Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Virtuos

9 million people have played Oblivion Remastered, and you've gotta think that number has Bethesda looking at its other old games and drooling

That's a lotta closed Oblivion gates.

PC Gamer

Oblivion Remastered and Metal Gear Solid Delta co-developer Virtuos faces layoffs — with 270 workers cut

Virtuos, a company that's worked on games like The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered and Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, is hit with layoffs.

Windows Central

Oblivion Remastered dev team spared the worst of mass layoffs at Virtuos, studio claims as it "remains fully committed" to projects like Cyberpunk 2077 and Metal Gear Solid Delta

The layoffs include "fewer than 10 in France, where the core team working on Oblivion Remastered is located"

GamesRadar

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Virtuos helped make one of the year's best-selling video games. Now, 300 of its workers may be out of a job

The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered became the third-best-selling video game of 2025 in less than a week.

Fortune

Oblivion Remastered studio is reportedly laying off 300 people

Make a game that doesn't sell? Laid off. Make one of the best-selling games of the year? Would you believe it, also laid off.

PC Gamer

Studio behind beauties like Oblivion Remastered and Metal Gear Solid Delta is reportedly facing heavy layoffs in the games industry's latest demonstration that hits will not spare you

Support studio and remaster specialist Virtuos is reportedly next in line for layoffs

GamesRadar

Virtuos believes the GPU capabilities of the Nintendo Switch 2 and Xbox Series S are 'comparable', making it easier to port some games that run at 60fps to the new console

Port studio Virtuos believes that it would be easy to bring an Xbox Series S game to theNintendo Switch 2, considering their technical similarities.

TechRadar

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Cyberpunk co-developer says any 60 FPS Xbox Series can be easily ported to Nintendo Switch 2, despite the console being closer to a PS4 in terms of raw performance

Virutos, an industry veteran, has described the Switch 2 as being equal to an Xbox Series S with a better CPU than the PS4. Thanks to DLSS now being in the mix, any 60FPS Xbox Series S game should be easy to port to the Switch 2.

Tom’s Hardware

‘Oblivion Remastered’ Studio Head On Why The Unseen Side Of The Games Industry Is More Important Than Ever

Virtuos might not be a name you know, but it's had a hand in many of the biggest games, and Virtuos' CEO thinks co-development is a key part of gaming's future.

Inverse

After Oblivion Remastered, the best candidate for another Elder Scrolls remaster is probably too weird to get one

Opinion | Daggerfall remains the most fascinating Elder Scrolls, and also the most confounding

GamesRadar

Oblivion Remastered has a new texture error, and this one mucks up a gag from the original game

Several ups to be un-mucked, is the short and tall of it.

PC Gamer

I love The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered's new graphics, but appreciate everything else staying the same

The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered revisits Bethesda Game Studios' original game with new visuals and a few tweaks that make it a fantastic experience.

Windows Central

Bethesda wants you to suggest ideas for Oblivion Remastered, so get over there and tell it to add more shortcut slots and a difficulty between Adept and Expert

Plus, you know, any ideas of your own I guess.

PC Gamer

Ultra-faithful Oblivion Remastered inexplicably fouls up a key bit of Dark Brotherhood lore with a gussied-up door texture

They're, uh, adopted.

PC Gamer

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

Tom’s Guide

Oblivion is the first RPG I ever played — and this new remaster is more than I could have hoped for

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered is a wonderfully nostalgic trip back into my childhood, and it's all I want to play right now.

PC Gamer

Modders have torn apart Oblivion Remastered and found 'potential' for proper modding, but without tools from Bethesda we'll need 'a lot of reverse engineering work… before modding can be fully realised'

It won't be the same without Thomas the Tank Engine.

Windows Central

The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered — Xbox Game Pass, platforms, and everything you need to know

The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered is available now, so here's everything you need to know.

PC Gamer

Here are the best deals you can pick up in Fanatical's ongoing Level Up sale

There's no level cap on bargains. I don't actually know what that means.

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

PC Gamer

Fallout 3 developer says a remaster would have to improve the 'not good' gunplay

"It’s an RPG shooter, it’s not a run-and-gun shooter."

GamesRadar

With The Elder Scrolls 6 still MIA, Oblivion Remastered proves why remakes and remasters are the greatest tricks in the game developer handbook

Opinion | Oblivion Remastered demonstrates how nostalgia's illusory thrall helps studios buy time, money, and Brownie points

PC Gamer

OG Oblivion designer thought the remaster was just 'a texture update' until he laid eyes on it, and now he thinks we need a new word to describe it

Original Oblivion designer Bruce Nesmith reckons the remaster should be called "Oblivion 2.0."

TechRadar

The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion’s original game designer thought the remaster was going to be ‘a texture update’: ‘I’m not sure remaster actually does it justice’

Bruce Nesmith, the senior game designer for the original The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion, has shared his thoughts on Bethesda's new remaster.

PC Gamer

Fallout 3 Remastered seems almost inevitable now, but still a long way off

And like the big sucker that I am, I'd lap it up.

Inverse

Xbox Just Shadow Dropped A Stunning Remake From The Creators Of 'Skyrim'

'The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered' adds graphical improvements and gameplay tweaks, while keeping all the charming quirks of the 20-year-old original.

GamesRadar

PC gamers seem happy to pay $50 for Oblivion Remastered: it's already the global top-selling game on Steam, and it came out literally 40 minutes ago

Welcome back to Oblivion

1 2

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Bethesda Game Studios

123 stories

Brotherhood

59 stories

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.