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Report: Steam's 'most popular' games tallied, around 37% never played News

Ars Technica has sifted through public data from Steam to build a list of the most popular games owned on the platform. The most popular? DOTA 2 with around 25.9 million users. Playing second fiddle is Team Fortress 2 with 20.3 million. The top twenty games are dominated by Valve, although Skyrim and Civilization V squeezed in. There's another interesting stat.

Over 80% of support emails 'black market' related in The Elder Scrolls Online News

The state of Tamriel isn't quite as rosy as Zenimax Online would like as The Elder Scrolls Online is under siege from gold-farming bots, and plagued with exploits. According to director Matt Firor over 85% of support tickets are related to 'black market' offences and bots are widely stalking bosses for loot in open dungeons. They have a "daily running battle" with them.

Obsidian "continue to call up" publishers for RPGs, "any opportunity" for Star Wars News

A Skyrim-sized RPG from Obsidian Entertainment? Co-founder Feargus Urquhart would love that kind of project, and it's why publishers continue 'making sense' for those types of games as they cost tens of millions. Barring Star Citizen, crowd-funding just can't funnel that kind of money into huge RPGs. Urquhart admits the studio keep badgering publishers for work on big names.

The Elder Scrolls Online receives new patch, focuses on quest blockers and bots News

A new patch for The Elder Scrolls Online has been released by developer Zenimax Online Studios and it tackles more quest related issues and blocks, as well as improving the game's stability and performance. Another area of focus are the legions of bots farming the MMO and gold spammers. TESO has been under siege by 'black market' activity, as they account for over 80% of support tickets.

ZeniMax issue 5 days game time for Elder Scrolls Online subscribers News

Director Matt Firor for The Elder Scrolls Online has announced ZeniMax Online will be issuing 5 additional days game time to all subscribers who are registered before 8.00pm EDT / 1.00am BST today. This is to "recognise that some of the launch issues affected" the early experience of the MMO, cutting into the 30 days trial period. Firor also outlines what changes are ahead.

Zenimax Online respond to Elder Scrolls Online criticism News

In a new blog post on the official website, The Elder Scrolls Online director Matt Firor has responded to concerns and criticism over the launch of Zenimax Online's fantasy MMO. He says that the developers are continuing to work on improving the game, dealing with gold farmers and other cheats, and "working diligently to keep ESO balanced, stable, and fresh for veteran players."

First major update to The Elder Scrolls Online due this week News

Zenimax has confirmed the first major update for their newly launched MMO The Elder Scrolls Online will be arriving this week, tomorrow or Friday. It features the new Craglorn Adventure Zone with new story and quests. It offers four-player quests for groups and the new twelve-player Trials. Testing for the update is now wrapping up and Zenimax plan updates every four-to-six weeks.

Morrowind to Skyrim conversion mod Skywind still looking for voice actors News

The good folks behind the wildly ambitious mod Skywind, which remakes the entirety of The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind in the Skyrim engine, are still looking for contributors to the project. Specifically they need voice actors to help record the tonnes of audio dialogue in the game, and volunteers to listen to those tonnes of voice samples and pick the best ones out. Here's a video from the team explaining more.

Elder Scrolls Online's European server migration kicks off today News

Fans of The Elder Scrolls Online (I know there's some out there) might want to find something else to do today. The European megaserver migration Zenimax promised earlier this year will take place from 1:00PM BST until 10:00PM BST today. During the process European players will be unable to log in to the server. The North American server will obviously not be affected.

Zenimax layoffs won't affect The Elder Scrolls Online, claims Bethesda News

Zenimax Online's staff have just suffered a round of layoffs, but publisher Bethesda says the situation won't affect the continuing development of MMO The Elder Scrolls Online. "As is the norm for games of this type, we had ramped up a large workforce to develop a game of vast scale, and ramped up our customer service to handle the expected questions and community needs of The Elder Scrolls Online at launch," Bethesda's PR head Pete Hines told Joystiq.

Fourth Elder Scrolls Online content patch goes live, adds new Trial and an Arena challenge News

The fourth Elder Scrolls Online content patch has gone live, opening up the highest reaches of Upper Craglorn for you to go adventuring about in. There you'll find a new Trial, the Sanctum Ophidia, which has you face off against the "trolls and other nightmares" of the Scaled Court. I don't know what any of that means, but it all sounds lovely. You'll also be able to visit the fighting pits of the Dragonstar Arena.