With mods eventually coming as a central feature to past Bethesda titles like Fallout 4 and Skyrim, the concept is looking very promising for both PC and console platforms. (They are all part of 1994’s Elder Scrolls Arena, but that didn’t allow for much exploration.Starfield’s biggest potential feature is in the game’s mod integration. 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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