(Possible Spoiler Below to Easter Egg)
Prior to the recent release of the Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Bethesda Software caused a stir by filing a lawsuit against the creator of Minecraft, Markus "Notch" Persson. Basically, Notch had been in the process of creating a game called ‘Scrolls’ and he wanted to file for a copyright under the same header. Bethesda panicked by thinking that he might make a copyright claim against their flagship Elder Scrolls series so in swift fashion they filed a pre-emptive copyright claim of their own against the new game. Notch, being a 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 grudgingly declined.
With the two parties being in the process of court actions you’d expect some at least heated stance with one another – unfortunately though this is not the case.
Below is a picture of the "Notched Pickaxe" which has a striking resemblance to the tool of choice in Minecraft and can supposedly be found in Skyrim's ‘Throat of the World’ area. It’s nice to know that, even in the midst of all the copyright issues, game developers can still pay homage to each others' work.
I should mention that this has not been confirmed as an Easter Egg for Skyrim and several people have pointed out that there were ‘Notched’ items in Oblivion too. I hope to go and find this Pickaxe for myself later as I have thus far been unable to confirm its inclusion.
As usual please let me know if you have any views on the above or have found this item for yourself.
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