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The Elder Scrolls Online's developers have had a rough couple of years, starting with the scrapping of Project Blackbird in July 2025, which also led to 62 employees being laid off. Then, in July of this year, Xbox's reset tore into the studio's numbers, with a whopping 213 employees laid off from Zenimax Online. Overall, Zenimax Online's dev team dropped by roughly 60% in one year... Read more.
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Game: The Elder Scrolls Online
Official source: ESO - Steam
Author: Harvey Randall
Published: September 26, 2026 15:00 UTC
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