This is a series of games all of which are in 3D and set in the same fantasy world, Tamriel. Most, but not all of them are RPGs. Tamriel was originally created by some Bethesda devs as a D&D setting. From game to game, this world was fleshed out more.

For November 2011, the release of a new full game, Skyrim, is scheduled.

The Elder Scrolls Travels

There have been two spin-offs for mobile phones under the title The Elder Scrolls Travels, Stormhold and Dawnstar. The screenshots look a lot like the old Wizardry games. On platforms like these, classic gaming is coming back.

With Shadowkey, the Travels series moved to the N-Gage. Since the N-gage is somewhat more powerful than a cell phone, Shadowkey has a sort of 3D environment resembling Daggerfall. In fact, Marc Jones used the original battle animation from this game!

In 2009, a PSP version of Oblivion was released in the Travels series.

Freeware!

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Elder Scrolls series, Bethesda decided to make Arena available for free from their website on 2004-04-05. It was long thought unlikely that they would ever do the same with Daggerfall. Though it had never been confirmed by Bethesda, it was generally assumed that Daggerfall contained some third-party code under a license precluding free distribution. Even before the freeware release, Bethesda never interfered with the distribution of Arena by abandonware sites, but demanded that Daggerfall be taken down.

However in July 2009 Bethesda did, in fact release Daggerfall as freeware.

Links

• Official Website of the Elder Scrolls series.
• The Unofficial Elder Scrolls Pages is an institution dating from the times of Daggerfall. It has meanwhile been converted into a wiki. As of 2010-05-18, it had 12,477 articles.