June 16, 2026
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‘Do they really need marketing for Elder Scrolls 6?’ Skyrim lead designer says Bethesda probably won’t make a TV show for The Elder Scrolls because it’s already making ‘literally billions of dollars’

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The Fallout TV series is a bonafide hit, and Season 2, if anything, is even more highly regarded by both critics and fans than Season 1. So, wouldn’t it make sense for Bethesda to make lightning strike twice? People love Skyrim even more than Fallout, so shouldn’t Bethesda try to turn The Elder Scrolls into…

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Animators are fuming after Adobe announces it’s killing Adobe Animate, the Flash animation tool that defined the look of early web games

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When web developers moved on from the Flash plugin in the 2010s, Adobe kept the software used to make Flash animations alive under the name Adobe Animate. Not for much longer, though: Adobe announced today that Animate will soon be removed from sale, with support and access to the software ending over the next few…

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Skyrim lead praises Todd Howard for trying ‘desperately’ not to micromanage and be a ‘bottleneck’, even though he still ‘does what he calls seagulling where he swoops in and changes things’

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In a new interview with PressBoxPR, Bethesda veteran and Skyrim’s lead designer Bruce Nesmith has gone over his time at the studio, addressing topics like why it wouldn’t make sense to switch to Unreal Engine. One of the questions he’s asked is about studio head Todd Howard, and how the public perception of him differs…

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Larian publishing chief wades into the fray, says Morrowind updated with a modern combat system ‘would sell like f**king hotcakes’

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Bruce Nesmith has an enviable list of design and writing credits earned over a long history on some of Bethesda’s greatest games: Daggerfall, Oblivion, Skyrim (on which he served as lead designer), Fallout 3 and 4, and others. None of which prevented him from being extremely wrong in his recent assessment that “the reality of…

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