Guild Launch's Nominees for the 2014 Dragon Slayer Awards: Best Community...
It is that time of year again, the time where all your DKP is counted up and distributed across the 'Best Community Managers' of 2014. For three years now, our sister-site, Guild Launch has hosted the...
View ArticleElder Scrolls Online Nominated for Best Promotional Effort by a Game for the...
Guild Launch, GameSkinny's sister site, is holding the annual Dragon Slayer Awards for the best of the best amongst the video game community. For the 'Best Promotional Effort by a Game' category, Elder...
View ArticleGuild Launch's 2014 Dragon Slayer Awards: Best Promotional Effort by a Game
Every year, Guild Launch, the site that helped spawn GameSkinny, puts on the Dragon Slayer Awards for the best of the best in the gaming realm. This year, it's all about fans, comics, indie games,...
View ArticleElder Scrolls Online Developer Faces Lay Offs
Zenimax Online Studios laid off a number of employees this past Wednesday. Pete Hines, VP of PR and Marketing for Bethesda, said, As is the norm for games of this type, we had ramped up a large...
View ArticleBethesda Announces Tales of the Dead Contest for Elder Scrolls Online
Any Pirate worth his sea salt could tell you "Dead men tell no tales," however, Bethesda's ESO is challenging us to help an unfortunate soul by asking us to tell their story. Bethesda has always been...
View ArticleStinkyboard Foot Controller Review: My New Favorite Piece of Tech
Note: Stinkyboard manufacturer, Stelulu, gave GS a board for review purposes. I'm a small gamer in a small space. There's a lot of great tech that I have to pass up on because of a tiny desk and a tiny...
View ArticleMMOs in 2014: The Good, The Bad, and The Future
2014 saw tons of MMO releases and news. I'm here to share the best and worst of the 2014 releases as well as the best of what's to come in the next year or so. Each category will count down the top...
View ArticleBethesda Team Discusses Upcoming Free-to-Play model and Console Release of...
Wednesday Bethesda announced a new subscription-free model for The Elder Scrolls Online and took to Twitch to share the details of the new system, as well as the upcoming console release for...
View ArticleTransparency: Why Buy-To-Play Is The Best Option For MMOs
I cannot tell you the number of times I’ve had to decide between one MMO subscription and another. When World of Warcraft released, I had to decide between that subscription and Star Wars Galaxies. I...
View ArticleTransparency: How World of Warcraft Made MMORPGs Do Progression Wrong
I bet most of us would raise our hands when asked if we’ve played World of Warcraft. It’s a huge game, and it’s really well made. I think most of us would raise our hands again if asked if we ever left...
View ArticleESO Datamined (Part 1): "Okay" Says Zenimax Online
It's only been a week since ESO: Tamriel Unlimted launched, and already Zenimax Online Studios is looking to expand it’s PvP servers. Once again they're dealing with Megaserver lag due to the influx of...
View ArticleESO Data Mined Part 2: What About PVP?
When asked about what major PVP update players would like to see in ESO, the resounding answer would be: Imperial City. While PVP in ESO has been pretty fun, it does feel like a whole lot is missing....
View ArticleElder Scrolls Online Celebrates One Year Anniversary
Bethesda and ZeniMax's Elder Scrolls Online was published April 4th, 2014, and the MMO is celebrating the one year anniversary. Being a frequent and long-time player of the game, it has been a pretty...
View ArticlePreorder Bonus Gives Elder Scrolls Online Players More Character Creation...
Gamers who preorder The Elder Scrolls Online: Tamriel Unlimited will have the option of playing as any race/alliance combination, publisher Bethesda Softworks announced on Tuesday. Those who do not...
View ArticleTransparency: Are Guilds Becoming Too Big?
A common question that all MMO players have to eventually ask themselves is “what do I want in a guild?” Of course, many of us ask this question without realizing that is what we are asking. We might...
View ArticleWhat You Missed: Bethesda E3 Conference
Bethesda’s E3 press conference was highly anticipated by everyone and their mother in the games industry. Fallout 4 was almost going to be a given after the trailer last week, and the DOOM remake had...
View ArticleAmazon Prime Day bitterly disappoints
To celebrate its twentieth anniversary, online giant Amazon is having Prime Day. They put almost every type of product (video games included) on sale for one day only on July 15th. Many gamers were...
View ArticleElder Scrolls Online Imperial City Details Revealed
Coming up next month, Elder Scrolls Online will release its first expansion pack, Imperial City. PC and Mac users will have access on August 31st. However, console users will have to wait about two...
View ArticleTransparency: 5 things developers really mean by "it's too hard"
I’ve had it. I’m done with letting developers tell me that something is too hard. It gives me zero insight into why something isn’t being done in a game. On top of that, it makes the developers look...
View Article7 of the most beautiful soundtracks in Video Games
I don't know about you, but half my iPhone's music library has about 10GB worth of music that has come straight from video games. Games have come a long way from just being something you do for fun. We...
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