Video Gaming News - April 2004
Bethesda, MD (April 5, 2004) - Bethesda Softworks today announced the
10th anniversary of its RPG series, The Elder Scrolls, and a celebration of the
event on the official Elder Scrolls web site:
www.elderscrolls.com.
From Bethesda Softworks:
The series, which began in 1994, helped usher in the resurgence of computer
role-playing games and the series as a whole has been played by millions of
gamers around the world and won hundred of awards.
Bethesda's Elder Scrolls series pioneered open-ended worlds and freeform
gameplay, where players could go and do whatever they wanted. The series began
in 1994 with the release of Arena™, and continued with Daggerfall® in 1996 and
Morrowind® in 2002. In addition, Bethesda released two spin-off products: An
Elder Scrolls Legend: Battlespire™ -- an action game released in 1997, The Elder
Scrolls Adventures: Redguard® -- an adventure game released in 1998, and The
Elder Scrolls Travels™ -- a series of games released for mobile phones in 2003.
"We're incredibly excited to reach this milestone. With each game, we try to
create something unique that we'd love to play, and it's great to have an
audience that shares that passion with us," said Todd Howard, executive producer
for The Elder Scrolls series. "The first decade of The Elder Scrolls has meant a
lot to video games and gamers, and we hope the second decade will mean even
more."
The anniversary will be marked by an updated section on The Elder Scrolls
series as well as an Elder Scrolls Giveaway, featuring tons of prizes including
Elder Scrolls memorabilia, original artwork, and great prizes from Hip Gear,
Logitech, Creative Labs, ATI, and NVIDIA.
In addition, for a limited time Bethesda is making the full version of the
original Elder Scrolls game - The Elder Scrolls: Arena™ - available for
download. This classic RPG from 1994 allows players to explore all of Tamriel as
they seek to restore the power of the Emperor. (A DOS emulator is also available
for download that will allow gamers to experience Arena on today's hardware and
operating systems.)
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