What we've been playing – engine musings, staying the course, and a tinge of sadness

26th April

Hello and welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games we’ve been playing. This week, Tom P has been loving his time in Cyrodiil, Victoria has been playing with dragons, and Tom O has been mostly just wandering about.

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Bethesda has been a little vague over exactly how its creaky old engine has been plugged into (or wallpapered over by) the new Unreal Engine 5-powered remake of Oblivion, but from the moment of that first cinematic pan around Emperor Patrick Stewart’s castle I was thinking: thank goodness it has.