XBox 360 Rally

Are you one of the many (many being, like, twelve) Oblivion junkies out there that aren’t connected to Xbox LIVE? Well, I have good news for you kind folk: Shivering Isles is going to be heading to retail stores everywhere. In disc form, even!

Bethesda Softworks announced today via press release that their award-winning expansion to the almost universal pick for 2006 Game of the Year, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, will be heading to retail stores across America sometime this October and will also feature the Knights of the Nine Downloadable Content. A price has not yet been announced.

Read the full Press Release after the break.

Bethesda Softworks Announces The Elder Scrolls® IV: Shivering IslesTM Xbox 360 Retail Disc

Official Expansion to Award-Winning Role Playing Game, Available at Retail, Combined With Knights of the Nine

September 06, 2007 (Rockville, MD) – Bethesda Softworks®, a ZeniMax Media company, announced today that it will release The Elder Scrolls® IV: Shivering Isles™ for Xbox 360™ video game and entertainment system from Microsoft at retail. Gamers will now be able to play the award-winning expansion to the 2006 Game of the Year, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion®, without accessing Xbox Live® online entertainment network. The retail disc will also include the downloadable content, The Elder Scrolls® IV: Knights of the Nine™.

Released in March 2006 for Windows and Xbox 360™ video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and in March 2007 for PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system, Oblivion has already earned countless awards from publications around the world and won numerous Game of the Year and RPG of the Year awards. It has also recently achieved the status of both Xbox 360 Platinum Hit (North America) and Xbox 360 Classic (Europe). The Xbox 360 Platinum Hits and Classics programs allow existing gamers and new gamers alike to have access to great games at an amazing price.

Oblivion features a powerful combination of free-form gameplay, unprecedented graphics, cutting edge AI, character voices by acting legends Patrick Stewart, Sean Bean, Terrance Stamp, and Lynda Carter, and an award-winning soundtrack. Gamers can choose to unravel Oblivion’s epic narrative at their own pace or explore the vast world in search of their own unique challenges.

With more than 30 hours of new gameplay, Shivering Isles allows you to explore an entirely new plane of Oblivion – the realm of Sheogorath, the Daedric Prince of Madness. Shivering Isles features a bizarre landscape split between the two sides – Mania and Dementia –filled with vast, twisting dungeons mirroring the roots of the trees they are buried within. Sheogorath himself looks to you to be his champion and defend his realm and its inhabitants from destruction as you discover all new items, ingredients, spells, and much more.

Knights of the Nine features an all-new faction and quests for noble characters and answers many of the questions surrounding the Ayleid ruins found throughout Oblivion. Players can join a new faction and found their own order of holy knights – leading them into battle against a sorcerer-king and his demonic minions while exploring massive dungeons and searching for legendary relics – the holy armor and weapons of the Divine Crusader.

Shivering Isles for Xbox 360 will be available in retail stores in October. For more information on Oblivion, Shivering Isles, or The Elder Scrolls, visit www.elderscrolls.com.

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