Everybody's doing the Scrolls

Dan Ackerman Editorial Director / Computers and Gaming

Dan Ackerman leads CNET's coverage of computers and gaming hardware. A New York native and former radio DJ, he's also a regular TV talking head and the author of "The Tetris Effect" (Hachette/PublicAffairs), a non-fiction gaming and business history book that has earned rave reviews from the New York Times, Fortune, LA Review of Books, and many other publications. "Upends the standard Silicon Valley, Steve Jobs/Mark Zuckerberg technology-creation myth... the story shines." -- The New York Times

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Author of the award-winning, NY Times-reviewed nonfiction book The Tetris Effect; Longtime consumer technology expert for CBS Mornings

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Dan Ackerman

March 31, 2006 2:31 p.m. PT

We're a pretty diverse group over here, and it's rare that so many tech editors agree on one thing. But agree we do about The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, the epically huge (or hugely epic, if you prefer) single-player role-playing game that was released for PC and Xbox 360 last week. Besides yours truly, you'll also find Will, Rich, Dave, Dave, and Dave all spending copious amounts of free time playing the game.

I mention this because our cohorts over at sister site GameSpot have put together a great retrospective video for AOL, covering the history of all the Elder Scrolls games. Check it out and discover why so many people who would normally never go near a sword-and-sorcery game (myself included) can't resist these 100-hour-plus experiences.

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