Everybody knows The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, but Bethesda’s Elder Scrolls series stretches way back into the ’90s, with a host of fantasy open world games that let you adventure around Tamriel. Fanatical’s The Elder Scrolls Bundle gives you a chance to explore almost all of it, offering six PC games in the storied franchise and their DLC to offer hundreds of hours of RPG gaming. All six games are delivered instantly as Steam keys. See at Fanatical The Elder Scrolls Bundle includes all of the modern Elder Scrolls titles, offering the Game of the Year edition versions of The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind and The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, which means you get all their story DLC as well as the base games. It also includes Skyrim and The Elder Scrolls Online, as well as two older titles: An Elder Scrolls Legend: Battlespire, and The Elder Scrolls Adventures: Redguard, released in 1997 and 1998, respectively.This bundle has two tiers. The first tier gets you all six games and will cost you $16. The second tier upgrades the bundle to include the Skyrim Anniversary Edition, which brings a flood of Creation Club mod content to the game, including new activities like fishing and …

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In September 1994, the Entertainment Software Rating Board officially began rating video games in North America, a practice which it continues to this day. Although the ESRB’s 30th anniversary won’t officially arrive until September 16, its employees have decided to celebrate a few weeks early by releasing a new song, E is for Everyone, which playfully explains the purpose of its game ratings. As related on the ESRB’s official site, this song was inspired by the educational tunes from the Schoolhouse Rock animated show of the ’70s and ’80s. Presumably the animated singers in this video are based on real people who work for the ESRB, but the video doesn’t credit them by name. The lyrics of the song also explain how the rating process unfolds, the four major ratings, as well as the enforcement of the Advertising Review Council’s regulations for displaying the ratings in game ads.The only thing that the song doesn’t touch upon are the circumstances that forced the video game companies to utilize the ESRB in the first place. In 1993, opportunistic politicians capitalized on titles like Mortal Kombat and Night Trap to whip up the public into a frenzy about games with explicit o…

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