Tag: Bethesda
News Oblivion PS5 Remaster Expected to Have Overhauled Gameplay, Based on Older Leaks
Better than ever
Now that we know the Oblivion remake is real (technically it's a remaster, according to the leaked materials), plenty of overhyped onlookers have been asking whether the revival will feature improved gameplay systems and mechanics. Oblivion is, after all, approaching its 20th anniversary, and in terms of character progression and...
News Oblivion PS5 Remaster Is Real as New Screenshots Leak
Image files found on Virtuos website
The imminent reveal of a remastered version of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion has now leaked via Virtuous' website; the heavily rumoured edition is now — without doubt — a real thing. Screenshots and marketing materials have been found. Its official name is The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered, and...
News PS5's Worst Kept Secret Could Now Be Days Away
Bitter Oblivion
You’ve already heard about Bethesda’s Oblivion remake because we’ve written about it several times at this point. Several relatively reliable industry insiders have teased an April release for the title, and now Giant Bomb’s Jeff Grubb has said we can expect it at some point during the week commencing 21st April. That’s...
PS5 whips Indy adventure into shape
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle has finally landed on PS5, after a brief period of Xbox, PC exclusivity. We’ve been keen to get our hands on the latest from MachineGames, the team behind the Wolfenstein series, and now with DualSense haptics and even a PS5 Pro enhanced version, PS5 is the best place to...
News Microsoft Short Changes Indiana Jones PS5 by Only Putting 20GB on the Blu-ray
Physical copies won't work without a download
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle takes up a whopping 125GB of PS5 SSD storage space, so squeezing it onto a single Blu-ray was never going to happen. Discs for Sony’s system can hold up to 100GB, and some developers have worked around these limitations by shipping their software on two discs...
News Microsoft Makes PS5 Pro the Best Place to Play Indiana Jones
Xbox also posts the PS5 launch trailer
Sony's upgraded PS5 Pro system will be the best place to play Indiana Jones and the Great Circle on console hardware from next week, as Microsoft has shared the sort of support owners can look forward to when the PS5 port releases on 17th April 2025. In addition to the new PS5 launch trailer (embedded above),...
Talking Point What Do We Actually Want from the Oblivion Remake?
You are the one from my dreams
Look, we're sick of writing about the rumours and you're probably sick of reading about them, but with the seemingly inevitable announcement incoming, we wanted to take a step back and ask: what it is that we actually want from the Oblivion remake? Originally released for the Xbox 360 and PC all the way back in 2006...
News Indiana Jones and the Great Circle Download Size Is Still Massive on PS5
A great big circle
If you were expecting the PS5's compression tech to work wonders on Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, we've got bad news for you. The action adventure weighs in at a whopping 132GB on Xbox Series X, and it ain't much better on PS5. As per the ever-reliable PlayStation Game Size on X (formerly Twitter), it's a 125GB download on...
News Oblivion PS5 Remake Rumours Are Relentless, Claims of April Shadow Drop
Reveal and release all at once
Claims of a PS5 remake for RPG classic The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion simply won't go away, as another rumour adds to the speculation of an April 2025 announcement and release all at once in the form of a shadow drop. Discussing on his daily gaming news podcast, Giant Bomb member Jeff Grubb (via VGC) added to the...
Rumour Oblivion Remake About to Be Revealed as Old Oblivion Listings Are Updated
Here we go
We've going to be very happy when the supposed Oblivion remake is finally announced. Not because it's actually real, but because we won't have to cover these increasingly tedious rumours. The latest 'insider' information to do the rounds originates on social media (of course). A user by the name of Detective Seeds — who, to be fair,...
Round Up DOOM: The Dark Ages Previews Hype Up a Slower But Bigger PS5 Prequel
Stand and fight
A batch of hands-on previews have arrived for the hotly anticipated DOOM: The Dark Ages, and it sounds like it'll be worth the wait. This prequel to the modern DOOM series is set for launch on 15th May, 2025, and while that's not very long to wait, these previews have us counting down the days. Overall, sentiment is very positive...
News Starfield Could Have Released on PS5 Already, Work Has Been Ongoing for a While
May this journey lead us Starfield
Bethesda’s epic space opera Starfield, a game which was once described as “one of the most important RPGs ever made”, could have released on PS5 already. At least that’s according to well-connected Microsoft reporter Tom Warren, who was speaking as part of the Xbox Two Plus One podcast, where he implied...
News Bethesda, Xbox Played to the PlayStation Crowd with Indiana Jones PS5's Reveal
They knew what they were doing
We didn’t expect Indiana Jones and the Great Circle’s full PS5 reveal to be quite so big budget. But credit to Bethesda and Xbox: it knew exactly what it was doing with this. The trailer, for those of you who haven’t seen it, features Harrison Ford stand-in Troy Baker and Uncharted actor Nolan North. Throughout...
News Indiana Jones PS5's Physical Release Requires You to Download the Game
Blank discs
In apocalyptic news for those concerned about game preservation, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle will require an Internet connection – even if you purchase the physical PS5 release, due out on 17th April. Small print for the game’s Collector’s Bundle – which includes the Premium Edition version of the game alongside an actual...
News Indiana Jones and the Great Circle Officially Out for PS5 on 17th April
PS5 Pro offers visual upgrades
Bethesda has revealed Indiana Jones and the Great Circle will launch for PS5 on 17th April 2025. The release date was announced in a new trailer starring Nolan North and Troy Baker, with the latter voicing Indiana Jones in the game. Check it out above. Pre-orders are now live on the PS Store, with the standard edition...
Full announcement due later today
We’ll get the full lowdown on the PS5 version of Indiana Jones and the Great Circle as early as tomorrow, 24th March. That’s according to uber-reliable Dealabs tipster billbil-kun, who’s rarely ever wrong about these things. On social media, he posted pictures of the game’s various retail editions,...
News Embrace the Ghoul Within with Fallout 76's Latest Update on PS4
Season 20 will melt your face off
Incredibly, Season 20 of continued support for Fallout 76 on PS4 went live today. In a first for Bethesda's storied franchise, players will be able to shrug off some of that necessary skin to become rad-loving Ghouls if they wish. After undergoing "Ghoulification", players will need to make some adjustments to how...
News Ex-Xbox System Seller Starfield Edges Ever Closer to PS5
PlayStation logo discovered on website
Prior to the release of Starfield, Xbox bigwig Sarah Bond described the game as “one of the most important RPGs ever made”. The latest from Bethesda would go on to receive a lukewarm reception, but hype for it ahead of launch was out of this world. There were rumours that Sony had been trying to sign the...
Rumour Oblivion PS5 Remake Releasing Next Month Appears More and More Likely
Update: Original leaker shares more
A PS5 remake of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion from Bethesda appears to be an inevitability at this point, and according to leaker NateTheHate and VGC, we won't have to wait long to play it. Rumours surrounding the project from earlier this year pointed towards a June 2025 launch, but in a new VGC report, it is...
News April Could Be a Colossal Month from Xbox on PS5
Almost too many games
There were rumours at the beginning of the year that April was looking like a good month for Xbox games on PS5, and that’s certainly beginning to look like the case. We already know Forza Horizon 5, the acclaimed open world racer, will make its PlayStation debut on 29th April, but there are also
News Indiana Jones and the Great Circle PS5 Release Date, Pre-Order Info Seemingly Leaked
Update: Apparently launching next month
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle has been confirmed for PS5 since last summer, and a recent age rating suggests it may finally be on the horizon. Released on Xbox and PC in December 2024, the PS5 port of MachineGames' first-person adventure title has now been rated by the ESRB, as pointed out by Wario64:...
News Game of the Year Contender Indiana Jones and the Great Circle Targeting April PS5 Release
A big month ahead
Xbox has said that first-person adventure game Indiana Jones and the Great Circle will release this spring on PS5, but it hasn’t committed to a particular date. However, a throwaway line in a The Verge article published by connected scribe Tom Warren may have narrowed down the window. In it, he points out that Microsoft is...
News This Is Probably the Most You'll Hear About The Elder Scrolls 6 for a While
Become an NPC in the game
The Elder Scrolls 6 was announced almost seven years ago, and we’re unlikely to actually see it in action for several more. Bethesda Game Studios has been keeping itself busy with Starfield, but the upshot is at least owner Microsoft has now effectively gone third-party. Anyway, the Skyrim sequel is at least still in...
It's probably happening
Bethesda’s space opera Starfield, famously cancelled on the PS5 after Microsoft’s multi-billion-dollar acquisition of the publisher, could still release on Sony’s console in the future. Speaking with reporter Destin Legarie, Xbox bigwig Phil Spencer was asked if the intergalactic RPG would be “staying put for the...
News DOOM: The Dark Ages, Clair Obscur Will Be Enhanced on PS5 Pro
Ninja Gaiden 4 highly likely, too
Two of the upcoming titles showcased during Xbox’s big Developer Direct [No, we’re not using the underscore – Ed] will play best on PS5 Pro. Well, that’s assuming you prefer to play on console and don’t have a beefy PC rig loitering around. The PS Store pre-order pages for first-person shooter DOOM: The...
News DOOM: The Dark Ages Rips and Tears PS5 This May in Biggest Entry Yet
Prequel brings the biggest DOOM game ever
Bethesda has today revealed DOOM: The Dark Ages will release for PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC on 15th May 2025. As part of a deep dive into the game's development, ideas, and structure in the just finished Xbox Developer_Direct, it was confirmed this prequel to DOOM (2016) and DOOM Eternal is a completely...
Random DOOM Ported to a New Portal, Now Playable Inside a PDF
Wonders never cease
We don't know where, or even if, the inherent need to port seminal shooter DOOM to the most unlikely hardware imaginable will ever cease. In any case, a high school student has somehow managed to convert id Software's eternally influential game to Portable Document Format (PDF), playable in a web-based browser. The future boss...
Rumour Oblivion Remake Isn't Just a Graphics Upgrade, It's a Full Gameplay Overhaul
By Azura, by Azura, by Azura!
The Oblivion remake rumours just refuse to dissipate, and so it's starting to seem more and more likely that the project is real. Indeed, a whole new report is doing the rounds today, which says that this isn't just some graphical upgrade — it's a proper remake, with overhauled gameplay systems and mechanics. This...
News The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion PS5 Remake Gets a Little More Potential Evidence
Keep scrolling
Just before the holiday season, rumours began swirling about a possible remake of classic RPG The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. Now, there's a bit of extra evidence that might back up this claim. Over on LinkedIn, a member of the Shanghai team at development company Virtuos has listed an "unannounced [Unreal Engine 5] PS5/XSX/PC...
Rumour The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Is Getting an Unreal Engine 5 Remake in 2025
Stop right there criminal scum!
Before the all-encompassing juggernaut that was and still is The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, there was The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. A classic open world RPG experience — which has been the source of countless internet memes over the years — Oblivion is still great fun to actually sit down and play, despite its...
News Gamers Drawn to Troy Baker's Mesmerising Indiana Jones Like Moths to Flame
And Todd Howard's palpable disdain
A prestigious voice actor with incredible range, Troy Baker has dominated the video game voice acting industry for nearly two decades and keeps booking new gigs. But it's not just video game developers who are enamoured with the charismatic leading man; even during a blind casting for Indiana Jones and the Great...
Round Up Indiana Jones Reviews Are Live, Mostly Very Strong
Xbox, PC ratings at an 86 on Metacritic
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle won't launch on PS5 for roughly another six months, but we can get a good sense of its overall quality now as the Xbox Series X|S, PC versions release. The review embargo has lifted, revealing a Metacritc rating of 86. Below you'll find a selection of scores and conclusions...
News Indiana Jones PS5's Launch Trailer Will Make the Spring 2025 Wait That Little Harder
Indy end, it doesn't even matter
As you all already know, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is coming to the PS5 next spring, which means many of you will have to wait a little longer to get your hands on the movie series spin-off. But obviously, with the Xbox Series X|S and PC release imminent, Bethesda has released a launch trailer to give you a...
News Indiana Jones PS5 'by Far' MachineGames' Biggest Undertaking
Several Indy movies worth of cinematic cutscenes
Wolfenstein developer Machine Games has revealed that the upcoming, once Xbox-exclusive Indiana Jones and the Great Circle will be the studio's biggest project by quite a margin. With almost four hours of cinematic cutscenes alone, that's like two Indiana Jones films on top of a very generous shooter...
News Indiana Jones Looks Like an Adventure Worth Waiting for on PS5
Looking like a Great Circle
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is the next title from MachineGames, and rather than blasting Nazis away with OTT weaponry in Wolfenstein, you'll be beating them up with shovels and rolling pins. Launching on PS5 next Spring after a brief period of Xbox exclusivity, publisher Bethesda has just put out a new gameplay...
News Indiana Jones PS5 Dev Going Very Well, No Comment on PS5 Pro Just Yet
"It's coming out next spring, right?"
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle will launch later this year on Xbox and PC, but it’s coming to PS5 early next year. And as part of a round of previews released earlier today, creative director Jens Andersson has commented on the progress of the PlayStation port. “We are obviously working on it,” he...
News Guns More of a 'Fallback Solution' in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
You must whip it
Machine Games' upcoming treasure-hunting adventure, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, will differ from contemporaries like Tomb Raider and Uncharted in more ways than one; guns are described as being more of a "fallback solution", as opposed to being Nathan Drake's primary verb. Speaking to Edge magazine (thanks,
News Indiana Jones Devs Are Hyped the Game's Coming to PS5
"Hurray," devs exclaim
MachineGames, the makers of the upcoming Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, are over the moon the game is coming to the PS5, as was announced at Gamescom last week. In an interview with Eurogamer.net, design director Jens Andersson cheered when asked about the port, which will
News Yep, Indiana Jones' PS5 Trailer Just Got Uploaded to the PlayStation Channel
A better outcome than Metaphor: ReFantazio
There’s very little beyond pure novelty to point out here, but Indiana Jones and the Great Circle’s latest trailer just got uploaded to PlayStation’s official YouTube channel. This is pertinent in a way because the MachineGames developed adventure was originally being built as a multiformat title,...
Preview As Uncharted Rests, Xbox Provides PS5 Adventure in Indiana Jones
We tune in for the Gamescom briefing
So, here we are: because of Microsoft's expanding multi-platform efforts, we're now in a position where we can provide an official Preview of an upcoming first-party game before it's even released on Xbox Series X|S. Indiana Jones and the Great Circle launches for current Xbox systems and PC this December, and...
News Indiana Jones PS5 Is a Huge Game with Many Secrets to Uncover
You can return to previous locations to explore more
It sounds like it’s going to take you dozens upon dozens of hours to complete Indiana Jones and the Great Circle on PS5, as the game will have many secrets to discover beyond the beaten path. While it sounds like it’ll be possible to mainline the title if you prefer, filling Indy’s notebook...
News Xbox Renegotiated Indiana Jones Deal to Exclude PS5, Then Ported It Anyway
Well that was a waste of time
If you want an insight into the shifting strategy at Xbox, then look no further than this: a little over a year ago, in June 2023, Bethesda boss Pete Hines told the Federal Trade Commission in court that his company had renegotiated its Indiana Jones deal with Disney to exclude the PS5. The Great Circle, originally
News Xbox's Indiana Jones and the Great Circle Comes to PS5 in Spring 2025
Whip-smart
It was rumoured shortly before Gamescom Opening Night Live, and now it's official: Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is coming to PS5. The news was confirmed just after the airing of the above new trailer for the game, which gives us a brief look at the gameplay of this first-person action adventure. While the Xbox version of...
Rumour Xbox's Indiana Jones Game Coming to PS5 in First Half 2025
Update: Some media have allegedly signed NDAs
Update: Insider Gaming is reporting that some media is already aware of Indiana Jones and the Great Circle’s target platforms, which include PS5. Writer Tom Henderson, citing unnamed media sources, claims NDAs on the subject have been signed, but it’s unclear if this information will be revealed...
News Get a BFG of Your Very Own with Physical DOOM Anthology Preorder on PS5, PS4
BFG stands for big, fun games
The DOOM Anthology is currently up for preorder, offering three decades of demon slaying in one convenient bundle on PS5 and PS4, and the physical edition comes with a nifty five-inch BFG replica, replete with LED lights and a stand. Sadly, its currently only shipping to addresses in the US and Canada, and expected in...
News Iconic 90s FPS DOOM Adds All-New Campaign in PS5, PS4 Bundle
And it'll be free for many of you
Two of the greatest games of all time have been re-released on PS5 and PS4 – alongside a brand-new, original campaign created by id Software, Nightdive Studios, and MachineGames. Available right now, DOOM + DOOM 2 is free to download if you’ve ever purchased DOOM or DOOM 2 individually on PS4 before. For...
Random We Regret to Inform You DOOM Has Been Ported to a Sex Toy
Did anyone ask for Dong DOOM?
For some unknown reason, the human drive to port 1993 classic DOOM to anything with a microchip remains strong, even three decades later. Famously running on calculators, freezers, and even Microsoft Notepad, we regret to inform you that someone got it working on an off-brand Fleshlight, modified so that it vibrates...
News Tango Gameworks Employees Treated to Pizza Party as Studio Officially Closes Doors
Sombre look at the developers last day
The decision to close The Evil Within, Ghostwire: Tokyo, and Hi-Fi Rush developer Tango Gameworks came down in April, which was already a gut punch, but it hits even harder when seen from the point of view of employees who called the studio home. On Friday, developer Takeo Kido shared images of the studio's...
News Xbox Boss Phil Spencer Says DOOM Franchise Is Something That 'Everyone Deserves to Play'
Planned for PlayStation years ago
DOOM: The Dark Ages was just revealed and looks absolutely spectacular. In fantastic news for the PlayStation faithful, id Software's next explosive shooter has been announced as coming to PS5 on day one, and Xbox boss Phil Spencer has revealed to whom we owe this good fortune. Sitting down with IGN's Ryan...
News Huge Free Fallout 76 Expansion Hopes to Capitalise on the TV Show's Success Next Week
Skyline Valley beckons
It’s crazy to think there was a time when we awarded Fallout 76 a 3/10 – but credit where credit’s due, the game’s come a long way since then. To be fair, the improvements couldn’t have come at a better time: the title’s now enjoying a resurgence in popularity, following the success of Amazon’s television show...