Bethesda, the developer of the Elder Scrolls series (better known to many as Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim, etc.), doesn’t like the idea of Scrolls being used as the name for the new game from Minecraft maker Mojang. It likes it so little, in fact, that it’s gone ahead and threatened litigation if the name isn’t swapped out for something else. Bethesda is obviously a much bigger company with more resources to fight a legal battle, but Mojang doesn’t think it needs to come to that. It’s got a simple idea for how to solve the dispute.
Quake.
Specifically, Quake 3. Minecraft creator Markus “Notch” Persson authored a new blog post today, having spent some time away to celebrate his new marriage. Seeing that Bethesda hasn’t decided to drop the lawsuit in light of the negative publicity it’s brought itself, Persson recalled a scene from Game of Thrones (I won’t spoil it; it’s too great a show to risk doing that to anyone) and suggested that Bethesda and Mojang have a fight to the death in Quake 3.
