The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Game of the Year Edition (2009) News

The Elder Scrolls Online’s next expansion, dubbed Gold Road, is set to arrive this summer following a big reveal as part of last night’s big Xbox Developer Direct. The game is also getting a 15 month-long tenth birthday celebration, which seems a tad excessive (we're just jealous really).

Yes, it’s almost a decade since Zenimax looked at World of Warcraft (among others), looked at The Elder Scrolls, and thought something along the lines of ‘why not us, man?’. Despite not quite being the cup of tea of many single-player loving mainline Elder Scrolls fans, ESO’s amassed a pretty huge player base of MMO-enjoyers over the years, who’ll get to head on a new adventure in Cyrodiil this June.

Said adventure comes in the form of the Gold Road expansion, which you can check out a cool trailer for below. For veteran ESO players, it looks like Gold Road will serve as a bit of a follow-up to last year’s Necrom expansion, while offering the chance to explore some classic locations you’ll likely remember from Oblivion, in the form of the Imperial province’s West Weald region and its central city, Skingrad.

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There’s now a Fallout 4 mod that allows you to order a pizza from the Institute and have it delivered to you in very rapid fashion by a teleporting synth delivery boy.

Yes, this is an actual thing, and if you’ve decided to kick off another romp through The Commonwealth after watching the trailer for Amazon’s Fallout TV Series, it looks pretty perfect for keeping your Sole Survivor well-fed during their adventures. After all, who hasn’t ended up fancying a margarita while wandering through some irradiated ruins?

That seems to be the sentiment behind Hrodeberht1 and Bella’s ‘Syntho Pizza - Commonwealth Pizza Delivery’, which allows you to order a “rad-free pizza made from BioScience's best ingredients” and have it quickly delivered by a synth that’ll be teleported to your location. Or, as the mod’s description declares: “The Institute finally decided to actually do something useful for the future of mankind (or maybe it's just a PR stunt), and now offers pizza delivery to the people of the Commonwealth.”

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Given that it’s infamous for featuring some terrifyingly bizarre NPC encounters, Oblivion makes a pretty good game to play during spooky season, something the latest Skyblivion showcase proves.

For those who aren’t familiar, Skyblivion is the massive modding project that aims to remake the fourth entry in the Elder Scrolls series in Skyrim’s engine. The team behind it are currently set to finally release their incredible creation in 2025, but have been providing fans with plenty of previews and sneak peaks in the interim, with the latest of these showing off some of the mod’s most hair-raising elements.

The majority of the video, which you can watch in full here, provides a walkthrough of the fittingly blood-curdling Oblivion quest that sees the player seek out a cure for vampirism, which any adventurers who’ve ever accidentally stumbled into a dungeon full of fanged foes will definitely remember.

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The Elder Scrolls 6 is going to be a mixture of new ideas and RPG systems that go all the way back to The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion, according to Bethesda's former design director Bruce Nesmith, who was lead designer on The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim and senior designer on Starfield. In particular, Nesmith reckons it will "absolutely" continue with Skyrim's approach to levelling and progression, whereby you improved skills by performing the associated actions. He also thinks the game will "probably" retain elements of the magic system he designed for Skyrim, which broke away from Oblivion and Morrowind in being simpler to understand and more immediately powerful, at the price of flexibility and inventiveness.

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According to leaked documents, Microsoft are/were remastering Oblivion and Fallout 3. This is boring. The past decade of innumerable remasters has been boring enough, but remastering these two games is particularly boring. When even bother when all Bethesda have made since Oblivion is Oblivion remakes with added spacesuits or yelling? Boring. But while I think the torrent of remasters is a miserable sign of big publishers just giving up, if they're going to do it anyway: why not Morrowind?

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