We recently sat down with Craig Krstolic, Associate Producer on Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, and took a guided tour through the fantastical world of Amalur. While watching him explore the seemingly massive open environments we asked about its actual size, and though he didn’t have the exact square footage for us (though he said he would look into it), he did offer a comparison that gives us a pretty good idea of how much land there will be to explore...
Someone took every book from Oblivion, and put them together into one giant leather hand bound book.
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The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion 5th Anniversary Edition is now available in retail stores across North America.
Shadowlocked - For those of you unfamiliar with the The Elder Scrolls franchise...where have you been? The game - which started its life as a DOS PC title back in 1994 (originally as a first person combat adventure, before its well-publicised switch to the RPG that we all know and love) - is still regarded by many as one of the greatest franchises of all time.
Discussing the forthcoming release of the 5th Anniversary Edition of Oblivion, PlayStation Future notes the fate of Trophy and DLC support for the PS3 version: Has Bethesda finally gone back to Oblivion to add Trophy Support? Could they have added support for the extra DLC at the same time? Alas, no.
Do you love (and yet not own) Bethesda's 2006 classic, Oblivion – inarguably one of the finest games of its generation? Are you looking forward to the sequel, Skyrim? Do you often offend the honor of 19th-century gentlemen? Then has Bethesda got a deal for you: a strictly limited re-issue of the Game of the Year version of Oblivion, containing among the requisite extras a $10-off coupon for Skyrim. Also, it's packaged in a sturdy steel book which can easily be hidden under your shirt or coat for a surreptitious, potentially life-saving advantage in your next pistol duel...
Bethesda has been blamed for a lot of things over the years, but this may be a first for the company. The video game publisher is currently being sued by a former U.S. Navy pilot, John McLaughlin, who claims that playing Oblivion: The Elder Scrolls IV lead to the loss of his flight status.
OXM writes: Speaking to OXM in a hot-off-the-press, detail-saturated interview, Bethesda's Todd Howard has confessed that the Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion sacrificed the feel of preceding game Morrowind in the interests of a refined and welcoming gameworld.