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Bethesda Softworks Goes Full Steam Ahead
5:40AM Michael McWhertor | Steam users can now enjoy more of the fruits of Bethesda Softworks labour, as The Elder Scrolls series and Call of Cthulhu join Valve’s digital distribution service. Hardly shocking news, but news nonetheless. More »
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Steam Getting Oblivion, Morrowind
1:30PM Luke Plunkett | Looks like Bethesda will soon be bringing a lot more than just Fallout 3 to Steam, with users spotting some advertisements on the service advertising games like Oblivion and Morrowind. More »
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Bethesda Teams With Del Rey For Elder Scroll Novels
12:40AM Brian Crecente | Elder Scroll Fans don’t worry, Bethesda hasn’t forgotten about you. More »
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Bethesda Rightsizes its DLC
1:00AM Owen Good | Fallout 3’s “The Pitt” and “Operation: Anchorage” - in terms of size and complexity - are where Bethesda wants to be with its DLC strategy, according to Bethesda’s marketing and PR vice president. More »
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Top Oblivion DLC Revealed, Horse Armour Surprisingly Popular
6:40AM Michael McWhertor | Bethesda Softworks’ campaign to incrementally squeeze money from The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion players has been a huge success. So much so that offering up downloadable horse armour wasn’t the flop it should have been. More »
Peter Molyneux Compares Oblivion and Fable 2, Killing And Social Diseases
11:00PM Brian Ashcraft | More Peter Molyneux talking. Here he goes, talk, talk, talk. And when he’s not talking about his new game Fable 2, he’s talking about other stuff. Today’s other stuff is his opinion of RPG Oblivion and comparing it to Fable 2. According to Molyneux: Well, Oblivion was a fantastic achievement. But for me, that was a true ‘blood and guts’ RPG. There was an initial dungeon that you went through that was fantastic — but then you came out into that open world, and I just thought: “What the hell do you do now? Where do you go? Who am I? What do I stand for? Who am I against?” And there was this huge, vast rolling story. And to finish Oblivion would take sixty or seventy hours. More »
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Patapon and Oblivion Get Budget Priced In Japan
8:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Sony Computer Entertainment announced two new entries in its “the Best” series: Patapon for PSP the Best and Oblivion for PLAYSTATION 3 the Best. Patapon is out September 25th for ¥2,8000 ($US 26) and Oblivion is out September 4th for ¥3,800 ($US 35). Wonder if you can get them cheaper used… More »
Fallout 3 Is So Better Than Oblivion, Say Bethesda
1:40PM Luke Plunkett | Having made both Oblivion and Fallout 3, when asked which of the two was the better game, you’d think Bethesda would remain a little impartial, no? Keep thigs civil, keep things amicable between the two franchises? Nope. Speaking in London last week, Bethesda’s Peter Hines went on record saying Fallout 3 > Oblivion. I have no doubts in my mind that, at its core and for everything that it provides that Fallout is a better game than Oblivion was. For sure…I don’t have any doubts that on the whole, and I think this is a belief universally shared on the team that Fallout is a better game. Better than one of the best games of all time? Oh Bethesda, you sure know how to set a man’s heart aflutter. Bethesda: ‘Fallout is a better game than Oblivion’ [Videogamer] More »Zero Punctuation On Oblivion
9:20AM Mike Fahey | Leave it to Yahtzee to make me feel bad about a game I spent over sixty hours exploring. I could have sworn I had thoroughly enjoyed myself back then, but now I’m not so sure. I suppose this is the double-edged sword of reviewing older titles. The week before last’s Painkiller review made me dig out my copy of that game, and now he has me pondering burying Oblivion. Of course no one has that much power, and I never did complete that last Shivering Isles godhood quest… Zero Punctuation [The Escapist] More »
