A new 2017 video shows the ambitious Skyblivion project - The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion recreated as a Skyrim mod - going from strength to strength. Apparently the increased attention has attracted more voluntary help so progress has sped as a result.
But, whew, Skyblivion is taking on a lot. Hardly a small game, Oblivion, is it? When on earth are we going to be able to play this? I asked the Skyblivion team for an update.
"At this point the base game is done," Kyle Rebel, project PR, told me. "this means Oblivion's game has been completely recreated and can be explored freely.
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The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion has been added to the Xbox One's backwards compatibility library.
Modders are already remaking The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind using the Skyrim game engine - and that looks awesome. But they're also remaking Oblivion in Skyrim.
UPDATE 3.55pm: Details and video of The Elder Scrolls Travels: Oblivion have only been online a short while but Bethesda parent company Zenimax has already lawyered up and pulled down the footage.
The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion modded into the The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim engine? Skyblivion is a voluntary project that fans of The Elder Scrolls games have been plugging away at for a while now.
Ever wondered what The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion would look built in the newer Skyrim engine? Wonder no more! Skyblivion is what you're looking for.
Got a few hours spare? Bethesda's got you covered with a new Elder Scrolls Anthology pack for PC.
The annual QuakeCon extravaganza is rumbling away in Dallas, Texas, and Steam's having a Bethesda-related sale to mark the occasion.
The main story in The Elder Scrolls Online will be "100 per cent solo" so that you feel like "you're awesome, you're the hero", game director Matt Firor has revealed.
Bethesda will unveil its heavily rumoured Elder Scrolls MMO in May, according to a new report.
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim's concept artists have revealed how they went about setting the latest entry in Bethesda's RPG series apart from it's predecessor.
Bethesda has confirmed the Oblivion 5th Anniversary for Europe. It will be released on 23rd September for £20 on PS3 and Xbox 360, £18 on PC.
A new BBFC rating for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Game of the Year Edition has popped up online, suggesting UK gamers may soon see the launch of the 5th anniversary edition of the sprawling fantasy RPG.
Sprawling fantasy role-playing epic The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion looks set for a limited re-release in June.
Gamers are still buying the Horse Armour add-on for sprawling fantasy role-playing game The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Bethesda has revealed.
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim will hark back to Morrowind and the "wonder of discovery" - something Bethesda wittingly "sacrificed" for Oblivion.
Besthesda has named the new engine underpinning The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. It is known as the Creation Engine.
Bethesda Game Studios is hard at work on the fifth game in the Elder Scrolls series, according to a new report.
Bethesda Game Studios is already designing the game it will make after the one the team is currently working on - which itself has yet to be announced, executive producer Todd Howard has told Eurogamer.
Bethesda is working on a "World of Warcraft type MMO", according to legal papers submitted in a court case between the company and Interplay.
Bethesda Softworks has said that the Elder Scrolls series "definitely will continue" despite reports to the contrary during QuakeCon.
2K has announced plans to bundle BioShock and Oblivion together on PC and Xbox 360, with both platform versions due out in Europe on 10th July.
Oblivion and Fallout maker Bethesda plans to make mature games for the Wii.
Bethesda, excited by the onset of spring, has halved the price all Oblivion Xbox 360 DLC. All except Horse Armor, that is, which now costs double.
Wizard's Tower is the most popular premium downloadable for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion on Xbox Live, according to developer Bethesda Softworks. (Hrm, this sounded more interesting before we started typing.)
Bethesda has hinted that the next instalment in the tip-top Elder Scrolls series won't be released until 2010.
Microsoft has significantly lowered the price of many popular DLC bundles on Xbox Live as part of a special promotion called Extended Play Download Days.
Bethesda has registered the new website address elderscrollsonline.com, suggesting that the MMO project it is working on is based on its hit role-playing series.
PS3-owning fans of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion keen to see what happens on those fabled Shivering Isles without forking out for the Game Of The Year edition will finally get the chance to do so next month, as Bethesda Softworks has announced plans to release a retail PS3 version of the expansion on 20th November.
Bethesda vocal-chord Pete Hines has revealed that the last ever piece of downloadable content for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion will be available on Monday.
Bethesda has announced it will be offering those of you without Live access a chance to play the Oblivion expansion Shivering Isles.
Two of the industry's leading storytellers have said games shouldn't try to develop more complex stories because designers haven't figured out a way to make it work yet, GamesIndustry.biz reports.
Bethesda Softworks has finally released a patch for Oblivion expansion Shivering Isles to fix the "FormID" bug that was ruining some people's games.
Leading High Street retailer GAME is refusing to stock copies of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion for the PlayStation 3, GamesIndustry.biz is reporting.
Bethesda's Pete Hines has admitted that it's "not possible" to port Oblivion over to Nintendo Wii, but he's in no rush to rule out a Bethesda Wii game for the future.
Ubisoft's ranks of PlayStation 3 launch titles were reduced yesterday as Splinter Cell: Double Agent slipped a week, Rainbow Six: Vegas and Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 both disappeared into the distance and The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion ran away for a month.
Blazing Angels and Enchanted Arms will both still be available in three days' time, at PS3's 23rd March launch, but Double Agent will only arrive on the 30th, while Oblivion is now down for 27th April. Ubisoft declined to comment on why the latter - released in the US this week - had slipped.
Meanwhile, the French publisher's latest schedule lists Rainbow Six: Vegas as "spring" (not the PS3's favourite word) while GRAW 2 is down for "June", whenever that is.
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Ever fancied taking part in a live action video game? Us neither, since it generally seems to involve smart-arse students with nothing better to do . Ubisoft's invitation to such an event, however, was not one to dismiss lightly.
Those of you who enjoy a good bout of rat-punching, like myself, will be pleased to hear that Bethesda has no plans to move out of the role-playing genre, according to voice-of-the-company Pete Hines.
Early magazine previews have spilled details about Oblivion's first real expansion, Shivering Isles.
We assume it's Xbox 360, PS3 and PC bound, though Bethesda has yet to come forward and confirm the game.
Unfortunately our biggest wish seems to have been denied, as the team looks to have chosen to focus on new content rather than overhaul some of the existing and flawed gameplay mechanics. It seems you PC gamers will still hold the upper hand in this sense, enhancing your experience with user-created mods.
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Oblivion's PC owning fans can now buy and download the Knights of the Nine expansion pack from developer Bethesda Softworks' website.
Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion expansion Knights of the Nine is now available to download from Xbox Live Marketplace for 800 Microsoft points (GBP 6.80 / EUR 9.30).
Featuring a significant new quest line, new enemies and items, Knights of the Nine is the biggest add-on Bethesda has released for the game so far.
A boxed PC version, featuring all the previous Oblivion add-on items (yes, horse armour and everything), is due for release this Friday in Europe through co-publisher Ubisoft.
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Bethesda Softworks has revealed that the PlayStation 3 version of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion has been delayed until the first quarter of 2007.
Xbox 360 and PC owning Oblivion fans wondering how much that new Knights of the Nine expansion is going to end up setting them back can rest easy - it's only going to cost US$ 9.99, or 800 Microsoft points on Xbox.
That's because Oblivion developer Bethesda "still considers" the Knights of the Nine add-on "downloadable content" rather than a full expansion. That's despite it adding "another 10-20 hours of gameplay" in the words of Bethesda's Pete Hines.
Indeed, you can already read a few details and check out some screenshots on OblivionDownloads.com, where the PC version will be sold from 21st November, while Xbox 360 owners should keep an eye on Marketplace around then.
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Xbox 360 and PC owners smarting at the introduction of a whole expansion's worth of content into the PlayStation 3 launch-title version of Oblivion can stop their sobbing - Bethesda's going to take care of you too.
The PlayStation 3 version of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion will benefit from technical advances made since the game shipped on Xbox 360 and PC earlier this year, in addition to offering the new "Knights of the Nine" quest announced last month.
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion will be a PlayStation 3 launch title in both North America this November and Europe next March.
Developer/publisher Bethesda Softworks confirmed the long-standing rumour this week, and will publish the game itself in the US while Ubisoft serves as co-publisher in Europe.
The company also revealed that a PSP instalment, The Elder Scrolls Travels: Oblivion, is in development and should be released in the US and Europe next spring.
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Bethesda Softworks has denied reports that it's developing an expansion pack called Knights of the White Stallion for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion.
Earlier this week US retailer Gamestop posted a page claiming a PC expansion of that name would be released on November 21 for $19.99.
But that's not the case, Bethesda eventually admitted. "There's no expansion in development called Knights of the White Stallion. That's the name of a quest in Oblivion," PR and marketing man Pete Hines told GamersReports.
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Bethesda is throwing more content into the world of Oblivion this week, this time focusing on the night walker community with a secret underwater lair for those afflicted with vampirism.
Some enterprising soul studying computer science has put together a modification that allows two people to run around The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion together.
The Mehrunes' Razor dungeon Bethesda trailed a fortnight ago for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion has been released on PC and Xbox 360. It's $2.99 for the PC version, which requires a recent patch to work, and apparently costs 250 Microsoft points if you want to play through it on Xbox 360 - although I can't test that right now because my 360 keeps freezing up in disgust this morning.
Bethesda's released its promised Oblivion patch, sorting out a number of bugs in the PC version of its critically acclaimed RPG.
Although an Xbox 360 patch isn't out yet (expect an "auto-update" soon, obviously), the PC one is quite slight, at just 1.6MB, and deals with obvious problems like infinite gold bugs and the ability to duplicate items.
It also sorts out some more serious things like problems with save-games (apparently down to using the Tab key during character name-creation), as well as keyboard, input device and other silly Windows problesm.
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Plenty of folks playing The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion have nothing but good to say about it, but there are some who look upon things differently - people who view all this downloadable content nonsense as a bit poor taste given the various bugs that have still yet to be ironed out.
Well, hopefully that's going to be sorted out soon - with a patch due for release on PC and Xbox 360 this week according to Bethesda Softworks PR head Pete Hines.
Speaking to 1UP last week, Hines said that an official patch is in the final stages of development and certification, and that the developer's also looking at options to get it to people on Xbox 360 who don't subscribe to Live. "We'll make it available via whatever means are out there for any game to get updates to people playing the game," he said - and yes, that might include bundling it with an official mag.
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Good news for those of you who've exhausted your horses, Orreries, Wizard's Towers, Thieves' Dens and, you know, the rest of Oblivion: Bethesda's announced the next round of downloadable content for its gigantic Xbox 360 and PC RPG.
It's official: Call of Duty 2 is the most popular Xbox 360 title currently being played via Xbox Live.
Finished Elder Scrolls Oblivion? Not any more you haven't! Because Bethesda's just released some more of its downloadable content.
Bethesda Softworks says it has no plans to do PSP and PS3 versions of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, despite what some-bloke-on-a-forum said. (Yep.)
Oblivion fans who've exhausted the Orrery quest and have had enough fun with their shiny horses can now get their hands on The Wizard's Tower quest.
Those of you playing The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion using a PC can download the extra content we talked about yesterday - and to add to the indignity of coming second to the Xbox 360 people in getting-it-quickly terms, you're paying $1.89 rather than 150 Microsoft points. Which is god only knows what in old money.
Oblivion fans playing the Xbox 360 version have the option to buy another bit of downloadable content this week - and for slightly less than the horse armour update released a fortnight ago.
As Take-Two announces that more than 1.7 million copies of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion have now been shipped, market research firm NPD has reported that it's the fastest-selling Xbox 360 game released so far in North America.
Elder Scrolls developer Bethesda's unveiled e-commerce site obliviondownloads.com, where owners of the PC version of new title Oblivion can purchase downloadable content made available to their Xbox cousins.
Those of you playing The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion on Xbox 360 can log onto Xbox Marketplace today and get your grubby gauntlets on some armour for your horse - providing you're happy to pay 200 points, or £1.70, for the privilege.
There's not long to go now until Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion arrives on PC and Xbox 360 - but while you're waiting, why not take a look at two new trailers? They're both on Eurogamer TV right now, don't you know.
RPG fans may also like to check out the new Dragon Quest trailer, which is really rather impressive. If you prefer your games with less fairies and elves and more murderous mobsters, we've also got some tips on how to bribe cops courtesy of The Godfather.
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion is out in Europe on March 24th.
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It's finally here - well, nearly; Take-Two has announced that PC and Xbox 360 title The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion will be out in Europe by the end of the month.
Members of the Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion development team have issued a statement on their company forums explaining why the game will now be released in early 2006 on PC and Xbox 360 and not during the Christmas period as previously stated.
Take-Two has confirmed to Eurogamer that PC and Xbox 360 RPG The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion has been delayed and won't now be hitting the shops until next year.
Bethesda Softworks has put an end to rumours that the Xbox 360 version of Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion will be in the shops on the same day as the console itself.
However much Microsoft says about the way Xbox 360 works, there always seems to be some lingering confusion - such is life as consoles become more complex pieces of kit, we suppose. Fortunately, some developers are keen to keep their fans up to speed, and one such dev is Bethesda Softworks, whose exec producer on Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion revealed this week that the game won't require a hard disk, but may benefit from the addition of one to the X360 Core System.
