Leading High Street retailer GAME is refusing to stock copies of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion for the PlayStation 3.
Bethesda production director, Ashley Cheng, has said on his blog that a patch will be released on Monday, April 30th to fix the "formID" bug on the Xbox 360 version of the game. The critical bug would appear late in the game and cause items to disappear.
Ubisoft, one of the world's largest video game publishers, and Bethesda Softworks, a ZeniMax Media company, announced today that the blockbuster role-playing game, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion will be available for PLAYSTATION 3 computer entertainment system in the UK on April 27th.
Shivering Isles could be the first and last full expansion Bethesda releases for Oblivion. The developer has said that Shivering Isles is "the only expansion we have planned".
1up is reporting that after yesterday, fans alerted Bethesda Softworks to a game-breaking bug discovered in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion: Shivering Isles, which started to appear after gamers had cleared 50 hours of gameplay within the expansion. Bethesda has already issued a beta patch to start solving the issue. Because it's a beta, however, the studio warns of casual users hopping straight in, as there could be unforeseen issues that occur upon installation.
UPDATE: Bethesda's Pete Hines offered us the official response to this issue:
Apparently a new bug has been popping in Shivering Isles and for the time being there is no way around it. Joystiq reports the problem has been determined to derive from six scripts which control the patrolling patterns of certain guards. The scripts, which run even if you are not in the area, exhausts the internal allotment of identification numbers which are assigned to every object in the game (e.g. dropped arrows, weaponry). Once all the space is full, newly created objects disappear from the game world.
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