It has been fifteen whole years since Skyrim released for the first time, blowing everyone away with its sprawling take on the RPG genre. Back then, it would have been scarcely imaginable that we wouldn't be a playing a new game in the series by 2026, particularly given that the game between games previously had only been around 4–5 years.
Even worse than that, it doesn't really seem like The Elder Scrolls VI is on the immediate horizon, given that we have basically seen nothing of it so far beyond a five-second announcement trailer. Add to that everything that's going on at Xbox right now, and the situation feels like it can't be anything other than a bit bleak for the average player.
Well, as it turns out, the latter might not be affecting the development of the game quite as much as it might first appear, hopefully meaning a reveal could be on the horizon over the next year or two.
As first reported by Eurogamer, Bethesda was one of the studios affected by the layoffs at Xbox over the last six months or so. Within that, the main game studio lost fifty staff members, and though they...
