How can Skyrim be coming out this year in a little over ten months no less and we have absolutely no info or a single screen? How often is a game ten months from release with absolutely NOTHING revealed for it?

the GI cover comes out the 6th, and that's the next thing we have to look forward to
then the actual article will be a 14 pager, so really packed with info

14 pages of information/screenshots will appear in GameInformer, soon. We'll get plenty of insight.

For he is the quizats hadarak!

We will get a bunch of information in a few weeks in the GI special. 14 pages of information and screens. The game was just announced not to long ago afterall.

how often does a game have absolutely NOTHING revealed for it with a release ten months away? Especially a mega release such as TES?

14 pages, NICE!

I'm guessing it will mostly be big pictures than actual info but YES! 14 PAGES!

Not often enough.

My ideal would be that one day there would be an announcement from the devs: "Hey people, we made this game. Here's the info, here's the screenshots, and here's the system requirements. Its gone gold. Hope you enjoy it."

After Oblivion, I'm actually thrilled that there wasn't an earlier announcement. They released an early build screenshot. They said it was an early build screenshot. They pointed out that nothing is set in stone until the game goes gold. And the OMG THE DEVS LIED threads started, at least one of which was caused by the early build not-set-in-stone screenshot. People were demanding that they see the E3 demo. Even though it was a demo that had the pc ubered with the console, the enemies nerfed with the console, and the ai ramped up to hyper to show off the whole game in 20 minutes, people assumed that the demo was what the game was going to be.

When the magazine comes out, the information should start being released.

It happens when the company is being deliberately secretive and isn't talking. Most of us have known for 3 years now that Skyrim was where the next game was going to be, but no official confirmation until last month.

How did they guess it was going to be Skyrim exactly?

Most of us? I must have missed something.

Better to receive information closer to the release date, than to receive information that ends up being cut or changed. I get so tired of games companies making promises that they, for various reasons, can't keep.

Just to be clear, the 6th of February or the 6th of january?

I think it was in the recent Bethesday Podcast Todd talked about how it was tough making sure it was kept a secret, but they wanted to make sure no one knew anything for as long as possible.

February issue of Game Informer, on January 6th

Try this thread for more info: http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1153366-the-february-game-informer-cover-thread-ii/

January.

And we had guessed Skyrim because Beth trademarked the name Skyrim as well as the website domain www.skyrim.com. Pretty easy to guess, even though it wasn't officially announced for three years.

The anticipation is almost more than I can bare.

In which case, (being the obsessive Tes fan that I am) will now run around in circles yelling "**** YEAHH!!!"

That's what worrys me....

I really hope they don't show things that they think might get the axe.

alot can be gathered from pictures... wether or not it makes to the final release though is a different thing but being 10 months away and they've been working on this for around 6 years its very likely whatever we see will be final.

:teehee:



I bet that they have learned their lesson for this.

Haven't made it past the first page, so if this was already answered, I apologize.

Anyways, many of us have "suspected"(not actually known for a fact) that TES:V was going to be based in Skyrim due to the fact that Zenimax/Bethesda Softworks copyrighted the name "Skyrim" and several other Skyrim related names. I remember reading that at least 2 years or so ago, might even have been longer.

There have been rumors for quite a while. The name "Skyrim" was trademarked a few years ago. I think they renewed it, or reapplied, or whatever legal things you need to do. You can go to the U.S. Patent and Trademark office and do a search to see what a company names a company has "reserved".

http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=toc&state=4007%3A3m8j58.1.1&p_search=searchss&p_L=50&BackReference=&p_plural=yes&p_s_PARA1=&p_tagrepl~%3A=PARA1%24LD&expr=PARA1+AND+PARA2&p_s_PARA2=Zenimax&p_tagrepl~%3A=PARA2%24OW&p_op_ALL=AND&a_default=search&a_search=Submit+Query&a_search=Submit+Query

Beth tends to be a really tight-knit group and know when to let out info and never have leaks, and it was just announced.