When the Metaverse’s sales pitch did the rounds in 2022 and 2023, anyone who has been playing MMOs like The Elder Scrolls Online likely had the same thought: “Hold on, I can already do this in a game that lets me have legs.” It’s not exactly been panning out, either. Meta has lost billions trying […]
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The Elder Scrolls Online doesn’t always get the credit it’s due for being a genuinely good MMO that’s been putting out regular expansions and new storylines for a decade. Even though I mained it for a few years myself, I’m guilty of sometimes overlooking it in the shadow of Skyrim’s eternal relevance and flashier MMOs. […]
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Earlier this month, I had the pleasure of talking with a few of the asset wizards behind The Elder Scrolls Online’s player housing community. And they are, in a word, powerful. They’ve been creating everything from ice cream parlours, to pachinko machines, to just straight-up Howl’s Moving Castle—all by clipping premade game assets into each […]
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The Elder Scrolls Online is having its 10th birthday this week—to celebrate, I was invited to have a chat both the game’s creative director Rich Lambert, as well as several players deep in the housing community’s paint. To be clear, I haven’t played this game since 2019, but I’ve always been sinking time into at […]
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The problem with Skyrim is that it’s all too permanent. Your swords, your armour, your sweetrolls, they all just hang around forever until you drop them, sell them off, or eat them (not the swords and armour; don’t eat your swords and armour). It’s a plastic-fantastic world where nothing ever ends, and buddy, I’ve had […]
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