Elder Scrolls Online is currently completely free on the Epic Games Store. If you want to try ESO and are willing to use EGS, you have until July 27th to claim your free copy.
Today Epic Games laid of ~900 of its workers by emailing. Some were already locked out of their emails and weren't even able to receive the message that they were no longer employed.
This year has been incredibly difficult for games workers - I read a statistic that this year the layoffs in tech number in the hundreds of thousands. Heck, I won't forget that earlier this year Microsoft laid of 10,000 of its workers. Layoffs are hitting the games industry incredibly hard.
If you want to learn how you as a worker in the games industry can take action to protect both you and those around you via organizing your workplace (an effective and time-tested method), CODE-CWA offers free training here:
I don't normally make pictures without lineart, but I was messing around to see if I even liked the colors and thought it had a very dreamy quality. ☀️
literally the day after SAG members voted for another game industry strike regarding ai usage, Epic games lays off 16% of its work force (870 people), mostly artist.
The Epic Games Store will be giving out free copies of Elder Scrolls Online between July 20th - 27th. If you have any interest in ever using EGS, or trying ESO, this is a good opportunity to do so at no cost.