Our latest coverage of Elder Scrolls Online.
Just when the Elder Scrolls Online team thought that they were in the clear, a new set of login issues suddenly popped up on the European megaserver. The team promptly took the server offline for emergency maintenance and reported the issue fixed nearly an hour-and-a-half later, although some players still report surprisingly-long queue times after the servers went back online. [...]
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Elder Scrolls Online is celebrating its 8th anniversary this week with the return of Tamriel’s annual Anniversary Jubilee from April 7th and will run until April 19th. This year’s anniversary celebration will feature the usual array of activities, including Chef Donolon’s quest which will reward players with the Jubilee Cake that grants a 2-hour 100% XP boost whenever players grab [...]
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Creepy court jesters are once again making the rounds in Elder Scrolls Online as the annual Jester’s Festival returns to Tamriel for a whole week of silliness. The event is now live and will run until April 7th, giving players another shot at scoring various event rewards. “During this jovial romp, you can acquire buffs to XP gains and earn [...]
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Elder Scrolls Online kicks off the Legacy of the Bretons year-long story arc on consoles as Update 33 and the Ascending Tide DLC officially goes live on Xbox and Playstation. Fortunately, launch day on consoles is going as smoothly as the team would have hoped with none of the issues that plagued the PC release earlier this month. “The first [...]
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After dealing with multiple server issues in Elder Scrolls Online earlier this week, Game Director Matt Firor sheds light on what happened in a post-mortem update on the official forums. According to Firor, the issues were caused by hardware failure rather than a problem with the recently-implemented database sharding on the PC NA server. Database sharding separates character data into [...]
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Creepy clown costumes are making a comeback in Elder Scrolls Online with the return of the annual Jester’s Festival. The event kicks off on March 31st just in time for April Fool’s Day and will run until April 7th. “During this jovial romp, you can acquire buffs to XP gains and earn event-specific rewards by completing Jester’s Festival quests. To [...]
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The launch of a major update or expansion in an MMO has always been the perfect example of Murphy’s Law in action. Anything that can go wrong will go wrong, as ZeniMax Online Studios can attest to. The studio is currently struggling to address various server problems that cropped up in Elder Scrolls Online following the release of the Ascending [...]
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Elder Scrolls Online kicks off the year-long Legacy of the Bretons narrative with the official launch of the Ascending Tide DLC. The DLC is now live on PC, Mac, and Google Stadia with two new dungeons – Coral Aerie and Shipwright’s Regret – that sets the stage for the High Isle Chapter release in June. “The new DLC opens with [...]
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ZeniMax Online is paving the way for the launch of the Elder Scrolls Online Ascending Tide DLC later this month with a new preview blog. The blog offers a preview of one of the new four-player dungeons arriving with the DLC – the Coral Aerie. “Situated along Summerset’s northern coast, the Coral Aerie’s colorful caverns and archaic Elven ruins shelter [...]
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As the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine continues to escalate and the whole world watches from the sidelines, Elder Scrolls Online players showed their support for Ukraine and protested against the war with a peaceful in-game event in Cyrodiil. Peace marches were held in the otherwise war-strewn PvP battleground all throughout yesterday in several EU servers. Warring factions marched [...]
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