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Former Elder Scrolls Online chief confirms Microsoft's 2025 bloodbath drove his departure from ZeniMax: 'Project Blackbird was the game I had waited my entire career to create'

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The Elder Scrolls Online
Genres · rpg
Release · Apr 4, 2014
Developer · ZeniMax Online Studios
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