The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind

Todd Howard on IGN Unfiltered

Todd Howard, Bethesda Game Studios’ director and one of the most recognizable video game developers on the planet, participated in the latest installment of IGN Unfiltered, a monthly video interview show. As a result, we can now check out roughly…

The Elder Scrolls Retrospective – 25 Years in Tamriel

In order to celebrate the 25th anniversary of The Elder Scrolls series, Bethesda has already ran a series of promotional sales and giveaways. But now we can also check out a special retrospective video filled with developer stories, community showcases,…

What Makes Good Video Game Lore?

Lore. Love it or hate it, but at this point an entire library’s worth of text and background information is pretty much a prerequisite for any ambitious RPG. And if you’re going to do it anyway, might as well do…

The Elder Scrolls – Major Events in the Timeline

Whenever people praise Bethesda’s The Elder Scrolls series, they never fail to mention its worldbuilding and lore. If you’re one of those people, or if you’re simply curious about the fictional history behind these games, you may be interested in…

The History of Bethesda Game Studios Video Documentary

Whether or not you’re a fan of Bethesda Game Studios and their style of open-world RPG, it’s hard to argue the studio’s impact on the video game industry, and especially its RPG-themed corner, what with them having the rights to…

IGN’s Best RPG Worlds

Worldbuilding is an important aspect of RPGs and as such, IGN offers us their take on what the best RPG worlds are, in a convenient top 10 format. Each entry gets a short description and a spot in the accompanying…

Richard Cobbett on Shared Universes

Richard Cobbett spends the majority of his latest RPG Scrollbars column talking about all the times video games, and RPGs in particular, made neat little references to one another, and how in this day and age of shared universes, this…