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Bethesda Softworks Announces
10th Anniversary of The Elder Scrolls Series
Month-Long Celebration Includes Giveaway,
Free Copy of The Elder Scrolls: Arena
April 5, 2004 (Rockville, MD) - 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: 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.)
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