Bethesda has announced that the company is moving on to new projects, ending its DLC support for their last game, Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim, leaving the studio open to begin the rumored Fallout 4. Speaking on the Bethesda Blog, the company has declared that while Skyrim may receive some minor updates, the game will no longer get DLC updates due to the company moving forward on their next big project.
"For the last year and a half we've been working on new content for Skyrim; from the game updates, Creation Kit, Steam Workshop, Kinect support, to DLCs. Parts of our team have also been in pre-production on our next major project, and that game is at the point where it requires the studio's full attention to make it our biggest and best work yet. Even though we're moving on, we'll still have minor updates to Skyrim as needed. We've invested so much of ourselves into Skyrim and will never truly say goodbye to it," the company stated.
The company did not mention what the upcoming project will be, but many are assuming that the game will be Fallout 4. As previously reported, Bethesda has hinted that the company is planning to have a very big 2013, and a sequel to the beloved Fallout 3 would certainly qualify as big news, especially considering that Fallout: New Vegas, created by Obsidian and not Bethesda, was met with rather lukewarm responses from critics and gamers.
In the meantime, if Bethesda does not follow up Skyrim with another Fallout title, they certainly have several other big titles to develop and continue with. Dishonored is slated to receive more DLC in the near future, and the company is slated to release Elder Scrolls Online sometime later this year. We shall see if Bethesda announces Fallout 4 as their next title, or if these rumors are false as time goes on.