E3 2010 is closing in fast, and there's plenty of buzz around what major players have in store. One of the rumors says you can expect to see big things from Bethesda, the name behind titles like The Elder Scrolls series and Fallout 3. Unnamed sources hint that the company will unbox a fresh TES installment, but it's unclear whether the title will be an Elder Scrolls MMO or something more akin to previous games like Oblivion and Morrowind.
Although Bethesda has never outright confirmed that an Elder Scrolls MMO is being created, Fudzilla reports that as many as 100 people have been working on it since 2006 – or around the time TES IV: Oblivion launched. Bethesda has supposedly continuously funded that project, but the number of people laboring on it has fluctuated over the years.
As for the possibility of a cookie-cutter offline TES title, an Elder Scrolls V novel was released and described as "[partly bridging] the gap for the next game, which is set 200 years after the Oblivion crisis." This leaves us with nothing but speculation, but June 15 will be here in no time. Until then, let your imagination run wild.
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Microsoft to fix 34 vulnerabilities in next week's Patch Tuesday
Microsoft has released their advance notification for June's upcoming 'Patch Tuesday', and it looks like system administrators will have their work cut out for them next week. The company will be releasing 10 security bulletins and patches to address the 34 vulnerabilities disclosed in them. Of the ten bulletins, three are rated "Critical" and could allow an attacker to take full control of the targeted machine through security holes in Windows and Internet Explorer.
The remaining seven bulletins are all marked as important and deal with bugs in Windows and Office concerning remote code execution issues, elevation of privileges and tampering with targeted systems. The updates are due to cover two un-patched vulnerabilities, a cross-site scripting bug in SharePoint (KB983438) disclosed back in April, and an information leakage bug in Internet Explorer (KB980088) that has been known since February.
As usual, there will also be an update for the Windows Malicious Software Removal tool. More details will come with the release of the patches on Tuesday.
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