Bethesda announces the voice cast for Elder Scrolls Online. Among others, John cleese (Monty Python and the Holy Grail), Bill Nighy (Pirates of the Caribbean), Kate Beckinsale (The Aviator, Pearl Harbor), Michael Gambon (Harry Potter) and others announced.
Massively (Joystiq) article here
Official press release here
Over four million people have signed up for beta accounts for The Elder Scrolls(R) Online and in the last 48 hour testing session, over 300,000 individuals played during the course of that session. Bethesda Softworks, and ZeniMax Online Studios, has announced that The Elder Scrolls(R) Online will release April 4, 2014.
For more information, including a new trailer with gameplay footage, visit http://www.forbes.com/sites/danielnyegriffiths/2013/12/11/its-online-the-elder-scrolls-online-release-date-announced/
Since 1998, an independent group of 30 leading North American media outlets (including Associated Press, USA Today, Wired.com, Yahoo! Video Games, and IGN) covering the videogame industry has presented the “Best of E3 Awards.”
The Elder Scrolls(R) Online wins the 2013 E3 Game Critics Award for Best Online Role Playing Game. It will be available in spring 2014, and available on PCs, Macs, Playstation 4 and Xbox One.
Watch the E3 Teaser Trailer here: http://elderscrollsonline.com/en/media/videos/579
For more information about the award, visit http://www.examiner.com/article/zenimax-and-bethesda-pull-accolades and http://www.gamecriticsawards.com/winners.html
Dishonored, a new stealth assasin videogame developed by Arkane Studios takes top honors at the BAFTA awards.
This award caps off dozens of additional accolades, including Best Action Adventure Game at the 2012 Spike Video Game Awards, the Audience Choice Award at the 2013 Game Developer’s Choice awards, and Best Overall Action Game and Best PC Action Game in IGN’s Best of 2012 awards. Playstation Official Magazine named it their Game of the Year, PC Magazine named Dishonored Best Original Game, and 2012 Yahoo! Games awarded it Best Action/Adventure Game.
To watch the Dishonored gameplay footage video, click here.
For more information, visit http://www.pcgamer.com/2013/03/06/dishonored-takes-best-game-at-baftas/, http://www.forbes.com/sites/games/2012/12/11/the-best-video-games-of-2012/2/, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21677124 and http://awards.bafta.org/award/2013/games