Virtuos Games' former employees can't seem to stop leaking information about its projects. The Singapore-based studio's involvement with the remake of Metal Gear Solid 3 was leaked by a former employee's LinkedIn page. It took years before Konami confirmed this with the game's announcement earlier this year. Now, a former employee has deliberately dropped intel about what the studio is working on, which apparently includes a potential remake or remaster of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion.
While The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is the best-selling game in the franchise (and one of the best-selling single-player titles of all time), The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion holds a special place in the hearts of long-time fans. Unfortunately, it hasn't aged too well. Unless heavily modified, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion doesn't hold up compared to Skyrim.
Thankfully, Virtuos Games is working on a way to fix this.
According to a since-deleted post by a since-deleted user, Virtuos Games is working on five different projects, arguably the biggest of which is project "Altar", which they're describing as a "remaster/remake of Oblivion." According to the source, it's still unclear if it's going to be a full remake but the development team uses a pairing system "using both an Unreal Engine 5 project, and the old Oblivion one." The user, who claims to work for Virtuos Games Paris, says that the European studio is in charge of the project but Black Shamrock is helping the studio "for the art.