Latest about The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
I hope you like the tamer fantasy of Oblivion and Skyrim: lore master of 29 years says Todd Howard "gravitates not towards the weird stuff" and doesn't expect Morrowind-grade weirdness from The Elder Scrolls 6
News Skyrim wasn't "all that weird" either
Skyblivion isn't another Oblivion Remastered – lead says "we still have something to offer" as the project's devs have "more or less redesigned every aspect" of Bethesda's original RPG
News Here's "where the power of a proper remake comes from"
Bethesda-approved Skyblivion is suddenly more than just an exciting remake – it's a poster child for a potential game-changer for mods: one-click modding on GOG
News It's now easier than ever to mod your games
Oblivion Remastered lets you wipe out entire taverns of NPCs with ease, and I don't know how I missed this playing the original RPG for 19 years
News The Dark Brotherhood questline should've taught me better
It took Oblivion Remastered a single week to become the third best-selling game of 2025 behind Assassin's Creed Shadows and Monster Hunter Wilds
News Oblivion Remastered was also the best-selling game of that week, but that's less surprising
This Oblivion Remastered Easter egg is forcing me to confront a difficult truth about early 2010s meme culture: It was never funny, actually
News Millennial humor just doesn't hit like it used to
19 years later, Todd Howard is still a secret NPC in Oblivion Remastered, and he'll call you a bastard if you piss him off
News He'll also fall in love with you if you do the opposite of piss him off
Bethesda celebrates Oblivion Remastered by watching 19-year-old documentary about the making of the original, and Todd Howard says "this is gonna be really f***ing awkward"
News They all look so young!
As Oblivion Remastered introduces new fans to Bethesda's iconic 2006 RPG, ex-Elder Scrolls dev admits the level scaling system "was a mistake" eventually fixed in Skyrim
News The remaster is a bit "more playable," though
Oblivion features warring goblins as one quest designer thought turning a side quest's gimmick into a whole thing "wouldn't be a lot more work," but looking back he's not sure if that was "actually true"
News It might not have been easy to make, but the feature "certainly allowed for fun emergent gameplay"
