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The Elder Scrolls Online was Bethesda’s attempt to move into the market of the MMORPG game, using the lore of their already well-established Elder Scrolls series. It gained a lot of attention because of the name attached to it, the amount of lore that could already be found in previous Elder Scrolls titles and the idea of roaming through lands from all of those previous games combined into one huge map? All very appealing. And now it’s coming to Steam.
Announced ahead of the Quakecon weekend, the news was tweeted out from their Twitter account today, Bethesda revealed that the game was coming to the popular distribution platform this day with more details to follow later.
The game itself is universally acknowledged as being okay, if not great. A number of patches have fixed some of the worst game-breaking bugs, but like most MMOs it is a lot more fun with friends playing with you. To be honest though, some of that is down to the amount of hype around the game being very hard for a great many games to live up to. That and being a subscription-based model of game can be a big turn-off for some players.
Will you be thinking about getting TESO now that it’s coming to Steam? Tell us in the comments below!
Most gamers love special edition hardware and gadgets, they sell well to collectors and fans of the brands alike and it looks like Microsoft are again looking to cash in on this market by releasing a new special edition headset and controller. The controller and headset are the special edition armed forces and they sport a camouflage pattern. The headset unit is going to be around £50 and the controller will be £35 and it also looks like they will only be available in north America as there is no way to pre-order if you live in Europe presently.
When the Xbox one was announced there was a lot of controversy about various features, one of which was the Kinect which at the time always had to be plugged in. Microsoft went back on a lot of things during the launch stages of the console including the Kinect requirements for the console to function and then the console was released to the public. Initially all the console packages came with the Kinect but on June 9th in north America Microsoft began to sell the console without the Kinect unit and unsurprisingly they have double their sales without the Kinect unit.
Does this come as a surprise to you and would you buy the console with or without the Kinect unit?
Another optimisation snapshot has been released today by Mojang, taking a completely different path from the last snapshot’s methods of optimisation.
14w29a was released and instead of compressing time and space, this snapshot is said to ‘bend space around time’ in a step that they hope will up framerates in-game by 5 to 10%. It has done this by adding a new option to the video settings, VBO – Vertex Buffer Objects. It is listed as an experimental snapshot with the team interested in hearing mainly about problems relating to the game’s performance. And to further the experimental side of this snapshot, the b version instead ‘bends time around space’ rather than the other way round.
A small update sure, but a little more FPS is never a bad thing, especially for those of us who enjoy screen capturing our adventures and exploits in the world of blocks.
Yesterday Seattle-based studio Motiga released the trailer for their new MOBA, Gigantic.
Like typical MOBAs you have something to protect, gigantic Guardians… but unlike most MOBAs the Guardian does not stay put. It actually roams the battlefield too and can fight back against attackers. The trailer presents this very simply showing off some of what we can assume are the playable characters (I love the owl-faced one with the cat) and two Guardians in what is a very pretty art style.
