The Elder Scrolls VI Is Sentinel: No Release Date Yet

Bethesda has confirmed that the next Elder Scrolls game is The Elder Scrolls VI: Sentinel. The name was revealed on 3 November 2026 at the end of a video marking 40 years of Bethesda Game Studios; press reports are timestamped from 15:06 UTC (10:06 a.m. ET, 20:36 IST). Bethesda gave no release date, platforms, price or gameplay.

What Bethesda confirmed

• Title: The Elder Scrolls VI: Sentinel. In the anniversary video, Todd Howard said "what a perfect time to tell you what The Elder Scrolls 6 is actually called", according to Video Games Chronicle.

• Teaser: a short clip shows a scroll buried under a sand dune, then the logo, then a quote credited to Yazar, a Moth Priest of High Queen Iradne of Hammerfell, dated 4E 206, as Polygon reports.

• What comes next: Bethesda's post on X says it will be "some time before we're ready to share more".

The Xbox Wire post itself is only the logo, as The Verge notes. Bethesda first announced the game more than eight years ago, so this is a name reveal and nothing else.

What the teaser suggests, and what it does not prove

Bethesda's post refers to revealing the "location", and the quote names Hammerfell, the desert province that has appeared in earlier Elder Scrolls games and The Elder Scrolls Online. The Verge's reporting says the game is set in Hammerfell, and the sand in the teaser fits that. The title also matches Sentinel, a place in Hammerfell in series lore. Polygon points out that 4E 206 would put the game five years after the events of Skyrim. All of that is reading between the lines: Bethesda has not described the setting, the story or the time period.

Still not announced

Why the timing matters

The Verge reported the week before that Bethesda planned to name the game in November, a month that marks 15 years since The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim launched on 11 November 2011. Until Bethesda posts an official date, treat any specific launch-year claim as speculation. If you want to be ready on an Xbox, our Xbox Series X|S setup guide and Xbox Series X|S troubleshooting guide cover the basics, and the Xbox Series X console page lists the hardware.

For readers in India: there is no regional price or release information yet. The 15:06 UTC reports correspond to 20:36 IST on 3 November.

How this was made: drafted with AI assistance from Xbox Wire, Bethesda's post on X and the press reports listed below. We checked every quote and date against those pages on 5 November 2026 (IST). Bethesda has shown no gameplay, so nothing here describes how the game plays.