The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind News

Morrowind's most impossibly ambitious mod just added a whole new region for its 7th expansion in 22 years

One of the most ambitious mods in history got even bigger today with the release of Tamriel Rebuilt's Andaram expansion, the seventh major add-on for the 22-year-old Morrowind mod project that is, somehow, older than Morrowind itself...
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Elder Scrolls 6 will keep Skyrim's approach to levelling and "traces" of its magic, says former Starfield designer

The Elder Scrolls 6 is going to be a mixture of new ideas and RPG systems that go all the way back to The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion, according to Bethesda's former design director Bruce Nesmith, who was lead designer on The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim and senior designer on Starfield. In particular, Nesmith reckons it will "absolutely" continue with Skyrim's approach to levelling and progression, whereby you improved skills by performing the associated actions. He also thinks the game will "probably" retain elements of the magic system he designed for Skyrim, which broke away from Oblivion and Morrowind in being simpler to understand and more immediately powerful, at the price of flexibility and inventiveness.

Not many mod projects have 122-page chronicles of their own history, but then not many mod projects are Tamriel Rebuilt, a mod for The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind whose aim is to, well, build Morrowind. The rest of it, I mean. Because in spite of the name, Morrowind doesn't actually contain its entire titular province...
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If Bethesda are remastering Oblivion and Fallout 3, why not Morrowind?

According to leaked documents, Microsoft are/were remastering Oblivion and Fallout 3. This is boring. The past decade of innumerable remasters has been boring enough, but remastering these two games is particularly boring. When even bother when all Bethesda have made since Oblivion is Oblivion remakes with added spacesuits or yelling? Boring. But while I think the torrent of remasters is a miserable sign of big publishers just giving up, if they're going to do it anyway: why not Morrowind?

The Elder Scrolls Morrowind engine might seem outdated by now, superseded by Skyrim, Fallout 4, and of course the vibrant new visuals of Starfield. But the Bethesda RPG game remains a reliable old workhorse, capable of surprising us more than 20 years after it first launched. We've seen mods, overhauls, and even a full Morrowind remake, but the tech underlying Bethesda's beautiful beast is useful for much, much more. Enter RoboWind Construct, a new shooter with hints of System Shock, Deus Ex, Half-Life, and maybe a glimpse of an alternate universe where Starfield was built as an FPS in the '90s. And it's all, somehow, built on the same systems as The Elder Scrolls Morrowind.

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