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Three games are free to play on Xbox systems this weekend.

The games are Battlefield 5, The Elder Scrolls Online, and Assetto Corsa Competizione.

Battlefield 5, like Assetto Corsa Competizione, will be free to try until Sunday, August 29 at 11:59pm PT, which is 2:59am ET and 7:59am BST on Monday, August 30.

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Explore some of ESO’s post-launch adventures and you can earn bonus rewards, unique collectibles, and Event Tickets.

[h2]Sand, Snow, & Blood[/h2]
Kicking off this Thursday, August 26 at 10AM EDT, and running until Tuesday, September 7 at 10AM EDT, you can earn bonus rewards, event-specific collectibles, and Event Tickets while adventuring within the Wrothgar, Craglorn, and Imperial City zones.

To get started, pick up the introductory quest titled “Sand, Snow, and Blood” from the Crown Store or Impresario tent and then travel directly to one of the three zones.

As part of the ESO base game, Craglorn can be accessed by all ESO players, and the Imperial City DLC can be purchased for zero crowns from the in-game Crown Store. You can get access to the Orsinium DLC with ESO Plus™ membership or buy it directly from the Crown Store on sale for 1,500 crowns (50% off the DLC’s regular price). In addition to this, you can pick up the Orsinium Collector’s Bundle from the in-game Crown Store for 2,000 crowns (also 50% off its regular price), containing the Cave Bear mount, the Cave Bear Cub pet, and five Crown Experience Scrolls.

Finally, you can also pick up the 4-DLC Mega Pack (containing the Orsinium, Imperial City, Thieves Guild, and Dark Brotherhood DLCs) for 2,000 crowns (50% off) or the Imperial City Collector’s Bundle for 2,000 crowns (also 50% off) containing the Mind-Shriven Horse mount, Mind-Shriven skin, Daedrat pet, and five Crown Experience scrolls.


These discounts are available only during the Year One Celebration, and there’s a host of event-specific items also arriving in the in-game Crown Store during the event period, too—don’t miss out!
[h2]Ancient Worlds, New Rewards[/h2]
When you complete quests within Wrothgar, Craglorn, or Imperial City zones, you can receive event-specific bonus rewards and loot.

Year One Coffers

When you complete various activities in any of the event’s three zones, you have a chance to receive a Year One Coffer in addition to your regular rewards. These activities include:

• Completing the Year One Celebration intro quest
• Completing daily quests
• Defeating Delve and World Bosses
• Opening treasure chests, safeboxes, or Thieves Troves
• Claiming a Psijic Portal
• Harvesting a Harvest Node
• Defeating a boss in a Craglorn Trial
• Defeating a boss in the Dragonstar Arena
• Defeating a boss in the Maelstrom Arena
• Defeating a boss in either the White-Gold Tower or Imperial City Prison
• Looting monsters or objects (such as barrels, crates, etc.)

When you receive a Year One Coffer, they have a chance to contain the following valuable items:

• Crafting materials
• Imperial City key fragments
• Style items for the styles found within Wrothgar, Imperial City, and Craglorn
• Zone gear set items
• Transmutation Crystals
• Valuables you can sell to vendors for gold
• Motif Chapters style pages from the Wrothgar, Imperial City, and Craglorn zones
  • Including Yokudan, Celestial, Ra Gada, Trinimac, Ancient Orc, Malacath, and Xivkyn
• Pages for the new Old Orsinium weapon styles
• Pages for Maelstrom Arena weapon styles
• Pages for the Legion Zero Vigiles armor styles

Take heed: Each day, the first time you complete a Daily Quest in Wrothgar, Craglorn, or the Imperial City, you’ll receive a Glorious Year One Coffer, which is guaranteed to contain either a Motif Chapter style page or a page for the new Old Orsinium weapon style.

Bonus Rewards

In addition to the Year One Coffers, during the event period, the following activities have bonus rewards:

• Double reward boxes for all Daily Quests in Wrothgar, Imperial City, and Craglorn
• Increased resource node rewards (not including those from fishing holes or crafting materials obtained from creatures)
• Bonus loot from World Bosses, Dungeon Bosses, and Delve Bosses
• Bonus loot from chests in the Maelstrom and Dragonstar Arenas
• Bonus loot from the bosses in the Craglorn Trials (in addition to earning two coffers for the Trial’s Weekly Quest)
• Bonus Tel Var stones earned in the Imperial City

That’s a ton of great reasons to explore some of ESO’s earliest adventures!

[h2]Impresario & Event Tickets[/h2]
During the Year One Celebration, you can earn up to two Event Tickets per day by completing the following:

• One Event Ticket for completing a Daily Quest in Wrothgar or Craglorn
• One Event Ticket for completing a District Daily Quest in the Imperial City

Note that Wrothgar’s Daily Quests are split between the city of Orsinium and Morkul Stronghold. The Event Ticket timer resets at 2:00AM EDT each morning. If you earn new Event Tickets over the 12-limit cap, you’ll lose them.

Here’s what the Impresario event merchant stocks during the event period:

• Unstable Morpholith base fragments
  • Including the Deadlands Flint, Rune-Etched Striker, and Smoldering Bloodgrass Tinder
• The first and second fragment for the Dagonic Quasigriff (to upgrade your Unstable Morpholith with)
  • The Smoke-Wreathed Gryphon Feather and Black Iron Bit and Bridle
• Old Orsinium Weapon Style pages (can’t be traded)
• Group Repair Kits

This event is your second opportunity to acquire fragments required to upgrade your Unstable Morpholith into the new Dagonic Quasigriff mount!


Don’t forget, you’ll need to own an Unstable Morpholith and all three upgrade fragments to unlock this mount, so keep an eye out for future event announcements to snatch up the third and final fragment.
[h2]Orcs, Imperials, & Buried Secrets[/h2]
Return to some of ESO’s earliest adventures and you’ll have a chance to earn a host of unique rewards and bonus loot during the Year One Celebration in-game event. Which zone will you travel to first? Let us know via Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. 

The Year One Celebration in-game event begins at 10:00AM EDT on Thursday, August 26, and it will end at 10:00AM EDT on Tuesday, September 7.

Continue your Gates of Oblivion adventure with the Waking Flame dungeon DLC and Update 31 base-game patch.

The Elder Scrolls Online: Waking Flame DLC game pack is now live on PC/Mac and Stadia, and it challenges players with two new dungeons, each with their own unique Gates of Oblivion stories. If you play on console, don’t fret—Waking Flame arrives on Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, and PlayStation 5 on September 8.

This release also includes the free Update 31 base-game patch, which provides all ESO players with a series of additions and improvements to the game.

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You can access the DLC via ESO Plus™ membership or purchase it with crowns from the in-game Crown Store. Additionally, check out the patch notes for both Waking Flame and Update 31 on our official forums.

[h2]Waking Flame DLC Game Pack[/h2]
Uncover evils in The Elder Scrolls Online: Waking Flame with two amazing new dungeons: Red Petal Bastion and the Dread Cellar. While both PvE challenges explore unique stand-alone stories, they also expand upon the year-long Gates of Oblivion adventure and set up the events of the upcoming Deadlands DLC (arriving later in 2021).

Red Petal Bastion

For centuries, the noble Knights of the Silver Rose had protected the people from Tamriel from the forces of Oblivion, but recently, the order has begun indiscriminately looting nearby shrines to collect holy relics, which they add to their fortress, the Red Petal Bastion.


A devotee of Azura needs your help to confront this once-noble order, reclaim his stolen artifacts, and discover the secret behind the order’s sudden and violent turn.

The Dread Cellar

Whispered to be one of the Empire’s most-feared prisons, the Dread Cellar, long thought abandoned, has begun emanating mysterious magical energies. Now home to the cultists of the Waking Flame and their Daedric minions, this once-feared site holds new evils for any would-be adventurers.


A pair of Imperial Battlemages needs your assistance in their investigation of the prison’s activity, but what role does the Dread Cellar’s own past have in the cultists’ fiendish plans? And to what lengths might the Battlespire go to protect the Empire’s secrets?

Both dungeons are filled with a host of challenging boss battles to overcome and mysteries to uncover, and both are available in Normal, Veteran, and Hard Mode difficulties for groups seeking difficult opposition. Finally, each dungeon also holds a series unique item sets, Achievements, and collectibles for you to loot and earn, ensuring the rewards are equal to the risks—good luck!   

[h2]Getting Started[/h2]
You can access The Elder Scrolls Online: Waking Flame DLC game pack via ESO Plus membership or purchase it for 1,500 crowns from the in-game Crown Store (listed under DLC). Note that if your ESO Plus membership lapses, you will lose access to the DLC until you renew your membership or purchase it with crowns, but you won’t lose any items, Achievements, or other rewards you earned while you had access.

The Waking Flame Collector’s Bundle is also available for 4,000 crowns and includes access to the DLC game pack, the Silver Rose Senche-Serval mount, the Ironclad Senche-Serval Kitten pet, and five Crown Experience Scrolls. You can purchase the Collector’s Bundle from the Featured section of the in-game Crown Store.

With access to the Waking Flame DLC, you can continue your Gates of Oblivion adventure by the following methods:

• By teleporting directly into the two dungeons from your map
• By using the Dungeon Finder tool
• By walking up to the dungeon entrances within Blackwood (Dread Cellar) and within Glenumbra (Red Petal Bastion)

Finally, simply by entering either of these two new dungeons, you’ll receive the Scorion Pyreling pet!

[h2]Update 31[/h2]
In addition to Waking Flame, the Update 31 base-game patch will arrive in tandem with the DLC as a free update for all ESO players. This update includes assorted bug fixes, balance changes, performance improvements, and a series of quality-of-life additions.

This includes the ability to toggle between HDR modes on consoles in your Settings menu, the addition of Dynamic Resolution Scaling (creating a more responsive framerate experience and providing generally higher resolutions when running in Performance Mode on Xbox Series X|S and PlayStation 5), a beta for Multithreaded Rendering on PC (potentially improving framerates), and a Reply function for your in-game mail. In addition to this, an assortment of new houses, furnishings, and houseguests will arrive in in-game Crown store in the coming months.  

For more on the graphical improvements arriving with Update 31, check out this article, and be sure to visit our official forums to review the complete patch notes for both Waking Flame and Update 31 to get the whole picture.

[h2]The Waking Flame Rises[/h2]
With two exciting dungeons that expand upon the Gates of Oblivion adventures and a slew of graphical enhancements and changes, the Waking Flame DLC and Update 31 base-game patch bring new challenges, rewards, and improvements for all of Tamriel’s adventurers. Are you ready to continue the fight against the forces of Mehrunes Dagon? Tell us via Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.

You can explore Tamriel for free during the QuakeCon 2021 Free Play Event!

The Elder Scrolls Online QuakeCon 2021 Free Play Event is now live and runs until Monday, August 30 at 10AM EDT. During the free-play period, anybody on PC/Mac, Xbox consoles (Xbox Live Gold required), PlayStation consoles, and Stadia (Stadia Pro required) can download and play The Elder Scrolls Online for free!

To join over 18 million players and discover this award-winning RPG for yourself, simply visit our Free Play page and select your platform. This event gives you access to Morrowind's zone (Vvardenfell) and ESO base game, which includes four of the game’s original classes, 23 unique zones, and countless hours of adventure.

Because the Free Play Event includes the base game, you can begin your Gates of Oblivion adventure with access to the Blackwood Prologue questline. If you’d like to continue your story beyond the Free Play Event, pick up The Elder Scrolls Online Collection: Blackwood from our Buy Now page to get immediate access to the game and previous Chapters.

If you’ve already played ESO during a previous event, you can continue your adventures as normal. Even better, all new ESO accounts created also receive 500 crowns to spend in the in-game Crown Store!

[h2]Tamriel Awaits[/h2]
A whole world of adventure awaits during QuakeCon 2021, so visit our Free Play page and get ready to discover the biggest next-gen RPG in the world. Even better, if you’re an Xbox Series X|S or PlayStation 5 player, you’re able to experience the Console Enhanced version of the game for free for the first time ever—now is the time to finally check out The Elder Scrolls Online!