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Elder Scrolls Online gets a new expansion in June, plus a 15 month-long birthday party, which feels greedy

The Elder Scrolls Online’s next expansion, dubbed Gold Road, is set to arrive this summer following a big reveal as part of last night’s big Xbox Developer Direct. The game is also getting a 15 month-long tenth birthday celebration, which seems a tad excessive (we're just jealous really).

Yes, it’s almost a decade since Zenimax looked at World of Warcraft (among others), looked at The Elder Scrolls, and thought something along the lines of ‘why not us, man?’. Despite not quite being the cup of tea of many single-player loving mainline Elder Scrolls fans, ESO’s amassed a pretty huge player base of MMO-enjoyers over the years, who’ll get to head on a new adventure in Cyrodiil this June.

Said adventure comes in the form of the Gold Road expansion, which you can check out a cool trailer for below. For veteran ESO players, it looks like Gold Road will serve as a bit of a follow-up to last year’s Necrom expansion, while offering the chance to explore some classic locations you’ll likely remember from Oblivion, in the form of the Imperial province’s West Weald region and its central city, Skingrad.

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