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When Bethesda appear information technology was showing off a new Fallout game at E3 this yr, it was prophylactic to assume that game would be the major focus of the testify. That it would be what we were all be talking nigh afterward.

That would have been normal. It's Fallout, for God's sake.

But that wasn't the case.

In what I'd telephone call one of the best E3 conferences in recent retention, Bethesda appear The Elder Scrolls 6 -- plus a whole new Elderberry Scrolls mobile game -- a new Doom, a new Wolfenstein, showed off Rage 2 and Fallout 76 (of class) and also showed off its beginning totally new franchise in 25 years: a science fiction game called Starfield.

It was insane.

So let's commencement in terms of importance...

Elderberry Scrolls Half dozen is real

We know zippo. Nosotros know literally cypher. All Bethesda showed at the conference was a logo, playing alongside the soundtrack to Skyrim. At the briefing, Todd Howard called Elderberry Scrolls VI the next, next game it was working on, and so we'll forgive information technology for that.

The Elder Scrolls: Blades is an all-new mobile game

While we know most nothing about the next installment of Elder Scrolls, we know quite a flake about its brand-new spinoff, The Elder Scrolls: Blades. This is a mobile-first game coming to iOS and Android subsequently this year, with additional platforms promised to follow, including a planned VR mode. And the game will exist gratis to play, besides.

Here'south the next game Bethesda is working on...

This is Starfield

Once again, nosotros know very little except it'due south a science fiction game prepare in space. I would hope it's a scientific discipline fiction game prepare in space with the scope of, say, an Elderberry Scrolls or a Fallout. That's reasonable to presume given the fashion Todd Howard was talking most it. This is a major Bethesda game. Howard referred to it every bit the offset major new franchise game for the company in over 20 years.

This is a very big bargain. I doubtable we won't see this game in action for a long fourth dimension, but it'south enthralling to know it exists.

Fallout 76 is a new type of online feel

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Earlier at Microsoft's E3 conference, you lot'd be forgiven for thinking Fallout 76 was a make-new Fallout game.

It is and it isn't.

Fallout 76 is expressly an online video game. "Of course y'all can play this solo," explained Howard. But he also mentioned that Fallout 76 is "entirely online."

The idea of Fallout 76: Every human y'all meet in the world is an bodily human being in real life. Merely Howard stressed that this is a game that volition exist played with dozens of other players, not hundreds. Survival is the focus.

Howard did an incredible job of communicating the concept of this game to a player base that might not interested in playing an online version of Fallout. "Information technology'southward a trivial chip scary," he admitted, but tried to communicate that information technology was a journey he hoped to have with a customs used to single-player experiences.

BioWare, take note: This is how you brace your customers for something a little bit unlike.

Rage 2 was everything you lot thought it might exist

Rage 2 was the sequel nobody asked for, simply nosotros're getting it, then it might as well be a souped-upward shooter in the style of Mad Max: Fury Road by a developer who literally but got done making a Mad Max video game.

Considering the aesthetic we've seen and so far, Rage 2 is everything you lot idea it might exist: Information technology's pitching itself every bit a frenetically paced shooter. Call back Bulletstorm, call up Dusk Overdrive. This could be a lot of fun.

An E3 joke that actually worked

I can't believe they pulled this off. I actually enjoyed an E3 inside joke. Please give me my Alexa Skyrim Edition.

A sequel to Doom is incoming

Doom was a game that looked terrible right upward until it was on sale and actually really, really good. A sequel was a no-brainer, and nosotros got information technology. Bethesda showed very fiddling of this game, but it definitely exists. Program is to show more than at QuakeCon in August.

And the residual

That covers the headlines of the Bethesda E3 briefing. Just in that location was too a new Wolfenstein game set in the '80s chosen Wolfenstein Youngblood...

More than information on Quake Champions:

And information on what's next for The Elder Scrolls on online:

What an incredible testify.

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