Rumor: “Miracle” Port Masters Virtuos Working On Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remake

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We have an interesting new rumor about a classic game getting remade, under interesting circumstances.

As reported by XFire, a Reddit post let out that Virtuos is working on a port of The Elder Scrolls IV” Oblivion. Now, before we get to the rumor itself, we should talk about Virtuos itself.

Virtuos may not be as famous or popular with gamers as small studios like WayForward or InnerSloth, but it’s discreetly a giant in the industry with its own niche. While the company sometimes makes its own games, it’s made its reputation with the many ports of games it has made across different platforms.

These include bringing Horizon: Zero Dawn to Windows, Arkham City and Arkham Asylum to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, and most instructively, the many games it has brought to Nintendo Switch.

Virtuos’ Switch library includes Destroy All Humans, BioShock, Dark Souls, XCOM 2, Dyling Light, and as a career highlight, NieR Automata: End of Yorha Edition. GamesRadar in particular hails this as a miracle port, and possibly making the Switch the best platform to play the game.

Virtuos currently has 21 offices around the word, and 3,500 employees. It is headquartered in Singapore, but also has five subsidiaries, including Black Shamrock.

With all that in mind, let’s examine the details of this latest rumor, that come from a now-deleted reddit:

“First, there is the ‘Altar’ project, which is the remaster/remake of Oblivion (the discusssion for it being a full remake are still ongoing.) It is done currently using a pairing system, so it means that the remaster is running using both an Unreal Engine 5 project, and the old Oblivion one.

For instance, new graphics are rendered in the UE5 project, but most of the gameplay/physics/etc is still done in