I've rambled plenty about The Elder Scrolls Online (aka TESO for the sake of brevity) in the past, so it only makes sense that I try to talk more readers into checking it out now that it's turning 10 years old, which is like ten times the period during which the average live-service AAA slop stays relevant nowadays. This isn't a sponsored post, I promise.
]]>Bethesda has dropped an update for Skyrim Special Edition which adds a new paid mods page called Creations, among other things.
]]>The latest freebies have arrived on the Epic Games Store, one of which is a rather fine MMO, and the other has you investigating a range of murders.
]]>The United States' Federal Trade Commission (FTC)'s trial with Microsoft continues to be a source of all sorts of juicy corporate tidbits, the sort that never gets discussed in public. The trial, which is currently underway, was initiated after the FTC successfully managed to win a temporary restraining order that brought the company's preposed merger with Activision Blizzard to a halt.
]]>In 2006, The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion developer Bethesda did what many at the time thought was unthinkable. The company put an in-game item on sale for real-world money, in a full-price game. It was a cosmetic horse armour set for $2.50.
]]>It’s a pretty good week to be a Bethesda fan, because now we have two very important dates to mark in the calendar: firstly, on June 11th, we’re getting the much promised Starfield focused direct (which was recently reported to be imminent, but I guess we’re going to have to wait until the magical E3 period for any more reveals, like usual).
]]>It's been 12 years, now, since Bethesda launched its all-timer of an RPG. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim has a seemingly endless appeal, and as of 2016, the publisher announced that the game had racked up an impressive 30 million sales.
]]>The team at ZeniMax Online Studios announced the upcoming content slate for The Elder Scrolls Online overnight.
]]>Skyrim modders are to bring DLSS, FSR2, and XeSS upscaling to the Anniversary and Special Editions of the game.
]]>As we keep waiting for The Elder Scrolls 6 and – way before that – Starfield, us veteran Elder Scrolls fans keep wondering about where Bethesda might take the long-awaited sixth mainline entry of their big fantasy series.
]]>I, Breton sorcerer Vidal von Astral, watch over my partner – an Argonian assassin going by 'Lizzy' – as she sneaks downstairs into the wine cellar of a bustling tavern. I say 'sneak,' but really the archaic-yet-endearing Morrowind animation system and digitigrade structure of her lizardy legs means that she's slowly bounding like a Saturday morning cartoon character who's trying to telegraph to the viewer that they're up to something devious. The guards seem confused, watching her go down and around the corner and yet not committing to following her – perhaps there's more deceit to this comical Argonian stealth than meets the non-NPC eye.
]]>In creative writing class, they teach you: show, don’t tell. Todd Howard and his clan at Bethesda Game Studios obviously took notes on that, because Skyrim is all about stumbling into enigmatic scenes and being drawn to figure out what took place here. It shows you a dead body somewhere unusual, an incongruous set of objects around it, and it knows you’re pulled into the narrative in a way that hearing an NPC telling you about it wouldn’t achieve.
]]>Right now we’re all sitting on our hands, waiting for The Elder Scrolls 6. Wondering what delights it might hold for us. Whether the NPCs will be able to simultaneously move, talk, and come off like something close to humans. Dreaming of a world full of undiscovered quests, un-plundered chests, pristine sweetrolls.
]]>As we wait for The Elder Scrolls 6 to materialize one way or another, and endure a now-even-longer wait for Starfield, The Elder Scrolls Online remains Bethesda’s flagship all-you-can-eat title. And it’s not even developed by Bethesda Game Studios.
]]>Looks like Switch users may finally get their hands on Skyrim Anniversary Edition if a listing from the Taiwan Digital Game Rating Committee is any indication.
]]>Betheda has made a few of its older games free to play on Steam, so if you haven't given them a try yet, you no longer have an excuse not to.
]]>My Skyrim doesn’t look like yours. It doesn’t even look like my Skyrim from five years ago. Thanks to a furiously talented and prolific modding community, the land and everything in it have evolved over time, deepening in detail and beauty at a steady rate for over a decade, one uncompressed 16K texture pack at a time.
]]>By Azura, is The Elder Scrolls 6 far away! With Starfield set to arrive near the end of the year, the sixth main entry in Bethesda’s iconic saga might as well not exist right now. Of course, we’re not short on massive open worlds – especially now that SSDs are taking over and rewriting what can be done when it comes to level design – but you just can’t fill that Skyrim-shaped hole, can you?
]]>I grew up reading fantasy books written by people who gave their initials instead of their first names (J.R.R. Tolkien, C.J. Cherryh, R.A. Salvatore, M.C. Hammer, etc). I think this is why I fell so deeply in love with The Elder Scrolls games Oblivion and, later, Skyrim. These open worlds allowed me to completely immerse myself in worlds with everything that I adored from those stories. Swords! Magic! Elves! Dragons! Weird and wonderful creatures! Epic quests!
]]>When Daggerfall first released in 1996, I wasn’t aware of it because I was 12 and therefore incapable of growing a convincing beard. In the decades since, it’s become something of a legend; jostling with its direct sequel, Morrowind, for premium position as the quintessential Elder Scrolls game that none of the others can live up to in the minds of its proponents. It’s a curious juxtaposition – they are both instantly recognisable as Elder Scrolls games, but Morrowind is quite antithetical to Daggerfall in its approach, deliberately so. Their differences reflect a fundamental shift, that’s still ongoing, in what a role-playing video game is: an adaptation of the tabletop experience, or a simulation of life in a fantasy world?
]]>There’s been some big news as of late in the world of Elder Scrolls Online. Legacy of the Bretons, the next expansion due to release for the popular MMORPG, received a lushous new announcement trailer setting up the events that’ll take place in the upcoming content.
]]>Xbox boss Phil Spencer has, once again, hinted that Bethesda‘s Elder Scrolls 6 will be an Xbox console exclusive. Whenever it launches, that is.
]]>The Elder Scrolls 6 was announced as being in development at E3 2018 which is was a bit out of character for Bethesda as it tends not to announce a game so far in advance. The company, however, wanted to assure fans the game was in the works.
]]>Skyrim: Anniversary Edition is out on Noveber 11, and Bethesda has provided pricing for the latest release of the title which turns 10 next week.
]]>Bethesda has announced a new version of Skyrim at QuakeCon 2021, in celebration of the game's 10-year anniversary. The new version, dubbed Skyrim Anniversary Edition, arrives November 11 on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S - with free upgrades on new consoles.
]]>While we already know it's going to be a while before The Elder Scrolls 6 is released, it appears it may be a bit longer than we have hoped.
]]>We chat to the series' co-creator as we look back on one of that generation's defining games and those that came before it.
]]>Starting tomorrow, 20 games from Bethesda will be available through Xbox Game Pass.
]]>The Xbox giant has created a brand new division for Bethesda's parent.
]]>New content dropping for Bethesda's MMO in June.
]]>If you're eager to get your hands on a remake of Bethesda Game Studios’ iconic RPG, Oblivion, an unofficial fan remake may be your best bet.
]]>And you can still earn Trophies.
]]>But it's probably The Elder Scrolls Online, who knows.
]]>Looks like players are in for one hell of a time.
]]>In a move that's shaken the games industry, Microsoft has announced that it's acquiring ZeniMax Media – the parent company of Bethesda Softworks.
]]>The Beyond Skyrim team recently unveiled a brand new trailer featuring our very first look at Black Marsh.
]]>A new gameplay trailer for Skywind, the upcoming fan-made remaster of Morrowind built in Skyrim's engine, recently dropped online, offering us a fresh look at what to expect.
]]>Guards in Skyrim appear to have decided that they don't need to wear uniforms anymore and are legging it around Markarth and Solitude in their underwear.
]]>If you have a lecturer that really, really annoys you, you could probably get back at them by writing all of your assignments in Skyrim Dovah, aka Dragon language.
]]>Skyrim giants have been clubbing players into the stratosphere for almost nine years, so it's about time someone figured out how to return the favour.
]]>Morrowind Rebirth, a mod that reimagines the classic Elder Scrolls game as a newer title, recently received a huge overhaul that totally revamps its world.
]]>If you're even remotely familiar with The Elder Scrolls, you'll likely remember the Adoring Fan from Oblivion, who is a very enthusiastic follower of the Imperial City's Grand Champion.
]]>The Forgotten City once won a Writer's Guild of America award back when it was known as an excellent Skyrim mod - now it's being designed as its own game, and is due to launch this winter.
]]>Oblivion launched way back in 2006, but it's still a formidably popular comfort title for a significant amount of Elder Scrollsers - mostly because of how hilariously broken it is.
]]>There's no such thing as too many mods when it comes to Skyrim.
]]>Beloved videogame streamer Shirley “Skyrim Grandma” Curry is pulling back from the public eye after receiving a small number of negative and patronizing comments that have affected her health.
]]>Earlier today, Bethesda officially took The Elder Scrolls: Blades out of Early Access before confirming that it is now available to download for Nintendo Switch.
]]>Bethesda fans have taken to Reddit in order to argue about Elder Scrolls dicks.
]]>The Elder Scrolls Online players will be heading to Skyrim this spring to deal with a pesky vampire problem.
]]>Despite its astronomical success, Bethesda Game Studios’ illustrious RPG Oblivion has never received the remaster treatment - at least not officially.
]]>Bethesda has put development of its free-to-play card game The Elder Scrolls: Legends on hold for the foreseeable future.
]]>As you might have probably guessed, The Elder Scrolls: Blades is not releasing on Switch this year as previously announced.
]]>Massively Multiplayer game The Elder Scrolls Online: Elsweyr will be coming to Google Stadia.
]]>We have a stack of free codes for new and current players of Elder Scrolls Legends, Bethesda's strategy card game set across the land of Tamriel.
]]>Cyberpunk 2077 doesn’t need to paint everything in neon - the glow-up of the RPG is clear to see. Over the last decade the entire genre has undergone a steady but significant transformation that’s worth taking a moment to celebrate.
]]>The latest Elder Scrolls game for mobile devices is coming to Switch later this year.
]]>The Elder Scrolls Online has hit a rather large milestone.
]]>Starfield is coming out before The Elder Scrolls 6 because Bethesda Games Studios really wanted to create something new alongside its popular RPG franchises.
]]>You might have to wait a few more years for a proper follow-up to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, but if you're itching for more adventures in Tamriel (who isn't?), Bethesda revealed the first ever tabletop game set in its fantasy universe.
]]>Bethesda’s behemoth RPG, Skyrim, is still relevant today. At this very moment, thousands of people are engaging colossal dragons in combat, while thousands more are likely plundering trinkets and thingamajigs from the depths of murky dungeons, ravaged by legions of the undead.
]]>The Elder Scrolls: Blades is out of beta and now available through early access.
]]>The Elder Scrolls: Online's newest class is coming in the next major expansion, and here's a peek at what it's capable of.
]]>Bethesda promises further rebalances and will be removing direct-purchase artifacts.
]]>This week, in "does it run Skyrim?" we have a Galaxy Watch that is definitely not running the game, but why not follow suit and fool your friends? Or just the real dumb ones, at least.
]]>Bethesda's mobile action-rpg tops the App store with one million downloads following its early access launch.
]]>Shirley Curry, known in the gaming community as Skyrim Grandma, is going to be an NPC in The Elder Scrolls 6.
]]>Well, that headline is disappointing to be sure. The Elder Scrolls 6, we get. But Starfield? Come on, Todd.
]]>Those invited to the early access launch of The Elder Scrolls: Blades can now start playing.
]]>Bethesda has officially announced the next major expansion for The Elder Scrolls Online: Elsweyr.
]]>There's been a lot of talk about the massive mess that is Fallout 76 - but with its other beloved RPG property, Bethesda's online efforts are best-in-class.
]]>Bethesda has announced that The Elder Scrolls: Blades won't be released in 2018.
]]>This article first appeared on USgamer, a partner publication of VG247. Some content, such as this article, has been migrated to VG247 for posterity after USgamer's closure - but it has not been edited or further vetted by the VG247 team.
]]>The Elder Scrolls 6 is a long,long ways off, we know that for certain, and Bethesda has reiterated just how far off.
]]>QuakeCon 2018 is going on this weekend, and you can watch all the announcements here and look over the full schedule.
]]>The Elder Scrolls Online players will be fighting fighting werewolves starting next week, and this fall, they will travel to the Black Marsh.
]]>Looks like a Morrowind remaster is out of the question. At least for the foreseeable future.
]]>There's a reason why Bethesda is happy to bring Skyrim to any platform that can support it.
]]>"If you want us to stop releasing it, stop buying it."
]]>Bethesda wants to develop all kinds of games, not drop single-player for the latest trends.
]]>Bethesda is not actively working on Skyrim mod support for Nintendo Switch so it can produce ports like Fallout Shelter instead.
]]>The release of Skyrim: Very Special Edition for Alexa technically means you can play the game using a $6000 smart toilet.
]]>Todd Howard has, inevitably, been quizzed on how far along Starfield and The Elder Scrolls 6 are, giving us some insight into how long we might be waiting.
]]>With all of Bethesda's big E3 2018 news out of the way, here's a round-up of everything that might have fallen through the cracks.
]]>Elder Scrolls Blades aims to be the most accessible Elder Scrolls title imaginable - one available on every system that can handle it.
]]>They didn't say much about it, but The Elder Scrolls 6 is happening.
]]>Holy s**t, Bethesda just nuked E3.
]]>The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim Special Edition is free to play on Steam and Xbox One this weekend.
]]>Here's a quick look at the huge new zone added in the latest expansion for The Elder Scrolls Online.
]]>This article first appeared on USgamer, a partner publication of VG247. Some content, such as this article, has been migrated to VG247 for posterity after USgamer's closure - but it has not been edited or further vetted by the VG247 team.
]]>Those interested in The Elder Scrolls Online: Summerset will have various options to choose when picking the game up.
]]>Elder Scrolls Online players will travel to Summerset Isle, home of the Altmer.
]]>Just a quick news brief for you.
]]>Bethesda has dated its June E3 2018 showcase.
]]>The Elder Scrolls Online has hit a milestone of 10 million players, and is celebrating in a few different ways.
]]>Skyrim has hit Switch and VR this week. Whether you're a fresh-faced adventurer or a battle-worn Dragonborn, you're in for a treat.
]]>Getting married in Skyrim is simple compared to some of the game’s other systems, not to mention real life.
]]>The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim lands on Switch tomorrow, so let's compare it with the Xbox One X version.
]]>This article first appeared on USgamer, a partner publication of VG247. Some content, such as this article, has been migrated to VG247 for posterity after USgamer's closure - but it has not been edited or further vetted by the VG247 team.
]]>The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim continues to expand on new platforms with the release of the Nintendo Switch version.
]]>Starting today through November 5, Xbox Live Gold players on Xbox One can try The Elder Scrolls Online for free.
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