Though its announcement was “breathtaking”, the best news came at the end of the weekend. Bethesda’s Nick Breckon confirmed that the fifth installment into the fabled role-playing series won’t be, as expected, using id’s Tech 5 engine. However, he did confirm that the sequel uses an “all-new” engine, one built internally at the studio — instead of the outdated engine used in the original.

In a shocking turn of events, Bethesda’s Todd Howard took to the stage at the awards, surrounded in a menagerie of monks, to unveil the long awaited Elder Scrolls sequel, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, the direct sequel to Oblivion.

“For sometime now, we at Bethesda been have searching for the prefect venue to announce our latest project,” said Howard, when hyping the unexpected announcement. “This is that time.” Then, the camera shifted and video featuring stone dragons and dramatic narration was unveiled, rushing attention to the sequel.

Fallout 3 is still yet to hit stores and news is already began circulating that Fallout 4 is already in the minds of the people over at Bethesda. Speaking interview with TotalVideoGames, Bethesda Games, Pete Hines, told them that they have further plans beyond this year’s hugely anticipated title. “The whole reason we went out and acquired the license and that we now own Fallout is that we clearly intended to make more than one,” claimed Hines.

“This is not something we’re going to do once and then go away and never do it again,” said Hines adding, “when that will be or how long that will be god only knows, but we acquired it specifically because we wanted to own it and develop it and work on it like we do with The Elder Scrolls.”