

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. Although that might be a good thing for the Elder Scrolls 6 engine.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. You might want to get some comfy clothes on though because it’s going to be a long wait. But we’ll have to wait and see whether anything comes of these settlement discussions. If these discussions are successful, there’s a good chance that we’ll soon know for sure whether Redfall is the official title for Elder Scrolls 6, and if that is the case, we might even be getting some news about the sequel to Skyrim in the not-so-distant-future. Much more than you’ve got kicking around after spending hundreds of hours in Skyrim.

which could mean (according to the dates in the original trademark application) we have to wait until 2021 for information about Elder Scrolls 6’s official title.

If that happened each side would have to argue their own case for retaining the trademark. “Settlement discussions” is a fancy way to say ZeniMax and are trying to get all of this cleared up without having to go through the stress of a long trademark dispute.

Bethesda's Redfall trademark is making people wonder if Elder Scrolls 6 could be set during a deadly plague
