Talkxbox reports that Bethesda has posted an update on their official site confirming that a new patch for The Elder Scrolls IV: Shivering Isles has been released. Included in the update is a list that outlines the patch's new features, bug fixes, and quest fixes. Details of the patch after the jump.
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.
Bethesda's Todd Howard hasn't spent the last year just picking up gongs for Oblivion. He's also been working on the company's take on classic RPG franchise Fallout. Colin Campbell reports¿
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".
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.
Its 993.75MB and 2400 Microsoft points.
Bethesda's upcoming Elder Scrolls expansion pack on the 360, available only by download, will be double the cost of existing Xbox Live titles.
In a recent interview with Gamertag Radio, design director of Oblivion Shivering Isles Bruce Nesmith let out some interesting details. When asked how Oblivion fans who don't have Xbox Live could get the Shivering Isles expansion pack, Nesmith admitted that they were working on a retail version. According to Nesmith, there will be a new special edition of Oblivion available at retail that will include all of the previously released content including the new Shivering Isles expansion. He also went on to say that there will be more downloadable content for Oblivion in the near future.