felt too assembled from recycled pieces, and that a smaller number of hand-crafted worlds would have suited it better than more than 1,000 planets. -
Gaming News August 10, 2026, 01:36 PM
Bethesda Game Studios teased new Fallout 76 content that Jon Rush says will be shown very soon. The studio's creative director called it "dark content," but for now that is all Bethesda is willing to say about the update. -
Gaming News August 2, 2026, 04:43 PM
Mick Gordon will finally bring DOOM music to the stage next year, headlining Radar Festival in the UK with a full band, a symphonic orchestra, and his Doom Machine. The set is expected to include Rip & Tear, BFG Division, and The Only Thing They Fear Is You, drawn from DOOM Eternal. -
Gaming News July 31, 2026, 03:58 PM
A LinkedIn profile from Griffin DeClaire has prompted speculation about what Bethesda Game Studios is building behind the scenes, with his listed work on an "Unreleased Elder Scrolls title" on LinkedIn suggesting more than The Elder Scrolls VI. DeClaire's profile says he worked at Bethesda from April 2024 to July 2026, and his responsibilities included quest design, internal lore documentation, and project design material for the unnamed project. -
Gaming News July 31, 2026, 01:46 AM
Bethesda marked its 40th anniversary on July 30 with a new company logo, and the publisher says the redesign draws on its early branding. It is the first time Bethesda has changed its logo in 16 years. -
Gaming News July 23, 2026, 01:41 PM
With The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered still struggling on PC and consoles, Bethesda says the fixes being developed for the Nintendo Switch 2 version could also be brought back to the existing releases. The Steam page is already live, and the game originally launched on April 22, 2025 for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S. -
Gaming News July 22, 2026, 08:28 PM
Former Bethesda employee Alex Jones says he helped support an unannounced shooter that Bethesda Softworks has reportedly canceled, adding another clue to the project's ties to MachineGames. In his LinkedIn profile, Jones listed production support, scheduling, and cross-team coordination work on the game. -
Gaming News July 22, 2026, 11:02 AM
0xBobby's Seamless Planet Takeoffs SFSE (Beta) for Starfield keeps players in the cockpit during liftoff instead of cutting to a loading screen, giving the game a long-awaited step toward the seamless travel many fans wanted.
Instead of cutting away, the mod keeps you in the ship cockpit during takeoff, so you can watch the planet's atmosphere fade into the void as the ship climbs. In practice, that means the transition feels far less abrupt than the standard version of Starfield. -
Gaming News July 18, 2026, 10:40 PM
Fans are again speculating that Fallout 3 Remastered could arrive in 2027, after Bethesda confirmed that a Fallout 76 expansion planned for that year will serve as a prequel story to Fallout 3. The theory is based on the idea that the two projects may be timed together, even though Bethesda has not announced a release date for the remaster. -
Fallout: New Vegas's creators are making Fallout again after 16 years — but one thing is getting in the way of celebrating
Gaming News July 18, 2026, 12:05 AM
Fans had been asking for this since 2010 — and it's finally happening. Bethesda has officially confirmed that Obsidian Entertainment, the studio behind the cult classic Fallout: New Vegas, is returning to the post-apocalyptic universe. It's a new spin-off being made in collaboration with Bethesda; details haven't been shared yet, with more promised later. Todd Howard announced this as part of a major reveal where the studio also unveiled several new projects set in the franchise. -
Gaming News July 17, 2026, 08:33 PM
Bethesda Game Studios says The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is still drawing players 15 years after launch, and the studio used the milestone to place the RPG among gaming's all-time best sellers. Bethesda said the game has now reached 65 million copies sold, tying it with The Witcher 3. -
Gaming News July 17, 2026, 06:53 PM
Bethesda Game Studios confirmed that Fallout 76 will get a major expansion called Raven Rock in 2027, expanding the online game with a new story that ties into Fallout 3. The studio says the add-on will be housed entirely inside Fallout 76. -
Gaming News July 17, 2026, 06:39 PM
Bethesda Game Studios said that The Elder Scrolls 6 is now its primary development focus, with the majority of the team working on the next chapter of the franchise. The studio made the statement in a new note, while the game remains unreleased and still has no release date or trailer.
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