Start transforming your game’s economy and increase your bottom line. Get the free guide now. Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. Bethesda Softworks’ love affair with the Switch continues, and soon, Skyrim won’t be the only Elder Scrolls games on Nintendo’s nifty console. And the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, too. Today at its Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) press briefing, the publisher announced that the The Elder Scrolls: Legends digital card game is coming to the Switch, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. This is now the third game that Bethesda has brought to Nintendo’s platform, joining Doom and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. This could in part explain why Bethesda announced last month that it’s switching developers from Dire Wolf Digital in Denver to Sparkypants — maybe it was looking for a studio with more experience dealing with consoles. Community manager Christian van Hoose (a former Legends streamer) made the announcement, also noting that Legends would be rolling out its new look next year. Card games are an important and growing market in video games worth $1.3 billion in 2017, research firm Superdata reports, and should hit $1.7 billion in 2019. Blizzard’s Hearthstone rules, making 3.3 times more than its closet competitor, and it’s going to get a serious competitor whenever Wizards of the Coast unleashes the open beta phase for Magic: The Gathering — Arena, the best adaptation of the genre-defining card game to date. Touchscreens are ideal for card games, as it just takes a few swipes to play and move cards. I don’t image playing Legends with a Joy-Con or Pro controller, but it would be easy to sit on the couch, on the train, or in bed with the Switch in portable mode and play. It’ll be interesting to see how Bethesda adapts the card-game mechanics to a controller for PS4 and Xbox One. None of the big card games — Hearthstone, Shadowverse, or even the upcoming Magic: The Gathering: Arena — are on consoles. And it also gives Bethesda a chance to grow the community, one that’s smaller than Hearthstone’s player base but still quite passionate about the game. The Elder Scrolls may not rake in as much money as Hearthstone, but it stands out from Blizzard’s juggernaut in a variety of ways. It uses a color-based system for building decks, but unlike Magic: The Gathering and others, you can build decks now from among three colors, not two, as of the recent Houses of Morrowind expansion. You fight in two lanes on the board, not just one. Its puzzle sets offer a different sort of challenge, giving you a hand of cards and presenting you a “solve in one turn” situation. And its draft system has solo play, so you can build decks against a group of nine AI competitors, making it one way to increase your card collection and learn new cards without facing other players.<doc-sep>The Elder Scrolls: Legends will launch on consoles — Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One — with a new look, Bethesda Softworks announced this evening at its E3 keynote event. The console launch will happen later this year. The card-collecting role-playing game debuted in 2017 on PC, Mac and mobile platforms. Earlier this month, Bethesda turned development over to Sparkypants Studios to rejuvenate the franchise; the publisher said it had found potential in the card-collecting game that it hadn’t realized in the first year of its launch. Bethesda Softworks also said that progress within the PC or mobile version of The Elder Scrolls: Legends will carry over to the console edition when it launches, via the player’s Bethesda.net account. Bethesda touted more than 11 million players for the Legends franchise since its launch. As for the primary Elder Scrolls franchise, two expansions for The Elder Scrolls Online — Wolfhunter and Murkmire — will be released later this year.<doc-sep>
Bethesda, the gaming studio that has developed games such as the Fallout and Doom series, had a press event at E3 2018. This year’s theme for Bethesda was “create”, something embraced by the company’s 10 studios across the world. The company announced the card game Elder Scrolls Legends will be coming to PS4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch as well. Your progress will carry over to the console editions via your Bethesda.net account. The Elder Scroll Legends card game may not have received the most exciting of updates as there was not much to see in terms of actual content updates, but fans of the game will be happy to see the game coming to consoles as well. This kind of a card game would suit portable consoles such as the Nintendo Switch, and it’s great to see it arrive on these platforms. Plus the added boost of having your progress carry over is another boost for players. Bethesda also announced that the Elder Scrolls Online MMO will be getting two DLC packs this year. One of them is called Murkmire and the other is more story content for Summerset. The Elder Scrolls franchise is known for its vast single-player campaigns as seen in games such as Skyrim, but the online game is going strong too as evidenced by the quarterly DLC packs that it keeps getting. Summerset is the first of the DLCs to be released and the story is based around shadows rising over the in-game location Summerset where monsters from another portal appear to sow seeds of chaos. You can check out the E3 trailer for Elder Scrolls Online right here. If you're a fan of video games, check out Transition, Gadgets 360's gaming podcast. You can listen to it via Apple Podcasts or RSS, or just listen to this week's episode by hitting the play button below.