This isn’t a Game of the Year list. It’s a look back at the games that lingered in my brain long after I stopped playing them — whether they were brilliant, deeply flawed, or simply hit me at the wrong (or very right) moment in 2025.

Skyblivion, the massive mod remake of Oblivion in Skyrim's engine, won't be making its previously announced 2025 release goal, the team behind it have confirmed. Instead, the mod'll be coming out at some point in 2026, giving the team behind it extra time to overcome the final few hurdles and get it polished up.

This news comes a few months after ex-Skyblivion level and world designer Dee Keyes called the 2025 release goal the mod's team set in 2023 "pointless and unachievable". Keyes also accused Skyblivion project lead Kyle 'Rebelzize' Rebel and implementation lead Heavy Burns of rushing the project out the door and mismanaging communication within the team, subsequently sharing more of his perspective on the project in a video interview with RPS sister site Eurogamer. In a response to Keyes' original claims, Heavy Burns asserted that "many of the statements in his post are either misrepresented or just untrue".

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Right, so. There's Oblivion Remastered, the official Oblivion remaster which released earlier this year. There's Skyblivion, the fan-made Oblivion remake mod which still currently looks due out relatively soonish, despite its release window having been a source of drama a few months ago. There's also Beyond Skyrim: Cyrodiil, another massive Skyrim modding project, but this time seeking to re-create the province in which Oblivion's set as it might be at the time The Elder Scrolls five takes place. Simple. The last one of those has just released a fresh teaser.

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The development team needs a little more time to polish things up.

It was January 2023 when the Skyblivion team originally announced its targeted 2025 launch window. Throughout the past couple of years, the modders have stuck to their schedule, maintaining that they would be able to bring the ambitious total conversion project to fruition by the end of 2025. Today, though, Project Lead Rebelzize shared a video update to confirm that won't happen, as there are simply too many things left to do. The complete fan-made recreation of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion in the engine of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim will, therefore, be released at some point in 2026. […]

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Remember when Oblivion Remastered shadowdropped, and we all got really worried about it overshadowing the long-awaited Sklyblivion? Well, turns out there was nothing to worry about after all, and not just because the Skyblivion devs made it absolutely clear that they were cool with the official remaster existing alongside their own creation.

At the tail end of 2024 the original PlayStation turned 30 years old. While the Xbox 360 is only hitting 20 and it's not an industry shaker to the degree the PS1 was, there's no doubt it earned its place as one of the most important consoles of all time. Xbox managed to challenge Sony in the traditional home console space the PlayStation had dominated with PS1 and PS2, and the console's brilliant line-up of games played a major role in that.

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