The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

Oblivion: Four Years Later

Having only recently fired up The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, one of the editors over at Just Push Start gives us his fresh perspective of Bethesda’s four-year-old RPG. Role-playing games are meant to be role played, a gameplay experience many…

The Oblivion Project, Part One

One of the editors over at Game Judgment has begun a new diary series, during which he’ll be chronicling his adventures through a mod-free The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion in an attempt to determine if it’s “still a great game”.…

Morrowind, Oblivion, and Fallout 3 GotY Editions For Cheap

To celebrate the newly announced pre-order incentives for Fallout: New Vegas, the Game of the Year Editions of The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, and Fallout 3 have been slashed by a significant margin on Valve’s…

Unconfirmed: The Elder Scrolls V to be Announced at E3

According to a report on Abstract360, the latest issue of Famitsu magazine claims that Bethesda Softworks is going to be revealing a “secret” title at this year’s E3. Their assumption is that it will be The Elder Scrolls V (or…

Gaming’s Best Open Worlds

NowGamer has put together a three-page editorial that profiles what they feel are the “best” open worlds we’ve ever roamed through while playing a video game. The first 25 years of video game history is completely overlooked, which means that…

Voice Acting is Killing the RPG

Using Fallout and Planescape: Torment as examples of RPGs that truly present players with choice and Fallout 3 and The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion as examples of those that do not, The Escapist’s Shamus Young blames the advent of fully…

PC Gamer Readers’ Top 20 PC Games

PC Gamer held an “epic survey” amongst readers to determine the best PC games of all time, and has published the top 20. It’s a sobering read, but at least it’s RPG-heavy, featuring Baldur’s Gate II: Shadows of Amn (#18),…

Bethesda Softworks Interview

The editors at MCV UK chatted up Bethesda’s Pete Hines during his European tour about a variety of topics related to Fallout 3, Fallout: New Vegas, Hunted: The Demon’s Forge, and The Elder Scrolls. A couple of excerpts: Fallout 3…

Bethesda Softworks Expands in Europe

Bethesda Softworks sent out a press release this afternoon announcing that they’ve opened new offices in Paris, France and Frankfurt, Germany.  Preparing for the future, I suppose: BETHESDA SOFTWORKS EXPANDS GLOBAL OPERATIONS Bethesda Softworks Opens Offices in France and Germany…

The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion Retrospective

Calling it “the best Western RPG made this generation”, The Koalition has published what can only be described as a very enthusiastic retrospective for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. The game world, plot, quests, and player freedom are each given…