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Massively Overthinking: The first 10 minutes of an MMO
So here's the thing about Elder Scrolls games: Most of them start out with the same hook. From Morrowind to Oblivion to Skyrim, you...
The Daily Grind: Is the MMO genre dead or dying – or something else entirely?
PC Gamer made waves across the MMO genre this week with an article provocatively titled "For MMO diehards, there's only one conversation: is the...
The Elder Scrolls Online’s Scalebreaker DLC is officially live for PC and Mac players
Dragons, right? What is their deal? You can find out today in the newest DLC for The Elder Scrolls Online. Scalebreaker is out today,...
First impressions of Elder Scrolls Online’s Moongrave Fane dungeon, launching with Scalebreaker today
Moongrave Fane is the name of an ancient Khajiit temple ruin - and it's also one of the dungeons releasing with The Elder Scrolls...
Elder Scrolls Online is offering free sub access and perks for everyone until Tuesday
Moonsugar? No... no moonsugar here. Just some Elder Scrolls Online.
Yep, if you've ever wanted to know what the paying customers in ESO get that...
Massively Overthinking: Morality and compelling choices in MMOs
The most recent episode of The Psychology of Video Games podcast touches on a subject we don't tackle very much: moral choices. It's an...
Elder Scrolls Online’s Elsweyr soundtrack and dragon dungeon walkthrough
Just how exceedingly foolish -- or monumentally brave -- do you have to be to willingly venture into the lair of a fussy dragon?...
The Daily Grind: Have you ever written off an MMO early on and been proven totally wrong?
When The Elder Scrolls Online first launched, I did not have high hopes for it. Indeed, I figured it was trafficking hard on the...
The ESA says a crapton of game companies are finally embracing lockbox transparency
Under pressure from no less than the US Senate, the FTC held the first of its planned video game monetization workshops today, and while...
Perfect Ten: MMOs of the apocalypse
It's the end of the world as we know it -- and for some reason, we are still gaming. I guess that your investment...
The Elder Scrolls Online brings back the Orsinium Celebration on August 8
It's been too long since you've been back to Orsinium in The Elder Scrolls Online. Or perhaps you're in Orsinium now and you'd like...
Elder Scrolls Blades patches in new enemies, challenges, and other adjustments
Since Elder Scrolls Blades is making inroads at being a bit more successful recently, it would stand to reason that the devs of the...
The Elder Scrolls Online is changing Undaunted Keys, guild trader bidding, and crafting
A number of pursuits in The Elder Scrolls Online are going to be seeing some tweaks in Update 23, the free update to the...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 231: EverQuest and Secret World prognostications
Justin and Bree discuss Elder Scrolls Online, Pagan Online, EverQuest 3, Guild Wars 2, and Worlds Adrift, with adventures in WoW, SWG, and Villagers & Heroes, plus mailbag topics on The Secret World and MMO fashion.
Tamriel Infinium: Everything we learned from Quakecon 2019’s Elder Scrolls Online panel
On Saturday, president of ZeniMax Online Studios Matt Firor and creative director of The Elder Scrolls Online Rich Lambert took the stage at Quakecon...
QuakeCon 2019: Fallout 76’s private servers and new battle royale map
During the Fallout 76 panel at QuakeCon this weekend, Bethsoft dished on some of the content upcoming for the game. Perhaps most excitingly, the...
MMO Week in Review: Wouldn’t it be awesome if Guild Wars 2’s next season were Cantha
It was a surprisingly solid week for Guild Wars 2, not so much because of one specific thing but because of the deluge: ArenaNet...
The Elder Scrolls Online’s Scalebreaker launches August 12 – check out the QuakeCon 2019 roadmap
At QuakeCon this evening, ZeniMax dropped some juicy info for Elder Scrolls Online fans.
The big news, of course, is the launch date for Scalebreaker,...
The Soapbox: The counterproductiveness of limited-time content in online games
While thoroughly enjoying playing Astroneer's special event in honor of Apollo 11's moon landing 50th anniversary that's happening now through August 31st, I was...
Tamriel Infinium: What comes after champion points in The Elder Scrolls Online?
During the Elsweyr release announcement stream for the Elder Scrolls Online earlier this summer, ZeniMax made an announcement that was somewhat buried within the...
