[Valerie Marie]

It's like all the sports games, like NFL 2011. For some reason, everyone loves doing that kind of stuff.

[Brian LeHury]

Why does everyone think TESV is going to be the cover, fo all we know i could be a little one page preview. Even so i'll still jizz in my pants at news

[Austin Suggs]

I am a big TESIII and IV fan, and have been anxiously waiting for an announcement for TESV. I'm not sure if this has been mentioned yet, but if GI mag doesn't include any ES info, what about QuakeCon? I am not sure how reliable uesp.net is, I do visit that site often for game information, but it stated that "Pete Hines ... did, however, suggest that an announcement was more likely at QuakeCon, which is happening from August 12-15 in Dallas." Source (uesp.net).

As much as I would love to hear something about TESV sometime next week, it seems that it is more probable that something would be announced in August.

[Carlitos Avila]

Why does everyone think TESV is going to be the cover, fo all we know i could be a little one page preview. Even so i'll still jizz in my pants at news

Because according to Andy McNamara (editor-in-chief of GI), the August cover will "be a fantasy sequel not shown at E3 that will make fantasy nuts crap themselves'. That's why we're so insanely excited.

[Sophie Louise Edge]

"be a fantasy sequel not shown at E3 that will make fantasy nuts crap themselves"

See I told you Gothic 4 was overhyped. JoWood games are the buggiest crappiest games I've ever played.

[Kortknee Bell]

If it's not TESV I might poop myself out of pure rage...

"I'm so mad!!! I could just --- *PBTTTHTHK"

[xemmybx]

Seem's a bit odd. I used to read a magazine when I lived in the uk called PCZone, and each month at the back would have a short preview of the next month's issue, which always seemed to be 2/3 days earlier to being released than the previous months issue. The magazine ended up being 2/3 months out of whack. Got a bit silly. Anyway, back on track...

Ahhhh. That USED to be a good magazine!! Did you read the early issues with Charlie Brooker, Dave McCandless etc.....?

[Talitha Kukk]

Charlie Brooker is a living legend. It was pretty terrible last time I checked.... oh the days of a decent gaming mag for ￡1.99 with a demo cd.

[Emmanuel Morales]

Charlie Brooker is a living legend. It was pretty terrible last time I checked.... oh the days of a decent gaming mag for ￡1.99 with a demo cd.

Demo CD??????? You can't beat the demo 3.5" floppy days!!!!!!!!

[Avril Louise]

This is the absolute LONGEST week of my life.

[tegan fiamengo]

If you think about it, if Bethesda ARE working on a new Elder Scrolls then they have done one HELL of a job keeping it quiet! Imagine all the people who have left the company over the development time or the developers going home of an evening and discussing their day with their wives, who then do the school drop off the next day and talk to other wives who then talk to their gaming husbands etc........ All this risk and we know NOTHING!!!

[BRIANNA]

If you think about it, if Bethesda ARE working on a new Elder Scrolls then they have done one HELL of a job keeping it quiet! Imagine all the people who have left the company over the development time or the developers going home of an evening and discussing their day with their wives, who then do the school drop off the next day and talk to other wives who then talk to their gaming husbands etc........ All this risk and we know NOTHING!!!

That was the case with Oblivion and Morrowind, aye?

I doubt anything leaked from those before their announcement. Besides, other than some certain losing-job ramifications, working for a company like Bethesda is a dream job that I actually hope to have one day (but may never, still, I dream with dreaming dreams about dreams and stuff)

I fart in joy at the littlest things. When Elder Scrolls V is announced, the first Hurricane to be born in Pennsylvania will form and swing around the United States five times without breaking anything, except wind. (So I exaggerate a bit in comedic exaggeration, lol)


As for Quake-Con, something big is going to go down. Something very big. It may even be, an earthquake (Actually what I know will be revealed there is more information on Doom 4 - that is Doom... with a FOUR next to it! A FOUR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111111111one LIKE THE ONE IN GOLF! OR THE HOMOPHONE OF "FOR" or "FORE" or "FOIR" or "FORR" or "F?R" or I svck AT CAPITALIZING LETTERS WITH DOTS OR OTHER STUFF ABOVE THEM BECAUSE I DONT KNOW THE ALT CODE FOR IT >:[[[[)

However I think at Quake-Con it may just be more information on Elder Scrolls V, the first look may be in August issue of GI. I can feel it, in my bones. And I like to feel my bones when I have feelings in them.

[Charlie Sarson]

Do note that previous post is at 4:35 AM, when the ambien was starting to take effect. Oh, it's stronger now, I'm just calm and collected because I am absolutely LOVING this tuna sandwich from subway! I think I'll hang around until morning breaks. Strange, since around this time, in Great Britain they might be up for breakfast. In Russia, there may be a soccer game being played by a group of kids in Moscow around noontime, and in China, the preparations of a lovely ceremony honoring local folk heroes with story telling and puppetry is about to start, just in time for the setting sun, whereas here, the rising sun is about an hour away from peaking across the horizon!

[laila hassan]

Just keep posting on the forums and pay attention to when the flood control time goes up. Something big will go down then.

[anna ley]

If you think about it, if Bethesda ARE working on a new Elder Scrolls then they have done one HELL of a job keeping it quiet! Imagine all the people who have left the company over the development time or the developers going home of an evening and discussing their day with their wives, who then do the school drop off the next day and talk to other wives who then talk to their gaming husbands etc........ All this risk and we know NOTHING!!!

It is possible to keep a lid on things.

At (or just before) E3, we learned two things from MS: that project Natal was to be re-dubbed as Kinect, and that a new Xbox design with some specific hardware changes and a new case design was going to be released - and just 12 hours before the scheduled announcement, it got blown because of an AM/PM snafu in an Italian office. But work started on the new design Xbox two years ago - and with the exception of one blurry photo of a mid-fab mobo, nothing got out about it -- that is a pretty well kept secret that hundreds of people in several countries knew for around two years, and it only slipped at the last possible second. People at MS, similarly, knew the the Kinect name for months, and kept a lid on it.

Personally I'm surprised it is still possible to keep a big company secret these days, but it just goes to show.


SECOND POINT:

Everybody lower your expectations! I see people here expecting a trailer, a 2010 release, a great deal of info, and a great many other things that are unlikely. I hope with the rest of you that TES V breaks this week on the GI cover, but IF IT DOES, mark my words, the information revealed about it will be limited enough to be summed up in a single paragraph - and still subject to change, and we probably won't get more substantive information until Quakecon (and that will probably only be a vague CGI tease). Next year, at E3 2011, that is when a major non-teaser trailer will likely drop, and the game probably won't come out until holiday '11 or Q1 '12.

First things first, we just want them to confirm that work is in progress, and maybe some tiny details like platforms and a hint about the scenario - I would not hope for more than that before Quakecon at best.

If we are so lucky as to be confirmed in our theories about the GI cover, all we can count on, and indeed all we should reasonably expect, is public confirmation that the game is being worked on. Best put any other hopes on ice for the time being friends.

[Claire]

GI cover stories do tend to be a few paragraphs where they sell the general scenario, the biggest new mechanics and a speculative release date if they have one, but with lots and lots of screenshots. That's more what I'm looking for. I have plenty enough games coming out this Chistmas and early next year for the Wii so I don't need a new TES yet, since that kind of game you really need time to enjoy.

[David John Hunter]

I don't mind if it's only a tiny tease - just the confirmation of its existence will be enough for me

[Vera Maslar]

Demo CD??????? You can't beat the demo 3.5" floppy days!!!!!!!!

I can't remember the game, but the cover was some dog/demon beastie glaring down with his teeth out... that was my first issue back in 1999. Seems like a long long time ago! Remember the 100th issue like it was yesterday!!! I guess my first one was around the 60 to 70 mark. I doubt it was earlier.

[Gisela Amaya]

Do note that previous post is at 4:35 AM, when the ambien was starting to take effect. Oh, it's stronger now, I'm just calm and collected because I am absolutely LOVING this tuna sandwich from subway! I think I'll hang around until morning breaks. Strange, since around this time, in Great Britain they might be up for breakfast. In Russia, there may be a soccer game being played by a group of kids in Moscow around noontime, and in China, the preparations of a lovely ceremony honoring local folk heroes with story telling and puppetry is about to start, just in time for the setting sun, whereas here, the rising sun is about an hour away from peaking across the horizon!

And there was me thinking you were drunk!

[Rudy Paint fingers]

If you think about it, if Bethesda ARE working on a new Elder Scrolls then they have done one HELL of a job keeping it quiet! Imagine all the people who have left the company over the development time or the developers going home of an evening and discussing their day with their wives, who then do the school drop off the next day and talk to other wives who then talk to their gaming husbands etc........ All this risk and we know NOTHING!!!

Nondisclosure agreements. It's not fun being sued after all.

[Jay Baby]

GameInformer's July cover, Infamous 2, received lots of coverage all month and a dedicated "hub" on the website. The hub has links to a dozen or so articles including a special edition podcast.

I haven't watched GameInformer's website long enough to know if this is standard proceedure. Were the previous Beth games covered this well during their reveal months? Will we get a whole month of info from GameInformer or just the magazine cover, a short article, and that's it?

[Maria Leon]

GameInformer's July cover, Infamous 2, received lots of coverage all month and a dedicated "hub" on the website. The hub has links to a dozen or so articles including a special edition podcast.

I haven't watched GameInformer's website long enough to know if this is standard proceedure. Were the previous Beth games covered this well during their reveal months? Will we get a whole month of info from GameInformer or just the magazine cover, a short article, and that's it?

Probably depends on how much is known about the game by GI. I'd expect there to be less info on TES V than on Infamous 2, but who knows.

[Agnieszka Bak]

Probably depends on how much is known about the game by GI. I'd expect there to be less info on TES V than on Infamous 2, but who knows.

Probably. Each TES game is huge. Therefore, I doubt we'll have a lot of info within the first 1-3 months of announcement.

[Chica Cheve]

Theoretically, is it possible for Bethesda to announce TES V any minute now?

[Klaire]

Theoretically, is it possible for Bethesda to announce TES V any minute now?

They probably could...