The Elder Scrolls VI: Sentinel Is Official, Release Date Still Nowhere in Sight
The Elder Scrolls VI finally has its full name. Bethesda Game Studios revealed it as The Elder Scrolls VI: Sentinel at the end of a video celebrating…
Why am I seeing this Ranked on recency
It is here mostly because it is new. Freshness is the largest single contributor to its score, which means nothing about the story except that it is recent.
Nothing much is corroborating this yet. On a quiet day in gaming that is enough to reach the top of the section — recency, not significance, is doing the work here.
Link-outLink-out, because only one organisation carries it and no first-party source is on it. Link-out means we point at the publisher and say nothing of our own.
| Factor | Weight | Score | Contribution | Where it came from |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Corroboration | 0.35 | 0.39 | +0.135 31% | 1 independent org on the story. Tier-3 aggregators never corroborate — they can show something is circulating, never that it is true. |
| Source trust | 0.25 | 0.44 | +0.110 25% | TechPowerUp is the highest-trust source on this story. Trust is taken from the best source, not averaged. |
| Pickup rate | 0.20 | 0.00 | +0.000 0% | One counted organisation, so there is no spread to measure — nothing has picked this up to set a rate. |
| Freshnessleads | 0.20 | 0.99 | +0.197 45% | Halves every 10 hours from the newest item on the story. This is the only factor that rewards a story for nothing more than being recent. |
Corroboration counts distinct organisations, once each, and only from tiers 1 and 2. Freshness halves every 10 hours, so this ranking is a snapshot and will differ at the next build.
What happened
The Elder Scrolls VI finally has its full name. Bethesda Game Studios revealed it as The Elder Scrolls VI: Sentinel at the end of a video celebrating the studio's 40th anniversary, with Todd Howard walking through Bethesda's history first. The short teaser that followed has no gameplay, just a stretch of desert, an Elder Scroll rising out of the sand, and the new logo. It also carries a line of lore text credited to Yazar, Moth Priest to High Queen Iradne of Hammerfell, dated 4E 206. Skyrim takes place in 4E 201, so it looks like Sentinel is set roughly five years later, in the Redguard homeland of Hammerfell. Sentinel itself is one of Hammerfell's major cities, sitting on the Iliac Bay.
How this story arrived
Ordered by when each source was first observed, which is what the velocity figure is computed from. Publishers backdate; observed order does not.
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