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Microsoft’s acquisition this week of ZeniMax Media, the parent company of Bethesda, has brought with it ownership of several video game franchises. Included in that deal is The Elder Scrolls, a collection of games that includes the fifth chapter in the series, Skyrim, and its upcoming sequel.

In addition to those acquisitions there is also The Elder Scrolls Online, a massively multiplayer online role-playing game which began in 2014. Available on Xbox One, PC, and PlayStation 4, it’ll be business as usual for The Elder Scrolls Online even after Microsoft’s $7.5 billion purchase of it and the rest of the Bethesda game library.

“I want to take this moment to reassure the entire Elder Scrolls community that ESO will continue to be supported exactly as it was, and we fully expect to keep growing and thriving on each of the platforms that are currently supported,” Matt Firor, Studio Director of ZeniMax Online Studios, said in a statement. “We are very happy with the news, and can’t wait to see how the two companies working together can make ESO better for everyone.”

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Microsoft made a big splash with the announcement that it was acquiring Bethesda and its parent company ZeniMax. The deal includes huge franchises like Elder Scrolls, Fallout, and Doom, but that’s not all. The acquisition actually includes eight new studios, all of which will now become first-party for Microsoft.

In the announcement, Microsoft mentioned all the studios represented by the acquisition. The company didn’t outline specific current or future game projects in the works from each studio, but we know some of them from prior announcements. Many recent games were co-developed across multiple studios.

• Bethesda Softworks
• Bethesda Game Studios
  • Fallout 76
  • Elder Scrolls Blades
  • Starfield
  • Elder Scrolls 6
• id Software
  • Doom (series)
  • Rage (series)
  • Wolfenstein (series)
• ZeniMax Online Studios
  • Elder Scrolls Online
  • Fallout 76
• Arkane
  • Dishonored (series)
  • Prey
  • Deathloop
  • Wolfenstein Youngblood
• MachineGames
  • Wolfenstein Youngblood
• Tango Gameworks
  • The Evil Within (series)
  • Ghostwire: Tokyo
• Alpha Dog
  • MonstroCity: Rampage (mobile)
• Roundhouse Studios (formerly Human Head)
  • Prey

We can expect many of these games to hit Xbox Game Pass, along with new releases like Starfield and Elder Scrolls 6. That’s already a hefty catalog of new franchises under the Xbox umbrella, but questions have been popping up across social media regarding partnerships or interplays between those and other, currently owned Microsoft studios.

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Microsoft has acquired Bethesda and its parent company ZeniMax for a whopping $7.5 billion, bringing it into the Xbox fold. That includes some massive franchises like Doom, Fallout, and The Elder Scrolls. But as part of the acquisition news, the companies also dropped a reminder that first-party games like Starfield are available on Game Pass upon release.

The announcement from Bethesda mentions Starfield specifically: “Microsoft will grow from 15 to 23 creative studio teams and will be adding Bethesda’s iconic franchises to Xbox Game Pass. This includes Microsoft’s intent to bring Bethesda’s future games into Xbox Game Pass the same day they launch on Xbox or PC, like Starfield, the highly anticipated, new space epic currently in development by Bethesda Game Studios.”

The press release makes no such specific mention of Elder Scrolls 6–which Todd Howard has said is still a long way off–but the precedent set by other first-party games would suggest that it will come to Game Pass too. This also means that current ZeniMax games like Doom Eternal and Fallout 76 will likely either come to Game Pass or stay on the service in perpetuity. Any sequels to these or the company’s many other franchises will hit Game Pass too.

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The second season of Disney+’s The Mandalorian hits the streaming service October 30, but with a new season, comes new toys. As the saying goes, this is the way.

Disney and Lucasfilm have announced Mando Mondays, and to celebrate the announcement, starting October 26, toy juggernaut Hasbro will release new products for The Mandalorian, available for preorder today across multiple retailers like Best Buy, Gamestop, Target, and Amazon.

For those fans that missed out on getting the first mini Mando wave, Hasbro is releasing a new set of toys based on the show that include almost entirely new paint jobs. This includes a new wave of the Vintage Collection, the 3.75 scale figures. You can see Mando, a Stormtrooper, Death Trooper, and Cara Dune above.

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The prehistoric animated comedy The Croods was released back in 2013, and grossed more than $587 million at the worldwide box office. Although the Netflix show Dawn of the Croods has been released since then, it’s taken seven years for the movie sequel to arrive. But The Croods: A New Age releases in November, and the first trailer is here.

The movie focuses on the prehistoric family of the title once more, who decide to find a new, safer place to live. They encounter a seemingly idyllic walled-in jungle paradise where a higher evolved family named the Bettermans live, and it looks like much of humor will come from the differences between the two families. Check the trailer out below.

The film features most of the original voicecast, including Nicolas Cage, Emma Stone, Ryan Reynolds, and Catherine Keener. There are also new roles for Game of Thrones star Peter Dinklage and Star Wars: The Last Jedi’s Kelly Marie Tran. It’s directed by Joel Crawford.

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Microsoft has announced a $7.5 billion deal to acquire ZeniMax Media, the parent company of Bethesda and its many studios. Those studios are behind some big video game franchises including Doom, Fallout, Elder Scrolls, and more.

In an Xbox blog post announcing the acquisition, Xbox head Phil Spencer outlined that this deal includes the studios behind franchises like The Elder Scrolls, Fallout, Wolfenstein, Doom, Dishonored, Prey, and Quake, along with unreleased games like Starfield. It also mentions that Bethesda was early to support Game Pass with offerings like The Elder Scrolls, and that moving forward Bethesda’s library will be added to the service. That will include launch-day Game Pass releases for future projects like Starfield. Game Pass is a key factor in the acquisition.

“Like us, Bethesda are passionate believers in building a diverse array of creative experiences, in exploring new game franchises, and in telling stories in bold ways,” Spencer said. “All of their great work will of course continue and grow and we look forward to empowering them with the resources and support of Microsoft to scale their creative visions to more players in new ways for you.”

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Freedom Fighters, the 2003 cult classic from Hitman developer IO Interactive, might be making a comeback. The game, which was published by EA on PC, PS2, Xbox, and GameCube, has received a new rating from PEGI for PC.

The rating, which was discovered and shared by ResetEra user dex3108, lists the publisher as IO Interactive. The studio went independent in 2017 after parting ways with Square Enix, and is currently working on Hitman 3. The release date is listed as September 21, 2020, but that could be a placeholder.

This could mean that the game is receiving a re-release, as the listing is identical from the previous entries aside from the publisher. The game is unavailable digitally, and is beloved enough that a touched-up re-release makes sense.

None of this is confirmed, but past precedent suggests that this rating could mean the game is going to be made available again soon.

Freedom Fighters received a 9.3/10 in GameSpot’s original review, and is often held up as a forgotten classic of its era. The game depicts an alternate-reality version of the US that has been taken over by the Soviet Union, and players took control of the eponymous freedom fighters looking to liberate the country.