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Fan Fiction Competition — April 3rd, 2008
Another Elder Scrolls Fansite,
Chorrol.com, is holding a Fan Fiction Competition from today until the end of the month. Anyone can enter, and the prizes are actually quite good (Two Copies of Oblivion signed by Todd Howard, and a map of Shivering Isles signed by the developers). So for anyone interested in writing fan fiction, they should definitely look into this. More information about the competition can be found
here. There will be three categories for entries: short (less than 2500 words), medium (2500 to 20000), and long (20000+).
Ratwar, an administrator here on the UESP, will be helping to judge some of the entries. Good luck to anyone hoping to enter!
UESP Reaches 10,000 Articles — January 1st, 2008
Perfectly timed with the New Year, UESP hits the 10,000 legitimate article mark, according to the
Statistics page. Special thanks to all editors who helped make it happen. Happy New Year, everyone, and let's keep 20,000 in our sights for the future.
Wrye Interviewed by Bethblog — December 11th, 2007
UESP's resident monkey, namely
Wrye, is the most recent modder to be interviewed by
Bethesda Blogs. For all the details, including how to pronounce Wrye's name and his latest top secret projects, see
the interview.
Forums Anniversary Party — November 19th, 2007
To mark their second anniversary, the
UESP Forums are holding a party on
Friday, 23 November 2007 (the UESP forums were started at
Wed Nov 23, 2005 5:58 am). A four-hour window has been set aside for the party (note that all the following time periods are the same, just translated into different time zones):
Time Zone Four-Hour Window
| Hawaii | 7am–11am |
| Pacific | 9am–1pm |
| Mountain Standard Time | 10am–2pm |
| Central USA | 11am–3pm |
| Eastern USA | 12pm–4pm |
| London | 5pm–9pm |
| Paris, Berlin | 6pm–10pm |
| Helsinki, Istanbul | 7pm–11pm |
| Moscow, Riyadh | 8pm–12pm |
Join us for fun and games!
Online Elder Scrolls? — November 2nd, 2007
Over the past few months, there have been quite a few rumors about the Elder Scrolls series going online. These were started when ZeniMax Media, Bethesda's parent company formed a new division,
ZeniMax Online Studios headed by Matt Firor, a developer with experience in the MMO field. Then, on October 25, Bethesda received a large
$300 Million investment from an outside firm. Now it has come to light that ZeniMax Media
registered ElderScrollsOnline.com back in mid August. Still, this is speculation, but it definitely appears that Bethesda and ZeniMax are cooking something. Here's the
'whois' lookup confirming the domain purchase