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Ratwar, an administrator here at UESP, is the most recent official forums moderator to be interviewed by the Bethesda Blog. For all the details, including the meaning of his username, read the interview.

The Bethesda Blog has news about the first of two Elder Scrolls novels. The Infernal City, written by Greg Keyes, will be released on November 24th and is available for pre-order from Amazon.

To supplement a slow news month, a brief announcement about the creation of the UESP Blog; it is a new place for UESP editors and fans to write about and discuss Elder Scrolls, games and other topics not entirely suitable for the UESPWiki or UESP's forums. Though there are only a few blog posts up so far, we've already recruited a few authors so check for more topics in the upcoming weeks.

Pete Hines has clarified Todd Howard's comments at Quakecon in a way that essentially restores the status quo ante. "Both Todd and I have said repeatedly that, of course, we’re going to do another Elder Scrolls game.", he said in a post on BethBlog. The post also scotches rumors of an Elder Scrolls MMO made by Bethesda itself, but it leaves open the possibility of one done by ZeniMax Online Studios.

While giving a speech on game development at Quakecon, Todd Howard did a brief question and answer session. After being asked a question regarding the future of the Elder Scrolls series, Howard said that there are no current plans for "Elder Scrolls 5" according to Big Download. Of course, the 'current' part of the article is not in quotes, and so far the UESP staff hasn't found a direct quote of Howard — this could just mean they aren't ready to announce it, and that people are reading far too much into Howard's words.

We've finally replaced the faulty hard drive on our database server this morning. The longer downtime was due to having to restore the entire database from an off-site backup which took most of the day to upload. We couldn't simply restore from the old hard drive as our ISP reported smoke coming out of it this morning...so it seems we restored just in time. Due to the sudden death of the old drive we did lose all content created over the past day (between 4am August 2nd and 9am on August 3rd). Short of breaking out the magnetometer, this data is gone forever.

Hopefully this will be the last major issue we see on any server in a while.