"It's good that we were still allowed to exist at all" After the Oblivion remaster leak, Skyblivion project lead confirms the team will keep working and "stay positive"

"Luckily this happening was each astir passionateness from the commencement and it inactive is."

In lawsuit you were surviving nether a stone yesterday, a clump of screenshots and details astir the long-rumoured Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion remaster leaked via Virtuos Games' website. Naturally, everyone was similar 'whoa, it is really real', including the squad of modders who've been moving connected their ain Oblivion remaster for astir a decennary - Skyblivion.

While the radical down the monolithic mod person faced plentifulness of questions astir an authoritative Oblivion remake and what it could mean for their task since the rumours began swirling, VG247 reached retired to task pb Kyle 'Rebelzize' Rebel to get a consciousness of however the team's feeling present that it looks beauteous nailed connected that we'll beryllium getting this authoritative remaster soon.

Rebel told america that the team's program present that the authoritative remaster has been beauteous overmuch confirmed to beryllium existent is simple: "focus connected the merchandise of our ain mentation and enactment positive".

"Luckily this happening was each astir passionateness from the commencement and it inactive is," helium said, "I've gotten much retired of this than I ever imagined, friends, acquisition and it made maine recognize I wanted to enactment successful the gaming manufacture which I ended up doing.

"At the extremity of the time it lone exists due to the fact that Bethesda allowed it, truthful I conjecture if the authoritative remake is existent it's bully that we were inactive allowed to beryllium astatine all."

So, afloat steam up for Skyblivion's presently planned 2025 merchandise window, likewise to what Rebel told america erstwhile we spoke to him backmost successful February, erstwhile the authoritative remaster was inactive conscionable a happening that mightiness exist. "I deliberation whether the rumours are existent oregon not doesn't impact america much," the modder said successful that interview, "If they are existent I anticipation it volition springiness radical adjacent much of a crushed to effort retired our iteration of it. If it's not existent past this volition beryllium the champion mode to re-experience the crippled [with] a caller overgarment of paint.

"At the extremity of the day, we are not trying to merchantability a crippled and marque a profit. I dedicated 10+ years to bring this crippled to the fans and I consciousness this is simply a emblematic lawsuit of 'ït's astir the journey, not the destination'. The information Skyblivion is astir successful a releasable authorities is simply a miracle, arsenic we each went into this blindly and successful immoderate cases failed our mode to the decorativeness line."

I don't cognize astir you, but arsenic a large Elder Scrolls nerd, I'm precise overmuch keen to spot what some the authoritative Oblivion remaster and Skyblivion person to offer. It should beryllium beauteous damn absorbing to comparison 2 antithetic takes connected revamping a crippled we each love. And if you don't similar either, the archetypal volition inactive beryllium there, waiting to invited you backmost with a chorus of 'By Azura, by Azura, by Azuuuuuuuraaaaa!'