ZAM published an interview yesterday with Matt Firor, Game Director of The Elder Scrolls Online. During the interview, the ZAM team asked about how beta is progressing and what advances are being made regarding certain aspects of the game’s development. While Matt Firor didn’t touch on the events of the recent beta leaks, he did seem extremely confident in the results of the beta test overall. Here are a couple of sample questions and answers from the interview:

There has been a lot of information regarding the huge amount of content for solo and small group play styles at launch. Will there be large encounters for guilds to coalesce around in an organized manner?

There are group instances that can be run with friends and guild mates as well as the PvP system, of course, which will be largely guild-driven. We’re still working on our large-scale PvE systems; expect to see some information on those soon.

The AI of even standard mobs is quite impressive; can we expect large world bosses with similar complexity?

It depends what you mean by “world bosses” – definitely we have very challenging bosses in dungeons, in some PvE leveling areas, and in the main story. You’ll have to use some strategy to defeat these enemies and their minions.

Strategy needed for main story battles? Count me in.

For the compete interview, check it out on ZAM.

Today, with the big announcement of the beta signup, Bethesda has also published a podcast with Jo Burba, Social Media Director, Matt Firor, Game Director, and Paul Sage, Creative Director. During the show the go over a few key design elements along with information on how the beta program will be organized and run.

The initial beta program will concentrate on shorter, small focus tests to test out specific game elements like certain classes and other features. TESO will bring more experienced testers at first and broaden their base as the test program ages. So if you’re filling out that signup form, the more information you can provide the better.

Check out our first video of The Elder Scrolls Online—a documentary-style introduction to the game, presented by members of The Elder Scrolls Online Development Team. This video covers the basics of ESO, including a first look at the game’s Elder Scrolls-style combat system, massive PvP battles, Megaserver technology, exploration-based content, and much more.

This video is the first in a series of regular content and video updates on ElderScrollsOnline.com. Check the site regularly for more!

Finally we’re able to get a good look at the game as we hear from Game Director, Matt Firor, and other devs. This is a must see for all MMOG fans.

Gamesindustry interviewed Studio Head, Matt Firor, about a myriad of topics regarding The Elder Scrolls Online. It’s an interview that covers a lot surface topics, ranging from consolization to lessons learned from previous games.

Q: What have you learned from past experiences, like Mythic, and what are your key takeaways with your current project at Elder Scrolls Online?

Matt Firor: I think it all goes back to if you concentrate on all the peripheral stuff, you miss the whole picture. You have to concentrate on the whole game first and make it a fun game. In our terms, that means making a fun role playing game in the Elder Scrolls universe. If you don’t do that and you worry about all the other stuff, then things go off the rails pretty quickly. I’ve learned that I need to focus on the things that matter. For example, answering your question on platforms, on consoles… we’re focusing on what we’re doing now. If we don’t do that, then we won’t go anywhere.

Check out the full interview over at Gamesindustry.biz.

Gameinformer gives us another video regarding the origins of The Elder Scrolls Online! In this video, they interview Matt Firor, Game Director for the story.

The game director for The Elder Scrolls Online talks about the genesis of the project and how they’ve converted the Elder Scrolls series into an MMO.

Hit us after the break for the full video.

Pokket from MMORPG.com had a chance to interview Game Director Matt Firor at E3. This was one of the more interesting interviews from the show as Matt gives us a more of an insight into the game. He discusses combat, questing and the general over-all gameplay of the game that seems to be a bit more clear than some of the interviews done so far from TESO.

Elder Scrolls Online was at E3 2012 in a big way this year, and our own Hillary “Pokket” Nicole caught up with the Game Director Matt Firor (of DAOC fame) to chat about everything from the PVP to the class progression, and nostalgia for past titles in the series.

Keep reading to watch the whole interview.