Arkane Studios’s upcoming DLC for Dishonored, entitled The Brigmore Witches, should neatly wrap up the story of the game’s protagonist. Naturally, as is the case with almost everything these days, there’s an interview about that! For those of you who greatly enjoyed Dishonored, this may be one not to miss.

Speaking of which…the Australian ratings board may have inadvertently outed the existence of a Game of the Year box set version of Dishonored.

There was an interesting shakeup at Bethesda-owned id Software this week, too: John Carmack signed on as CTO for the Oculus Rift project. He has stated that he will remain involved at id, although for the time being it would seem that most of his energies will be poured into the Rift and its development.

Of course, as was discussed previously, Bethesda recently came out and…kind of implied that the top-selling Dishonored would become a franchise, whereas id’s Rage (which didn’t sell as well) might not. id have their own opinions about the franchise potential of Rage, and Bethesda’s Pete Hines claims that the company is all about the quality, not the volume. But one can’t help but wonder if Carmack’s sudden shift in priorities wasn’t helped along by some manner of clash between him and id’s current owner.

Speaking of id Software, they’ve gone and restarted development on Doom 4. I guess the first version lacked “personality”.

And in somewhat-related news (since it’s a franchise id invented), Wolfenstein: The New Order has also been delayed, ostensibly to give Machine Games more time to polish it. Which, given the different approach to the franchise that they seem to be taking, is probably a good thing.

Bethesda also re-iterated that they have no plans to support Nintendo’s Wii U at this time.

Amazon UK has hailed Skyrim as the “Game of the Generation”, or some such. People certainly do seem to enjoy playing it, and its support for mods will give it a longevity that other games will envy. To say nothing of how obscenely well it sold! (Some of its characters are also fairly memorable.)

Oh, and for those of you who just love The Elder Scrolls, this anthology may be of interest. “May.”

The Elder Scrolls Online seems, according to some, more and more like Skyrim as an MMORPG, which I suppose isn’t a bad thing. The game was played live at QuakeCon just recently, to the great enjoyment of the audience, and a thirty-minute gameplay video was also released recently. Which, naturally, has been analyzed half to death by now.

Finally, OpenMW had another good week.