Bethesda Leaves A 'Minecraft' Easter Egg In 'Skyrim'

Geekology: Prior to the release of Skyrim, Bethesda Software generated some buzz by filing a lawsuit against the creator of Minecraft, Markus "Notch" Persson. Basically, Notch was making a game called Scrolls and wanted to file for a copyright on the name, which made Bethesda worried that he might make a copyright claim against their flagship Elder Scrolls series.

So Bethesda filed a pre-emptive copyright claim against the new game. Notch, being a mere game programmer and not a digital copyright mastermind, offered to play against Bethesda in a game of Quake 3 rather than go to court, to which Bethesda declined.

[Redjevel]

fake.... you can make any name for the weapons/armors when you enchant them and when you enchant them the price will go up and you see it cost now about 303! coins.... it normaly cost about 10 or less

[Drake117]

Not fake i found it on top of the throat of the world.

[Christopher]

Not fake, but nothing to do with Minecraft. Notched weapons and utensils have been in The Elder Scrolls since... at least the fourth one.

[RedDead]

It probably is, why a 'notched pickaxe' is just sticking out of the throat of the world, he only times Bethesda do crap like that is a reference to something else, however small.

I mean "Some NPC's in the game comment "Let me guess, someone stole your sweetroll." or something along those lines, this is a clear reference to Fallout 3 where the bully at your birthday party demands you hand over your sweetroll that was given to you as a gift. The Fallout event is, in turn, a reference to the character creation process in the Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, wherein the player character is asked how they would react to a bully stealing their sweetroll in order to determine the player's class. The stolen sweetroll is thus a long-running Bethesda joke. It can also be found when creating your character in "Daggerfall", the second Elders Scrolls game Bethesda released. "

There's shi* like this in it, there's been a Luke skywalker hanging upside down reference twice now, one in Skyrim one in MW. Cept it's a skelaton reaching for his sword on the ground.

Although I agree, this is no article, if they wanted they could do a larger one with more Easter eggs but this is shi* and it's potentially not even one.

[spicelicka]

this is stupid, there are so many axes in the damn game and you can change the name as mentioned in the ^above post^ so unless they confirm it themselves, this is retarded.

[hotskys]

^LOL It's not fake. It's on the throat of the world. I have it. but nice try

[IaMs12]

Haha okay it maybe called a Notched Axe but come on i doubt it because of Minecraft. There are many games with Notched axes name.

[thrasherv3]

"There are many games with Notched axes name."

Like?

[Heartnet]

Just google Notched Axe.. games do come up :)

[radphil]

WoW, Allods Online, Neverwinter Nights, Hunted, and many other games.

[jrbeerman11]

burn lol

two comments on the site say that oblivion had the notched axe as well. Which came out before Minecraft so this is a non story.

[Dac2u]

Google Notched Pickaxe, which is the name of the item and see what you come up with. Other than this easter egg, there's nothing. The fact that it can be found sticking out of the side of the mountain next to a bunch of ore is another clue that it was put there on purpose.

[Neostriker73]

Haha, I'm sorry to say but the notched pickaxe was in Oblivion. Or at least "notched" weapons as far as I can remembe. However, 'notched" has nothing to do with Minecraft.

[SuperStrokey1123]

How bad are the bugs in this game? Im rather interested in getting it when i have the time to play it assuming the bugs are not bad.

[bozebo]

Most of the bugs are just funny.

Until you get stuck in some geometry and have to load. (or use the command console on PC)

[Snowii]

BETHESDA Y U NO WORK ON FALLOUT 4?

[PhunnyJesta]

cuz the elder scrolls series is better

[Snowii]

:O

i think theire both great games but very diffrent

fallout is more modern and has that apocalypse atmosphere

and skyrim has that adventurer feeling

and i actualy dont prefer any of them on the other :D

[bozebo]

I prefer elder scrolls.

A lot of the greatness of FA3 was just Bethesda maturing their gameplay design, so it had a lot of smart changes which have been reflected in Skyrim, where relevant. It was also really well stylised.

It's still no Morrowind though, they should remake it for the new engine so all the people who started with Oblivion or Skyrim can experience it (heard a lot of people complain the graphics are too bad). But they won't get the millions of console sales unless they brand it as new and have TV advert campaigns or something. Zenimax will never realise that they could make more money and please gamers at the same time :/