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Daily Mirror
06-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
Oblivion Remastered becomes one of the year's biggest games with one week, no marketing and a dream
After only a week on the market, Oblivion Remastered became one of the best-selling games of the year without a shred of marketing before launch, proving that the RPG still has serious legs. Oblivion Remastered has been a blast for RPG fans new and old, and it has made such an impact that it is already contesting 2025's gaming giants for sales numbers shortly after its launch. The worst-kept secret in gaming is now revealed for all to see – Oblivion Remastered, an entirely restructured and rebuilt edition of the Elder Scrolls classic RPG, is in our hands. A new Bethesda adventure has been on the cards for some time, and as players have been holding out for anything pertaining to The Elder Scrolls 6, the remaster didn't arrive a moment too soon. The hype for the game has given way for the excitement of rediscovering the best of Tamriel, and players are getting lost in the game's many winding, twisting quests – to such a degree that Bethesda is currently enjoying a pretty great influx of interest and income. It looks like we're about to have a real Oblivion Summer, as sales numbers for the remastered games are pretty incredible. Oblivion makes a superhuman effort According to video game analyst Mat Piscatella in a new BlueSky post, the Circana Retail Tracking Service has revealed that Oblivion: Remastered has, in only one week, become the third best-selling game in the United States in 2025. It trails behind Monster Hunter: Wilds and Assassin's Creed: Shadows, games that have already had more time on the market. It is, as you can imagine, the best-selling game of the week in which it launched. This news comes after the game hit the remarkable concurrent player number of 216,784 on Steam (via SteamDB), as players forewent its appearance on Xbox Game Pass for PC and opted for Valve's service instead, playing it there in their droves. This is a pretty big deal, as it is likely to make for a heaving profit for Bethesda who outsourced the game's work to third-party developer Virtuos, proving that the company's classics still have incredible demand (providing they get a new lick of paint first). Fascinatingly, though, the game didn't receive a higher number of concurrent players than Starfield at its peak, which enjoyed a concurrent player number of 330,723 when it launched (via SteamDB). This is likely a result of the total lack of marketing and the surprise-launch of Oblivion Remastered, but that doesn't mean that players aren't still rushing to the title, especially across Xbox and and PlayStation consoles. It's easy enough for us as gamers to complain that nothing much is original these days, but with numbers like this, it's hard to deny that the system works, and the same players moaning will still buy the remasters put before them. Don't worry, we'll be buying them all too.
Metro
02-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Metro
The Elder Scrolls 6 is still on the way - here's what we know so far
Bethesda's sequel to The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim has been in development for years, but several rumours have teased what to expect. It's been 14 years since The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim first appeared in 2011, and since then Bethesda has done everything but release a sequel. Aside from putting Skyrim on every platform under the sun, the studio has released Fallout 4, Fallout 76, several The Elder Scrolls spin-offs, and a new sci-fi IP in 2023's Starfield. Just recently, Bethesda also launched a remastered version of The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion, presumably as a stop-gap for the next mainline instalment. For many who are still playing Skyrim, and now Oblivion Remastered, The Elder Scrolls 6 is probably one of the most anticipated games of the decade. If you're craving some kind of solace during the long wait for its release, we've assembled everything we know about Bethesda's pivotal sequel. Incredibly, The Elder Scrolls 6 was announced way back on June 10, 2018 at Bethesda's E3 event that year. Nothing was shown apart from a teaser trailer which showed off the logo, and a nondescript landscape. At the time, the game's director, Todd Howard, warned it would be 'a very long way off', and he wasn't lying. Since then, we've heard small updates on the game's progress. The Elder Scrolls 6 entered active production at Bethesda in 2023, following the release of Starfield, and it was playable via early builds in March 2024. As confirmed in a Telegraph interview with Todd Howard, the long-awaited sequel will also run on Bethesda's Creation Engine 2, the same engine used for Starfield (so, yes, that probably means the facial animation will still be bad). Bethesda has not announced a release date for The Elder Scrolls 6. However, according to Microsoft documents in the Federal Trade Commission case from 2023, the sequel is 'expected 2026 or later'. This was immediately put into question when Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer said it would be 'five+ years away' in an interview in the same year – which suggests it wouldn't be out until 2028 at the earliest and, at that point, presumably on the next generation of consoles. Considering we've seen no actual footage of The Elder Scrolls 6, it's safe to say it will probably launch at some point after 2026 – unless Bethesda is planning the biggest surprise shadowdrop of all time. Bethesda hasn't revealed the setting, but rumours point to it either being Hammerfell and/or the neighbouring region of High Rock. Each mainline entry is named after an existing area within the fictional world of Tamriel, which is made up of nine provinces, and these two areas have not received their own mainline game yet. As for the gameplay, several rumours suggest dragons will be involved, along with naval battles, ship customisation, and underwater exploration. A leak from an alleged Bethesda environment designer suggests it will have Egyptian, Mediterranean and north African influences too in an 'explorable archipelago'. While Bethesda hasn't confirmed if The Elder Scrolls 6 will be exclusive to Xbox, following Microsoft's acquisition of the studio, documents released in 2023, as part of the FTC case, suggest that was the original plan. More Trending However, Xbox's strategy has changed quite drastically since then, with many Microsoft-published games now arriving on other platforms either at launch or just after. For example, Doom: The Dark Ages is set to launch across PlayStation 5, Xbox, and PC simultaneously in May 2025, while Indiana Jones And The Great Circle arrived on PlayStation 5 just four months after it launched on Xbox and PC. Bethesda's last major role-playing title, Starfield, has remained an Xbox exclusive for nearly two years though, so there's no clear rule at the moment. While it's unclear if this multi-platform drive could reverse as we approach Microsoft's next console, based on its current strategy it seems unlikely The Elder Scrolls 6 will remain an Xbox exclusive for long – if at all. Email gamecentral@ leave a comment below, follow us on Twitter, and sign-up to our newsletter. To submit Inbox letters and Reader's Features more easily, without the need to send an email, just use our Submit Stuff page here. For more stories like this, check our Gaming page. MORE: Games Inbox: Will all video games be £80 from now on? MORE: Iconic Sega composer retires after 41 years, is immediately rehired MORE: Xbox games facing new £80 price tag as console prices rise by £50
Metro
24-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Metro
Fallout 3 remaster needs major improvements says former designer
One of Fallout 3's original designers has explained what the priority should be for the game's rumoured remaster. Even if it hadn't leaked ahead of time, the announcement of The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered wouldn't have been too surprising, considering The Elder Scrolls 6 is still years away and Microsoft needs something to fill the gap. It's why the same can be assumed for Bethesda's other role-playing game series Fallout, since the Amazon TV show attracted a lot of new fans and the next game, Fallout 5, is even further away. As such, rumours of Microsoft and Bethesda planning a Fallout 3 remaster sound perfectly believable and one of its original designers knows exactly what it needs to please modern players. Recently, VideoGamer sat down with one Bruce Nesmith, a former Bethesda employee who worked on Fallout 3 and several other Fallout and Elder Scrolls games during his tenure, including The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim as its lead designer – until his departure from the studio in 2021. When asked what he would like to see from a Fallout 3 remaster, Nesmith's chief expectation is that Bethesda would update the gunplay and bring it more in line with how it is in its sequel, Fallout 4. Nesmith candidly describes Fallout 3's gunplay as 'not good,' which he attributes to it being the 'the first time they ever tried to do a shooter style game.' As a reminder, the first two Fallout games (which were made long before Bethesda acquired the series) are more traditional computer role-playing games with turn-based combat, rather than the real-time gun combat seen in Fallout 3 and 4. Nesmith says Fallout 3's combat 'didn't hold up to shooters at the time. … But a lot of work was done on that for Fallout 4. So I anticipate seeing a lot of that work go into it, assuming they're doing the same thing.' Fallout 4's combat was an improvement over its predecessor but it was still pretty awful, compared to an actual first person shooter, and relied heavily on the V.A.T.S. system, which pauses the action to allow you to target individual body parts. Although evidence of a Fallout 3 remaster was first discovered in 2023, courtesy of leaked documents from Microsoft, there is no telling when Microsoft aims to have it out. Last week, reliable insider NateTheHate only claimed that the Fallout 3 remaster is 'Planned but won't be for a while.' This could mean it hasn't even entered development yet, but it could just as easily mean it may not come out until next year. More Trending 2026 would be a smart time to release a Fallout 3 remaster since that's when the second season of the TV show is scheduled to air. With the second season taking the show to the city of New Vegas though, a remaster of Fallout: New Vegas would make more sense, especially since it's lauded as the best entry in the series by many fans. It's not as if it'd be difficult to get the idea off the ground either since New Vegas developer Obsidian Entertainment is owned by Microsoft and has expressed interest in giving the game the remaster treatment. Obsidian is currently busy with The Outer Worlds 2, which is coming out later this year, but it clearly has the capacity to juggle multiple projects considering it launched Avowed, a fantasy role-playing game, just a couple of months ago. Email gamecentral@ leave a comment below, follow us on Twitter, and sign-up to our newsletter. To submit Inbox letters and Reader's Features more easily, without the need to send an email, just use our Submit Stuff page here. For more stories like this, check our Gaming page. MORE: Atomfall review – Fallout in the Lake District is a fun nuclear disaster MORE: Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered teased for Switch 2 as it tops sales charts MORE: Get 10% off Doom: The Dark Ages and nine extra games for less than £22
Metro
23-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Metro
The top eight Elder Scrolls games ranked from worst to best
With a remaster of the fourth game out this week, GameCentral looks back at the best entries in Bethesda's The Elder Scrolls series. Out of all the franchises Bethesda has under its belt, The Elder Scrolls is perhaps its most important. In its early days, the studio was primarily making sports games and movie tie-ins, with 1994's The Elder Scrolls: Arena marking its first venture into the role-playing genre. Since then, both the series and Bethesda itself have ballooned into industry juggernauts. So much so, that there's feverish excitement for The Elder Scrolls 6 despite there been next to no information about it. With a remaster of The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion just released, let's take a look back through the series' history and rank its best entries. Originally designed as an expansion pack for The Elder Scrolls 2: Daggerfall, An Elder Scrolls Legend: Battlespire was ultimately sold as a separate spin-off with more of a focus on dungeon crawling. While not the worst Elder Scrolls game ever (that'd probably be mobile title The Elder Scrolls: Blades), Battlespire's limited scope, more linear structure, and limited role-playing elements do make it a hard sell. It's less than £5 on Steam, though, so there's little harm in trying it. For the series' second spin-off, Bethesda opted to make a third person action adventure game; one with a named protagonist and a linear story. While that may sound like a turn-off for some fans, Redguard does have a few things going for it, although mostly in terms of atmosphere rather than gameplay. Like Battlespire, it's incredibly cheap nowadays and potentially worth experiencing because its setting of Hammerfell is purportedly being used for The Elder Scrolls 6. Unsurprisingly, the very first Elder Scrolls game hasn't aged too gracefully, over the last 30 years, but it had to have done something right to spark numerous sequels. It was impressively dense at the time, sporting a huge open world jam-packed with quests to complete and dungeons to explore. It can be unforgiving to newbies during its early hours, but it's still worth experiencing as a point of historical interest, if nothing else. While The Elder Scrolls: Arena relied on procedural generation for its cities and dungeons, the sequel offered set locations to explore, and it was all the better for it. Daggerfall was an overall improvement in every way, not forcing you to follow questlines and allowing you to simply live in the huge world Bethesda had crafted. Between its many quests to complete, guilds to join, and customisation options, it's no wonder it was deemed one of the best role-playing games of all time when it was originally released. We're honestly not too sure where to include The Elder Scrolls Online in this ranking, since as an MMO it's always evolving and despite the same setting and similar gameplay is a very different experience to the other single-player titles. While it was deemed pretty average when it launched, subsequent expansions and updates have improved things greatly over the last decade, while adding in numerous new regions, characters, and creatures – to the point where all of the settings from the mainline games can now be found in The Elder Scrolls Online itself. Although no formal release date has been given, the popular assumption is that The Elder Scrolls 6 will launch in 2028 at the earliest, based on comments made by Xbox boss Phil Spencer. The Elder Scrolls 6 was announced with a teaser trailer in 2018. However, Bethesda has provided very few updates on its progress since then. What we do know is that it will retain the levelling system seen in The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim, with Todd Howard returning to direct it. As of March 2024, playable builds of the game do exist and, this past February, Bethesda held a charity auction for fans to bid on the chance to appear in The Elder Scrolls 6 as a non-playable character. There were plans for The Elder Scrolls 6 to launch as an Xbox exclusive, according to internal Microsoft emails, but those have likely been abandoned considering Microsoft's current multiplatform strategy. As such, you can expect The Elder Scrolls 6 to launch for Xbox Series X, PlayStation 5, PC, and perhaps Nintendo Switch 2. Many fans would argue that The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind is the best game in the series but the problem is it's over 20 years old now and it is showing its age. Oblivion is the one that's just got a remaster but it's Morrowind that desperately needs a full remake, so modern audiences can properly appreciate it. Morrowind is a considerably more complex role-playing game than Oblivion and Skyrim, with much more detailed systems than its action-orientated successors. That means it's not nearly as accessible, and the combat is bad even by Bethesda standards, but the storytelling and sense of freedom is arguably the best the series has ever been. Before Oblivion, The Elder Scrolls was a relatively obscure franchise, that had seen little mainstream success. That all changed with the fourth mainline entry, which successfully refined everything that had come before. It streamlined the interface and role-playing elements and beefed up the combat, transforming the series into the household name it is today. More Trending It's also fondly remembered for its full voice acting, which often borders on unintentionally hilarious, and the introduction of more advanced computer-controlled allies. The remastered version is close to a full remake, further improving the UI and graphics to modern standards. Yes, Bethesda has re-released The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim so many times it's become a running joke, but that doesn't change the fact that it's one of the best Western style role-players ever made. Fans can debate over the minutiae of the story, characters, and worldbuilding, but Skyrim is mechanically superior to its predecessors, with a giant world that's always fun to explore and packed with interesting and unexpected things to see and do. Many fans have put hundreds of hours into it and there's still a thriving mod community creating new content. That doesn't mean a follow-up isn't long overdue but it's a testament to Skyrim's quality that it's kept fans sated for this long. Email gamecentral@ leave a comment below, follow us on Twitter, and sign-up to our newsletter. To submit Inbox letters and Reader's Features more easily, without the need to send an email, just use our Submit Stuff page here. For more stories like this, check our Gaming page. 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Daily Mirror
22-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
Oblivion Remastered is out right now – it isn't on Xbox Game Pass, but it is on PS5 and Steam
Gaming's worst-kept secret has finally been officially revealed as Bethesda drops the reveal trailer for Oblivion Remastered, set to drop incredibly soon. Bethesda has dropped its new Oblivion Remastered trailer after a month stuffed with leaks and teases, and we thankfully don't have long to wait until we can return to the adventure across Tamriel. It's finally happened! The Elder Scrolls franchise just got a little bigger in the absence of The Elder Scrolls 6, as Bethesda has officially revealed the arrival of Oblivion Remastered, a new take on the classic RPG game from third-party developers Virtuos. The classic RPG has a place in gaming's history books for a reason, but there's no denying that it has aged since it launched in 2006. Visually, the game offered a pretty gnarly barrier to modern players, with a UI that many struggled to parse after playing the far more intuitively designed Skyrim. It's a shame, as there are some fantastic stories behind the difficult layer of age – and now, thanks to Virtuos and Bethesda, there's a new chance to get stuck in and offer a chance to play through the revered fantasy adventure with a new lick of paint. The new showcase shared an exciting new look at the game with Todd Howard and the title's team, breaking down the initial impact of the game at the time and taking a deeper look at the inner workings of the new remaster. The new visual changes made to Oblivion are looking remarkable, practically reinventing the atmosphere of the title. So, what exactly did Bethesda reveal to be the day that we can finally return to Tamriel for a fresh adventure? Well, the answer might shock you. You might want to get your wallet out. Oblivion Remastered is out now The Oblivion Remastered release date has been revealed to be today, with the game now live on Xbox Series X |S, Steam and PS5 shortly after the showcase, although shockingly, not available for free on Xbox Game Pass Ultimate. it looks like the leaks were right – it has shadow-dropped and is available to buy on the Xbox store right now. The game's standard edition comes with the digital base game, the Shivering Isles and Knights of the nine story expansions, as well aws the Fighter's Stronghold expansion, Spell Tome Treasures, Vile Lair, Mehrune's Razor, The Thieves Den, Wizard's Tower, Orrery, and Horse Pack Armor. It is an approximate size of 123.2GB on Xbox Series X|S. It's no doubt a huge deal for The Elder Scrolls to bite back in such a way, and as many players have packed away Avowed by now, it's immaculate timing from Bethesda. It looks like we're heading back to Tamriel on the Oblivion Remastered release date, and to tell you the truth, we couldn't be happier about it.
