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The Elder Scrolls Online invites players to go it alone with the solo dungeons arriving in Season 2
Players have been soloing dungeons in The Elder Scrolls Online for ages, but as a general rule that isn’t the intentional way to play the game. But what if it was? Why, then you’d have the new solo dungeons arriving to the game as part of its second season on October 21st. The Moon Hunter Keep […]
The Elder Scrolls Online puts the spotlight on changes to the Tome system
It’s possible that you haven’t been playing close attention to the Tamriel Tomes system in The Elder Scrolls Online, so you might have missed some of the bigger changes to the system with the most recent updates. But they’re important changes, hence a new announcement shining a light on them. For...
Elder Scrolls Online is prioritizing combat less for content that has you "looking in every nook"
The Elder Scrolls Online is undergoing a bit of a "renaissance" this year and beyond, as the MMO's developers put it – and much of that involves introducing new types of content that break the game's old formula, so to speak. 2026 has not been easy for ZeniMax Online Studios with Microsoft's plan...
After 12 Years, The Elder Scrolls Online's Player Count Is Making Its 'Renaissance' Hard to Ignore
The Elder Scrolls Online's rising player count backs up talk of a renaissance as the 12-year-old MMO breaks out of its old formula.
The Elder Scrolls Online has sea battles now, so we asked Zenimax how they work
ESO’s High Seas of Tamriel event adds ship-to-ship and underwater combat, so I asked the Zenimax devs why and how it did such a thing.
The Elder Scrolls Online to undergo "renaissance" as devs change what's "been going for 12 years"
The Elder Scrolls Online is changing as ZeniMax Online Studios moves the MMO further away from its old annual DLC formula toward new content drops that incorporate a greater variety of playstyles – a "renaissance" of sorts, if you will. It's no secret that The Elder Scrolls Online has suffered a...
The Elder Scrolls Online to undergo "renaissance" as devs change what's "been going for 12 years"
"Games haven't stood still," after all
7 Reasons to Play Elder Scrolls Online Right Now
The Elder Scrolls Online includes a lot of storytelling and lore that is actually canon, but it's also a great MMO experience in other ways.
New Official The Elder Scrolls Release Has Ship Combat and Magical Labyrinth
A brand-new The Elder Scrolls Online release features underwater exploration, ship combat, and an ever-changing magical labyrinth. While fans have been eagerly waiting for The Elder Scrolls 6 news, the game is still being worked on at Bethesda, and it's likely that no significant information will...
The Elder Scrolls Online: Seek Sunken Treasures During the High Seas of Tamriel Event
The post The Elder Scrolls Online: Seek Sunken Treasures During the High Seas of Tamriel Event appeared first on XBOX Wire.
The Elder Scrolls Online is partly why Skyrim never got a Fallout: New Vegas-style spin-off, says Bethesda veteran
Why did The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim never receive a spin-off like Bethesda's Fallout 3 did, with Fallout: New Vegas? According to Skyrim co-lead designer Kurt Kuhlmann, it's because of The Elder Scrolls Online. Speaking to FRVR (via VGC), the 20-year studio veteran said the MMORPG essentially kept...
The Elder Scrolls Online ‘Took The Heat Off’ Of Calls For A Fallout: New Vegas-Style Skyrim Spin-Off
A Bethesda veteran speculates about the lack of Elder Scrolls games
The Elder Scrolls never got a spin-off like Fallout: New Vegas because Todd Howard is protective of the IP, former dev says
The Elder Scrolls Online "took the heat off" fan requests for a spin-off game, he says
The Elder Scrolls Online's devs are pushing through hard times after layoffs and delays: 'We didn't want to rush to just hit a date'
The Elder Scrolls Online's developers have had a rough couple of years, starting with the scrapping of Project Blackbird in July 2025, which also led to 62 employees being laid off. Then, in July of this year, Xbox's reset tore into the studio's numbers, with a whopping 213 employees laid off from...
The Elder Scrolls Online's devs are pushing through hard times after layoffs and delays: 'We didn't want to rush to just hit a date'
"We still love this game."
Interview: Elder Scrolls Online on Update 51’s experimental features and shaking up the MMO’s formula
Sometimes in MMORPGs, you’ve just got to take some swings. Try something that’s new and unknown to your players. Get a little bit experimental, or even extremely experimental, with your formula. That’s absolutely the throughline for The Elder Scrolls Online and the stuff that’s coming with its...
New Elder Scrolls Release Officially Beats The Elder Scrolls 6 to Series-First Gameplay
The Elder Scrolls Online is officially beating The Elder Scrolls 6 to the punch with unique combat gameplay never seen before in the series. The Elder Scrolls Online, The Elder Scrolls 6, and Bethesda as a whole have been dealing with the consequences of Xbox's restructuring, which cut thousands of...
The Elder Scrolls Online looks forward to its next update at the end of September in its new survival guide
So The Elder Scrolls Online has offered players its survival guide for September, and the good and bad news is that very little is happening in September until the end. Like, Golden Pursuits continues until September 17th, but after that? Nothing at all is happening. Well… until September 28th,...
Bethesda Is Giving Away Free Copies of The Elder Scrolls Online with This New Fantasy Novel
Bethesda has announced it's partnering with a UK publisher, Tor, to bundle free PC copies of The Elder Scrolls Online with Travis Baldree's new paperback release of Brigands & Breadknives, the third entry into Baldree's "Legends and Lattes" fantasy series. The longstanding MMORPG, which has been...
Bethesda Is Giving Away Free Copies of The Elder Scrolls Online with This New Fantasy Novel
You can currently score a free PC copy of The Elder Scrolls Online—plus an exclusive in-game pet—with paperback copies of Travis Baldree’s new fantasy novel "Brigands & Breadknives".
The Elder Scrolls Online revives the free trial for its subscription membership through August 27
Are you subscribed to The Elder Scrolls Online’s optional subscription, ESO Plus? If not, why not? Don’t just gesture at the past few months of awful news about the game. That’s cheating; use your words. Actually, don’t bother. We can’t hear you even if you do. In any case, you’ll be able to see...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO feels older than it is to you?
For some reason, I always think of The Elder Scrolls Online as being an older game than it is. Now, to be clear, I’m not talking in terms of “that came out in 1998” or something, but in my mind it’s a 2011 game. The thing is that I also factually know that is wrong. I know it […]
First-Ever The Elder Scrolls Release of Its Kind Officially Available Now
The Elder Scrolls franchise is getting a new mount that's the first of its kind. The Elder Scrolls Online has been traversing a rough patch lately due to the Microsoft and Xbox layoffs affecting a reportedly big chunk of the team at ZeniMax Online Studios, ZOS for short. The company is going...
Elder Scrolls Online has begun public testing part of Update 52, now due out September 28
One of the major updates originally planned to launch in 2026 for The Elder Scrolls Online was update 51, and in spite of all the layoffs, it is still coming, with only a slight delay. And ahead of that launch on September 28th, ZeniMax Online has begun testing of the update as well as future […]
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