While doing a little domain crawling, Voodoo Extreme noticed that ZeniMax Media, the parent company of Bethesda Softworks, recently purchased ElderScrollsOnline.com. Combine this little acquisition with the fact that it recently opened up a online game division headed up by Mythic co-founder Matt Firor.
There are some new free in game content for oblivion out on Xbox Live Marketplace and the content is called The Fighter's Stronghold and its size is 9.61 MB. It's available in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom and United State and is rated M for Mature. Here is some information about the content: Become the Lord of Battlehorn Castle; a sprawling stronghold nestled deep in the Colovian Highlands.
Fighter's Stronghold gives you none other than your very own Castle, complete with a troop of knights to defend it, a secret treasure vault, a wine maker to brew special potions, a combat trainer to spar with, and even a taxidermist to fashion sculptures out of your most impressive kills.
Bethesda Softworks sent over a note announced they will release their last downloadable content extra for 2006's fantasy RPG The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. The download, titled Fighter's Stronghold, will launch on Oct. 15 for both the PC and Xbox 360 versions and for the first week will be free to download.
Celebrating the recent Japanese release of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion on the PS3 and Xbox 360, Bethesda has been speaking to the Japanese press about the development and localisation process behind the massive-world RPG
Bethesda has released information on several upcoming products which will be available on store shelves this week. The Japanese will get the PlayStation 3 version of Oblivion, the Xbox 360 version was released several months ago and has been reported to be selling well so they hope the PS3 version will do the same.
Bethesda Softworks sends word that The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Game of the Year Edition has been shipped to stores and will be for sale starting on Tuesday. Oblivion GotY includes the original version of Oblivion, along with the official expansion, The Elder Scrolls IV: Shivering Isles, and the downloadable content, Knights of the Nine.
For the people who aren't connected to Xbox Live, here's some good news: Bethesda Softworks announced today that it will release The Elder Scrolls IV: Shivering Isles for the Xbox 360 at retail.
PS3's Hot Shots Golf 5 sells 180k. Xbox 360's Oblivion reaches to number 6 while The Legend of Zeld: Phantom Hourglass falls to the last place.
After Blue Dragon and Eternal Sonata, it seems another 360 RPG, Oblivion, is causing a bit of a stir in Japan.
Gamestop is currently listing Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Game of the Year Edition at a price of $49.99 and expect it to ship as of 3rd September 2007.
The friendly people over at Bethesda Softworks and Ubisoft have given us three large Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion T-Shirts to giveaway in a competition...
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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¿