December 2025: The Turning Point Elder Scrolls 6 Fans Have Been Waiting For
After years of silence and a lone 30-second tease, Bethesda may finally lift the lid on The Elder Scrolls 6 this December, with rumors pointing to a concrete reveal — possibly even a new trailer.
We have been living off a 30-second teaser and wishful thinking for years, and now the whisper mill is pointing to December as the month The Elder Scrolls 6 finally shows its face again. If that sounds familiar, it should: the last real moment was 2018. By the time we hit December 2025, that is pushing eight years of radio silence. So, why all the sudden confidence? Because The Game Awards lands in December, and that show is exactly the kind of megaphone Bethesda likes to use.
Why December 2025 actually tracks
The Game Awards has turned into the industry’s biggest year-end spectacle, pulling in millions of live-stream and social views. If you want to drop a trailer that reignites a franchise, that is the room you do it in. Bethesda has a track record of saving big reveals for big stages, and right now both Bethesda and Xbox could use a win after the underwhelming response to Starfield. In other words: the timing would be very convenient.
There is also chatter that a new Elder Scrolls 6 trailer has been circulating internally at Bethesda for months. If that is true, what they really need is not more time, but the right moment to push play. The Game Awards feels engineered for exactly that.
"A final trailer is ready and being reviewed internally."
Jez Corden, Xbox Two Podcast
The stakes (and the competition)
If Bethesda waits past The Game Awards 2025, they risk fading into the background again, and this time the background includes Grand Theft Auto 6. Rockstar has May 2026 circled, which means the hype machine will be deafening by spring. Announcing Elder Scrolls 6 on a quieter date after TGA 2025 would be like trying to chat over a stadium PA.
The simple version
- 2018: Bethesda drops a 30-second Elder Scrolls 6 teaser and then goes quiet.
- Rumor mill: A new, final trailer has been ready internally for months, just waiting for a stage.
- December 11, 2025: The Game Awards is the obvious, high-visibility moment to reveal it.
- May 2026: GTA 6 arrives, and any later reveal risks getting drowned out by Rockstar’s hype cycle.
Put it all together and December 2025 looks like Bethesda’s best shot to make Elder Scrolls 6 feel real again. Miss that window, and the long hiatus since 2018 stops feeling mysterious and starts feeling like a disappearing act.
If you had to bet, would you put your chips on a TGA trailer? Or do we keep waiting while GTA 6 soaks up all the oxygen? Tell me where your hype meter is at.