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The Latest Breaking News from Todd Howard

The Godhead must have woken up: Eight years ago, Bethesda teased Elder Scrolls 6—and never mentioned it again

The game that never was.

Destructoid

Happy Anniversary, Elder Scrolls 6 Trailer: Fans celebrate eight years of absolutely nothing

E3 is no more, but its legacy lives on.

Dot Esports

Bethesda Just Announced a New Fully Voiced Fallout 4 DLC but It's Locked Behind a Paywall

Bethesda's new Fallout 4 DLC, 'Buzzard's Bounties,' has sparked mixed reactions due to its cost and content, with some fans praising the modding community while others criticise the price.

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Eight Years After Its First Reveal, What's Happening With 'The Elder Scrolls 6'?

"The Elder Scrolls 6" update reveals active development, possible Hammerfell clues, Creation Engine 3 upgrades, and Bethesda's RPG plans.

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Capcom did not expect people to like the first Pragmata trailer so much, and like Todd Howard wincing at The Elder Scrolls 6, kind of regretted announcing it so early

But "that helped boost the spirits of the dev team"

GamesRadar

14 years ago we published our Elder Scrolls 6 wishlist, and honestly? It still holds up

Waiting on a hero (named Todd Howard).

PC Gamer

Skyrim becomes playable in Fallout 4 thanks to one genius modder who "beat" Todd Howard to it by sticking the whole RPG on a Pip-Boy

"This is what 15 years without a sequel does to a fanbase," one fan says

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Todd Howard seemed "a bit of a fanboy" for Naughty Dog's Neil Druckmann, former Last of Us and Starfield artist says

Howard wanted to know about Naughty Dog's MO

GamesRadar

Fallout 5 rumored setting New Orleans was originally discussed at New Vegas studio Obsidian, and veteran dev still believes "there's a lot of potential there"

Fallout New Orleans rolls off the tongue, doesn't it?

GamesRadar

If you can't get enough Troy Baker in your videogames, here's the good news: he's going to start making them

Wonder if they'll star Troy Baker?

PC Gamer

This Elder Scrolls-like RPG gets better and better: It's got Morrowind's weirdness, Skyrim's NPC schedules, and it'll cost "$20 max"

Importantly, "we use no AI in development at all"

GamesRadar

"We have ideas that we want to get out there": Bethesda's Todd Howard says Xbox's Starfield and Fallout 76 were "creatively different" by design, for better or worse

Bethesda's Todd Howard says Fallout 76 and Starfield were different than its usual RPGs by design, as the devs "have ideas that we want to get out there."

Windows Central

Todd Howard agrees Starfield is "creatively different" than Bethesda's usual RPGs – but says The Elder Scrolls and Fallout were also divisive early on

"And then, you find an audience that loves that"

GamesRadar

"Elder Scrolls 6 is taking so long that we're just making our own," declare RPG devs taunting Todd Howard and wearing the skin of Morrowind like a jacket

"Everyone's making a Soulslike. We're making a Scrolls-like"

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Todd Howard says Starfield's NG+ was misunderstood and defends Bethesda's new U-turn on how it works: 'You can tell us if we're done our job right'

"We want to be trying to do more things that update the game where it's going to change the next 100 hours."

GamesRadar

Skyrim lead says Bethesda is "going to feel it" when Todd Howard leaves because he's always touched everything during the development process

"He's struggled throughout his entire career in this letting go process"

GamesRadar

Todd Howard says that Starfield's New Game Plus was "us asking you this weird, deep question that I actually think got lost on a lot of people"

If you've been concerned with going through the Unity in the past, Bethesda says now is the time to go back in to give it a try

PC Gamer

Pete Hines says he left Bethesda because he didn't want to watch it being 'damaged' and 'abused'

Hines, Bethesda's former vice president of marketing and PR, left Bethesda in 2023, three years after it was acquired by Microsoft.

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Bethesda king Todd Howard isn't a master of game design or programming, says Pete Hines, "but there is nobody that is better" at combining them: "Look around the industry. Who else?"

Thanks, I think?

GamesRadar

"Go try that s*** in Red Dead Redemption 2": Nobody makes games like Bethesda, says studio veteran Pete Hines, so "put some respect" on Todd Howard and the Creation Engine team

"Who else out in the world allows you to just stack up one quest after another on the fly"

PC Gamer

Former Bethesda artist says 'every single developer' has already brought up 95% of the complaints that made it to launch, but as Todd Howard told him, 'we can't do everything'

You can't win 'em all.

GamesRadar

Bethesda was so indie when the Elder Scrolls launched that the devs packaged and shipped the RPG themselves: "We were in the loading dock and we learned how to assemble boxes, inserts and use the heat gun"

"We even spent time shrink-wrapping the games ourselves"

GamesRadar

Skyrim and Fallout artist says Todd Howard would tell devs "we can do anything but we can't do everything," and 95% of player-reported issues were flagged internally before launch

"We play and see the same things that the gamers do"

Windows Central

Ex-Bethesda dev on Fallout and Skyrim says Todd Howard has too many yes men around him — "A lot of people were afraid to say no to Todd, and I think that hurt him"

An ex-Fallout and Skyrim developer says Bethesda's Todd Howard might not be getting the best feedback from his teams, as they're "afraid to say no to Todd."

GamesRadar

Skyrim and Fallout 4 artist says Bethesda's Todd Howard has too many yes men: "A lot of people were afraid to say no to Todd and that hurt him"

"He's a phenomenal person, and is he perfect? No"

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