Bethesda Softworks is proud to announce the
10th anniversary of its award-winning RPG series, The Elder Scrolls, and
will be celebrating the event over the next month on the official Elder
Scrolls web site: http://www.elderscrolls.com. 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.)