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.
NowGamer: Oblivion's character models not returning to Skyrim.
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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.
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...
It's over. Humanity has screwed it up. We've gone too far and are henceforth running on the karma fumes of previous positive endevours as the plane goes down over the volcano of societal devolution. The scales are forever tipped against us. The sides of the pit are greased and ever-heightening. We, as a species, have f*cked it.
The reason? We are still buying the most useless, over-priced piece of DLC in video game history, a full half-decade after we all realised it was worthless upon its release.
OXM UK: According to Bethesda's Pete Hines, Oblivion's infamous DLC pack still sees sales.