It's time to once again provide what keeps with "substantiating our repositories", and so freshly plucked quotes have now found their way into the archives. Even though some devs who frequent larger portions of our updates have slown down, they know how to keep us informed, interested and hungry for more -- particularly with regards to the magic system which recently had it's maiden revelations.
It's all good, and getting better. Enjoy this new update, adding quotes from July and August to the current batch.

TES:Oblivion Developer Quotes May - September, 2005

Today, we've put another stack of quotes on the table, consisting primarily of offsite posts, but also includes a few additions to the regular archives.

Collected from discussions covering a wide range of popular topics, the new offsite quotes are quite informative, and offer some new as well as clarifying information. Be sure not to miss this unique input, and enjoy.

TES:Oblivion Offsite Developer Quotes Febuary - September 2005

But, as mentioned, that's not all we have today; a detail, of particular interest and joy to many fans, regarding the fabled quest compass was recently confirmed on the official forums. In editor's oppinion, the posted tidbits surrounding the issue deserve a place among the current batch that also discusses the issue thoroughly.
Four new posts by MrSmileyFaceDude have been added to the current page of developer quotes.

TES:Oblivion Developer Quotes May - September, 2005

2005-09-15 - New Fan Art, X-BOX 360 release date announced
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We've just updated a part of Waiting4Oblivion that -I admit it and accept the full blame- we have sadly neglected for quite a while now: the Fan Art page. Three new pieces have been added, all sent in by Reika. Thanks Reika, and keep up the good work!

The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion Fan Art Update

In other news, the official release date for the X-Box 360 has been announced. So what does that have to do with Oblivion? Well, if you want to get Oblivion for the X-Box 360, these release dates will tell you how long you will have to wait at the very least to get the game, since Oblivion is hardly going to be released before it's target platform. For PC gamers, it is a good guess that the PC version will be released simultaneously with the X-Box 360 version, so there.

Official X-Box 360 Release Date Announcement

Stay tuned, folks, for tomorrow, we'll have some more stuff to gaze at. Until then, have a good time and enjoy!

As promised, today we have some more stuff to gaze upon: Our first update for today consists of four all-new fan-made wallpapers. Keep sending them in - I promise I will process them faster in the future, as I have a bit more free time these days

The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion Updated Fan Wallpapers

Our second update: three all new screenshots of the X-Box 360 version of Oblivion. Thanks to Bethesda Softworks, and keep 'em coming

The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion Updated Screenshots

Enjoy!

An update of Fan fiction has been added a few days ago. So hereby this post

"The British are coming..."

And we welcome them with open ears - three gentlemen in particular; Bethesda Softworks announced an additional lineup of voice-actors today, including Patrick Stewart ("X-Men", "Star Trek: Next Generation", "Star Trek: Nemesis") who provides the voice of the Emperor; Terence Stamp ("Star Wars: Phantom Menace", the "Superman" films) providing voice acting for parts of the ominous plot; and Sean Bean ("Lord of the Rings" trilogy, "National Treasure", "Goldeneye") providing the voice of the heir to the throne.
All three are held in legendary regards and will, alongside Lynda Carter ("Wonder Woman", "Sky High", "Dukes of Hazzard"), make out the game's cast of stars.

TES:Oblivion - press release announcing voice-talents
(refer also to linked invidiual pages about each voice actor)

In other news, CVG.com has posted a brief interview by PC Zone with artist Noah Berry, in which he talks about the environmental art of the game.

TES:Oblivion - PCZone interview with Noah Berry @ CVG.com

Today, Bethesda Softworks finally released the first piece of the Oblivion official soundtrack, the title theme, along with an announcement that the music is once again being done by Jeremy Soule, who also composed the Morrowind score as well as the score for other well-known computer games.

Elder Scrolls: Oblivion Main Theme (mp3, 2600 kb)

Bethsoft's Press Release regarding Jeremy Soule compising the Oblivion OST

Also, there is a new interview in town, and this one is rather in-depth compared to all the others we don't bother reporting about because they're just rehashing things we've heard about many times before. In this one, Gavin Carter gives a number of rather interesting information, for example he throws a new number of 1500 NPCs in the pot, replacing the old number of 'just' 1000 NPCs. There's also talk about technical issues, design choices and other interesting bits. The interview has been conducted by 'Elite Bastards'. Enjoy!

Elite Bastards interview with Gavin Carter

Long anticipated, it is finally here: the much-discussed promotional gameplay video of Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion has just been released 'into the wild' by Bethesda Softworks. Due to the incredible load on the Bethesda Webserver, we decided to mirror it here for your convenience. Enjoy!

Elder Scrolls: Oblivion Promotional Videos (wmv)

Wow. Just wow. After almost a year, Bethesda has released new Oblivion concept art. Where there were previously only 3 pieces out, now there are 12 (!) more. And what great stuff! The presentation is very sweet, the drawings are what you'd want to print out and put on the wall. If you enjoy this only half as much as I do, then this'll make your day

12 new pieces of Oblivion Concept Art

Rane and I have just finished updating the fansite links on Waiting4Oblivion.com. A lot of sites have been added, the structure has been improved in terms of usability, and a lot of foreign sites have been added. We also added links to several forums and TES lore sites. Enjoy!

W4O's Links to other Oblivion Fansites

Quoting Alexander:

Today the Developers of Bethesda Softworks have released two new items. To start off they've updated the race codex with new images of all the races, a new detailed map with all the provinces displayed on it and they've added the locations of the 9 major cities on their map of Cyrodiil.

The Elderscrolls races Codex

Secondly the developers have added a new book to their Codex. The very first book of the upcoming game The Elderscrolls 4; Oblivion. It's a good read and I don't want to spoil too much of it, so be sure to look it up.

The mysterium Xarxes, book one

What happens when you put off updating a part of the site for too long? That's right, you suddenly find yourself with a massive amount of things to add. Today's seeing the biggest update in fan art and fan wallpapers we've done so far: 12 new wallpapers and 4 new fan art pieces! Enjoy!

The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion Updated Fan Art - 4 new pieces
The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion Updated Fan Wallpapers - 12 new pieces

It's been a while since we last updated our Elder Scrolls Bestiary: our previous artist Ambberfox sadly no longer had the time to work on it, and we had to search long and hard to replace him. We finally found someone who is willing to take on this great job: the very talented Reika.

She and Sinder Velvin have just finished the latest addition to the Bestiary: an entry about one of my most favorite creatures, the nymph. I hope you enjoy it as much as we do

I'd like to take the time and express my gratitude to Ambberfox for his great work for this particular section of the site.

The Elder Scrolls Bestiary: The Nymph

Two new goodies today: Bethesda Softworks has just released three new XBox 360 screenshots - you may or may not have seen them already, at any rate, they're quite nice!

Three new Elder Scrolls: Oblivion screenshots

Secondly, Bethesda Softworks have updated their Elder Scrolls Codex again, adding information about birthsigns and skills. Quite interesting changes there, so be sure to check it out and enjoy!

Elder Scrolls Codex Update

Today, we have even more fan art for you: three great new works by Annie, and one by SnowSkadi that won a competition on the Russian fansite ElderScrolls.net. Links to ElderScrolls.net's fan art, fan art competition results and to more of SnowSkadi's excellent works are included. Enjoy!

Updated Elder Scrolls Fan Art Page - 4 new pieces

It was a year ago to the day that Waiting4Oblivion opened it's gates. To celebrate this momentous occasion, we've prepared some specials for you.

The first one is a breakdown of our history by yours truly that details how this site came into being, and that gives proper thanks to all those that contributed:

Birthday Special Writeup

Secondly, for your amusement I've uploaded a very early version of the site, with the design we had back when we opened the site:

Waiting4Oblivion.com: The beginning

Finally, as a little token of gratitude to our loyal visitors and users, and because it is more than overdue, I've added a search option to the site:

Search Waiting4Oblivion.com using Google ©

Woah, I actually remembered to post here for a change ;)


I've just uploaded several fan fiction stories to the site,

- The Risen Alchemis by Scrooluse
- Trey in Mournhold chapter 2, By Treydog
- Hack'n'Slash Monthly interview with a skeleton, by Momaw
- Home is where the Hearth is, by Burntsierra

You can all find them here:

http://waiting4oblivion.com/fan_fiction.html

Our second addition today are the three screenshots and the Developer Diary entry from the new Elder Scrolls Newsletter. If you haven't received it in your inbox and want to, hurry over to elderscrolls.com and sign up for it right now
Elder Scrolls: Oblivion Screenshots, 3 new additions
Oblivion Team Update: Brendan Anthony: "Magical Mystery Meat"

Russian Elderscrolls.net has a rather interesting interview up with Oblivion's interface designer Natalia Smirnova in which she talks about what inspired her when creating Oblivion's menus and controls. And don't worry, the interview is in English

Elderscrolls.net Interview with Oblivion Interface Designer Natalia Smirnova

Starting today, we're extending the following offer to serious Elder Scrolls: Oblivion mod projects:

* Web hosting - we will host your mod website with your own subdomain on our webserver, free of advertizing.
* Forum hosting - we will host your mod project's forum, again, free of advertizing.

If you are interested, simply email us at modhosting AT waiting4oblivion DOT com. Please provide a detailed description of your project, and a list of current members.

Hopefully, this will provide (additional) fertile ground for great mods to grow on Enjoy.

Finally. Phew. We've just finished compiling volume 6 of the developer quotes collection with what I believe to be a record number of 130 quotes. And people believe the devs don't talk to us anymore! These contain exciting new information from news about magic to things like the automap. Enjoy!

Developer Quotes Vol. 6 - Nov 1st 2005 - January 15th, 2006

After much waiting and forward-to-looking, Bethesda Softworks finally released their reply to another barrage of questions from visitors of the official Elder Scrolls Forums. Sixty questions were answered in varying detail. The entire interview as published is now available here on W4O. Enjoy!

Elder Scrolls: Oblivion Fan Interview III

Every now and then, an article on TES: Oblivion in a video gaming magazine is so interesting and so important that we get it, sample it and pick it to pieces to extract as much information as possible. Today, the german PC Games magazine published a 10 page feature on Oblivion, accompanied by 5:30 minutes of video material on the mag disk. We've written summary for both the interesting bits in the article itself, as well as a summary of what is in that video. Enjoy!

PC Games march issue preview summary
PC Games march issue video material summary

In case you haven't already seen this in the official Elder Scrolls Newsletter, Bethesda Softworks has added some new material on the Elder Scrolls: Oblivion Collector's Edition (available for both PC and XBox 360) on their site. One's a trailer for the "Making Of" DVD that comes with the CE box, the other is a team diary by Pete Hines, vice president of PR and marketing on the various versions of Oblivion, including details on what will be in each. Enjoy!

Trailer for the "Making of Oblivion" DVD in the Oblivion Collector's Edition box
Elder Scrolls Team Diary: Pete Hines about the Collector's Edition of TES: Oblivion