Myst developer Cyan is running a Kickstarter campaign for a new game, Firmament, and Gearbox finally announced Borderlands 3. But that's just the start of this week's news, which also contained release date announcements for Heaven's Vault, Wolfenstein: Youngblood, and Observation, plus the announcement of a new Divinity: Original Sin spinoff tactics game, CD Projekt teasing not one but two games before 2021, and free copies of Morrowind to celebrate the Elder Scrolls anniversary. This is gaming news for March 25 to 29. This week's free game offer is near and dear to my heart. To celebrate the 25th anniversary of The Elder Scrolls, Bethesda is giving away free copies of The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, a.k.a.

I had worried that The Elder Scrolls Online had played its best hand too soon when it released Morrowind as its first "chapter" (or expansion) in 2017, but I'd forgotten about the dragons. The beasts, so loved from The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, take flight in ESO's upcoming Elsweyr expansion, and earlier today ESO's creative director Rich Lambert showed audiences on Twitch how dragons would spend the game's next chapter burninating the homeland of the cat-like Khajiit. The new chapter launches for pre-orders buyers on May 20, and here are five good reasons why you'll want to be around in May when the fur and fire starts to fly. Here there be dragons, and frankly it's about time. I'm a little surprised to see them.

I'm stepping through a portal on the heels of a young elf woman who looks roughly my own age, or at least as close as you get when you're dealing with a race that thinks of our pitiful lifespan like we think of dog years. But on the other side of the portal I face a woman racked with the lines and worries of a wasted life. I hear her despair at seeing my relatively young face. And yes, it's her: The trip through the portal felt like seconds for me, but she's been over here on the other side, trapped and wandering in the lovely ruin we'd come to study for more decades than I've even been alive. Elder Scrolls Online's Summerset expansion ($40 on Humble) is at its finest in quests like these; these little moments that feel more like "weird tales" from the pens of pulp greats like Robert E. Howard or H.P. Lovecraft than the pages of contemporary doorstop fantasies. The compact scripts allow glimpses into the daily life of imaginary worlds that you just don't get in the greater dramas about wrestling with gods and saving the world.

The first chap I meet in the Summerset Isles is an elf with a Sean Penn face who gripes about how he's missing out on a wine tasting because some local Wood Elves "offed" the vintner, because of course. This, after all, is the closed beta for The Elder Scrolls Online's Summerset expansion ($40 on Amazon), which whisks us off to the ancestral homes of the High Elves, a magical land crammed with haughty wizards, Neuschwanstein-like villas, and flora that likely would have been at home in Eden. This dude just wants his wine, and I can appreciate that. ZeniMax Online's game may be crawling with elves and the occasional grumpy orc, but no other MMORPG feels quite so human. That's not to say that other MMOs like Final Fantasy XIV and Star Wars: The Old Republic don't spin a good yarn, but they're more concerned with high drama and the oh-so-important Fate of the World.

There's a story I tell, when people ask why I love The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind. Basically, I found a shield. But it's how I found that shield that came to define my love for Morrowind. I was walking through a barren wasteland, a place I'd visited probably a dozen times, but this time I took a different route--only to find an unassuming door built into a rock formation. A tomb, and at the end of it, mounted high on the wall where you might think it was just part of the scenery, was Eleidon's Ward--the best shield in Morrowind.

Words whispered by a stranger in the bowels of some dimly lit ship. It's been more than a decade since I first played The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind and I'm starting to suspect that, for me at least, there will never be another game like it, never another introduction I remember so fondly. It seemed so much larger than six homes and a main road back then. Nowadays every game's an open-world monstrosity packed full of hundreds of activities, but in 2002? Each tiny town was a bustling metropolis.

Bethesda is trying to boost The Elder Scrolls Online's player base less than two months before the launch of its big Morrowind expansion. Starting tomorrow at 10 am EST, anyone can download and play the game on PC, Xbox One or PlayStation 4 for free for an entire week. People taking advantage of the free play week will have access to the full The Elder Scrolls Online: Tamriel Unlimited base game, but not the DLC. They'll also get 500 crowns to spend in the in-game store when they create a new account. Any characters, Crown Packs or store items bought during the week, as well as any progress made, will carry over if players decide to buy the game.

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. The author is a Forbes contributor. The opinions expressed are those of the writer. It's been a while since I've played The Elder Scrolls: Online, but the game's next big expansion may reel me back in. That's because the MMORPG is returning to the franchise's third installment: Morrowind.

The Elder Scrolls Online: Morrowind has just been announced as one of the biggest updates to the game yet. The game will open up the area of Vvardenfell with a whole new set of adventures, dungeons and characters. This will be the largest new zone added to ESO since the games launch. New updates include a new nature-based magic-using class known as The Warden. There are no details on The Warden's new skill lines, but we do know that the three will focus on pets, nature abilities and ice.

The Elder Scrolls Online: Morrowind has just been announced as one of the biggest updates to the game yet. The game will open up the area of Vvardenfell with a whole new set of adventures, dungeons and characters. This will be the largest new zone added to ESO since the games launch. New updates include a new nature based magic-using class known as The Warden, there are no details on The Warden's new skill lines but we do know that the three will focus on pets, nature abilities and ice. The War Bear will be an ultimate and it will remain as long as it live and can be buffed and healed.