The release of the first trailer from Shivering Isles has been accompanied by news that Bethesda's first true expansion pack for Oblivion will arrive on March 27. Refer your mouse to the Movies tab above to take a gander. The Xbox 360 version, which will only be available via Xbox Live Marketplace, will cost 2400 Microsoft Points. On PC, it's being slapped with a $29.99 price tag. Shivering Isles is expected to offer 30-plus hours of new adventuring as players enter the the realm of ...
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21 Feb 2007

Oblivion lead designer joins Big Huge RPG venture

PC News | The Elder Scrolls IV: Shivering Isles

Big Huge Games is a developer best known for its work in the RTS genre with the Rise of Nations PC series, but it's now expanding its horizons and leaping into the world of the RPG. Details on its RPG project are scant - all that's currently know is that it'll definitely be a console game, with a PC version on the cards according to Next-Gen.biz - but Big Huge has just announced it's employing the talents of RPG heavyweight Ken Rolston for the title. Rolston was lead designer on The Elder ...
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20 Feb 2007

Bethesda: 'no plans to do anything other than...

PC News | The Elder Scrolls IV: Shivering Isles

There's good news for fans of stat-counting and rat-slashing today, as Oblivion developer Bethesda has said it has no plans to leave its much-loved role-playing genre any time soon. "I can tell you that right now there are no plans internally for us to do anything other than role-playing," Bethesda's vice president of PR Pete Hines told Edge ...
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19 Jan 2007

First video of the next Oblivion expansion

PC News | The Elder Scrolls IV: Shivering Isles

Working down the hall from the best Xbox magazine available - OXM - has many obvious advantages. For example, a library of all 360 games ever released can come in handy... Still, we've never been as thankful for our location as we are today. Behind the orange Movies tab above this article, you will find the first ever video footage of upcoming Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion expansion, Shivering Isles. Launch the video player and look for the one titled "OXM feature ...
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18 Jan 2007

Oblivion expansion: First screens

PC News | The Elder Scrolls IV: Shivering Isles

The Elder Scrolls IV: Shivering Isles, the first full expansion to mammoth-RPG TES IV: Oblivion, has finally been officially confirmed by developer Bethesda, and we've hunted out the first images to offer you a glimpse of the new world, open for adventuring on Xbox 360 and PC in the spring. Set in the Realm of Sheogorath, a fresh new land accessible through a gruesome portal located in Oblivion's Cyrodiil, Shivering Isles allows you to use your existing character in its new quests, or create a ...
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5 Jan 2007

Oblivion expansion details revealed

PC News | The Elder Scrolls IV: Shivering Isles

The first proper expansion pack for Xbox 360 and PC enormo-adventure The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion has finally been revealed as Shivering Isles. The 30-hour campaign is set on an entirely new continent, featuring such tourist landmarks as The Hill of Suicides and The Lightning Coast, and sees you take on a fresh bestiary of hostile creatures and a series of freeform quests. The main bulk of Shivering Isles ' gameplay will be concerned with a set of trials. These challenges are tasked to you ...
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1 Sep 2009

Stardock On Elemental's Strategy Game Engine Power

PC News from N4G | Elemental: War of Magic

PC - Elemental: War of Magic - Stardock On Elemental's Strategy Game Engine Power

Stardock's 2010 release Elemental: War of Magic is a turn-based "4X" strategy game in a fantasy setting, a spiritual successor to Simtex's 1994 cult classic Master of Magic.

But the Michigan-based developer has a secondary goal with the title, beyond the main game event: an entire engine specifically built around the strategy genre, aimed at allowing modders or even other developers to create full-scale strategy games of their own.
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5 Aug 2009

A lucky few get to play Elemental in alpha stage

PC News from N4G | Elemental: War of Magic

PC - Elemental: War of Magic - A lucky few get to play Elemental in alpha stage

Stardock's next internally developed game is Elemental: War of Magic. As with most of Stardock's games, folks who pre-order Elemental will be able to participate in the game's beta tests. Today Stardock head man Brad Wardell posted up word on the game's web site that a few folks are getting to play the game even before the beta begins.
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26 Mar 2009

New Stardock Tech 'Throws Goo on DRM,' Allows Gamers to Resell Downloaded Games

PC News from N4G | Elemental: War of Magic

PC - Elemental: War of Magic - New Stardock Tech 'Throws Goo on DRM,' Allows Gamers to Resell Downloaded Games

Shacknews writes: "Elemental: War of Magic developer and Sins of a Solar Empire publisher Stardock today unveiled Goo, a new technology that the company claims will solve common publisher and consumer complaints with digitally distributed games and DRM.

Short for "Game Object Obfuscation," Goo will let developers 'encapsulate their game executable into a container that includes the original executable plus Impulse Reactor, Stardock's [suite of developer tools], into a single encrypted file.'"
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4 Feb 2009

Interview : Stardock to develop new RPG, resume Society production

PC News from N4G | Elemental: War of Magic

PC - Elemental: War of Magic - Interview : Stardock to develop new RPG, resume Society production

Chris Remo from Gamasutra writes:

"Independent developer and publisher Stardock is nearly doubling its staff -- and CEO Brad Wardell tells Gamasutra the expansion will allow the company to develop a new RPG title as well as restart development on its dormant RTS/MMO hybrid Society.

Part of the plan includes a new 53-person development team, which is to begin work on a new, as yet unannounced, roleplaying game. Stardock's current main team, responsible for the Galactic Civilizations series as well as the upcoming Elemental: War of Magic, will refocus on Society as soon as it wraps up development on Elemental early next year.

Wardell declined to elaborate on the untitled RPG, given its current unscheduled -- likely far-off -- release period. But in an interview with Gamasutra last year, Wardell alluded to plans for a new development team and referenced BioWare as a touchstone."
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