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2K and Bethesda Softworks Announce The Elder Scrolls IV(R): Shivering Isles(TM) -- Official Expansion for Oblivion.


Spring Release Planned for Official Expansion for 2006 Game of the Year as The Elder Scrolls IV[R]: Oblivion[TM] Sales Top 2.7 Million Units**

NEW YORK New York, state, United States
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 & ROCKVILLE, Md. -- 2K, a publishing label of Take-Two Interactive “Take Two” redirects here. For other uses, see Take Two (disambiguation).

Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO) is an American publisher, developer, and distributor of video and computer games and video game peripherals.
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: TTWO TTWO Take Two Interative Software, Inc. (stock symbol) ), and Bethesda Softworks[R], a ZeniMax Media company, today announced the upcoming release of The Elder Scrolls IV[R]: Shivering Isles[TM], the official expansion for the award-winning The Elder Scrolls IV[R]: Oblivion[TM]. Shivering Isles will be released for PC this spring.

Shivering Isles features more than 30 hours of new gameplay and allows players to explore an entirely new plane of Oblivion - the realm of Sheogorath, the Daedric Prince of Madness. Shivering Isles adds to the existing world of Oblivion so players can continue playing with their existing saved game A saved game is a piece of digitally stored information about the progress of a player in a computer or video game. This saved game can be reloaded later, so the player can continue where he or she had stopped.  and character, or create an all new character to explore the new content.

"Oblivion's engaging and unique role-playing experience made it both a critical and consumer success," said Christoph Hartmann, President of 2K. "We are excited to build upon its solid foundation of gameplay and appeal to give fans the expansion they've been craving."

"We're thrilled with the response that Oblivion has received to date and feel that Shivering Isles will offer a whole new and different experience to anyone who played and enjoyed Oblivion," said Todd Howard Todd Howard is the current executive producer for Bethesda Softworks, creators of The Elder Scrolls universe and videogame series. Todd has stated that Bethesda's philosophy for the Elder Scrolls games is to allow people to "Live another life, in another world. , executive producer for The Elder Scrolls.

Within the Realm of Sheogorath, players can explore the two extreme sides of the god's madness - the sublimely creative and the completely psychotic. Something is happening to the Shivering Isles and Sheogorath himself looks to the player to be his champion and defend his realm and its inhabitants
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 from destruction. Players will have to ask themselves if they have the strength to survive his trials, tame a realm fraught with paranoia and despair, and wear the mantle of a god.

The Shivering Isles features a bizarre landscape split between the two sides - Mania and Dementia - filled with vast, twisting dungeons Dungeons may refer to:
  • the plural form of Dungeon, part of a medieval castle that is either the keep or an underground prison
  • shorthand for Dungeons & Dragons, a fantasy role-playing game
 mirroring the roots of the trees they are buried within. Players will encounter more than a dozen new creatures including hideous insects, Flesh Atronachs, skeletal Shambles, and amphibious Grummites. Throughout the adventure, players will discover all new items, ingredients, spells, and more, and have the talented craftsmen of Crucible and Bliss forge new armor and weapons.

"The enthusiastic response we've received to our downloadable content has been overwhelming, and we're excited to bring Oblivion fans a full expansion," said Vlatko Andonov, president of Bethesda Softworks. "The world we've created for Shivering Isles is unlike anything you've seen or played in Oblivion and we can't wait for folks to play it."

Released in March 2006 for the Xbox 360[TM] videogame and entertainment system from Microsoft and PC, Oblivion sold more than 2.7 million units** in 2006. Among the countless awards and accolades it has garnered to date are Game of the Year and RPG (Report Program Generator) One of the first program generators designed for business reports, introduced in 1964 by IBM. In 1970, RPG II added enhancements that made it a mainstay programming language for business applications on IBM's System/3x midrange computers.  of the Year honors from numerous outlets, including Spike TV's 2006 Video Game Awards, G4's G-phoria, the Golden Joystick Awards The Golden Joystick Awards are a set of prestigious annual awards given to the best computer and video games of the year, currently in their 25th year of running. External links
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, GameSpot.com, ShackNews.com, Voodoo Extreme, FiringSquad.com, and many more. Oblivion received the #1 ranking on PC Gamer's (UK) list of the top 100 games of all time and is the highest rated Xbox 360 game of all time according to according to
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The Windows version of Shivering Isles will be available at retail and is co-published by 2K and Bethesda Softworks, while the Xbox 360 version is currently planned for release only through Xbox Live See Xbox. [R] online entertainment network by Bethesda Softworks. For more information on Oblivion, Shivering Isles, or The Elder Scrolls, visit the official web site: www.elderscrolls.com.

** Represents sales in territories where 2K has distribution rights to the title.

About Take-Two Interactive Software

Headquartered in New York City New York City: see New York, city.
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City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S.
, Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. is a global developer, marketer, distributor and publisher of interactive entertainment software games for the PC, PlayStation[R] game console, PlayStation[R]2 and PLAYSTATION[R]3 computer entertainment systems, PSP (PlayStation Portable) See PlayStation. [R] (PlayStation[R]Portable) system, Xbox[R] and Xbox 360[TM] video game and entertainment systems from Microsoft, Nintendo GameCube[TM], Nintendo DS[TM] and Game Boy[R] Advance. The Company publishes and develops products through its wholly owned labels Rockstar Games, 2K and 2K Sports, and Global Star Software; and distributes software, hardware and accessories in North America through its Jack of All Games subsidiary. Take-Two's common stock is publicly traded on NASDAQ under the symbol TTWO. For more corporate and product information please visit our website at www.take2games.com.

About Bethesda Softworks[R]

Headquartered in Rockville, MD, Bethesda Softworks LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol.

LLC - Logical Link Control
, a subsidiary of ZeniMax Media Inc., is a premier developer and publisher of interactive entertainment software and has produced numerous award-winning titles, most recently with The Elder Scrolls[R] IV: Oblivion[TM] and the 2002 PC and Xbox[R] Game of the Year and RPG of the Year, The Elder Scrolls III: Morrrowind[R]. Among Bethesda's more popular franchises are The Elder Scrolls[R] series and Fallout[R], as well as its licensed properties such as Star Trek[R]. Its product line spans the sports, racing, RPG, strategy, and action genres. For more information on Bethesda Softworks' products, visit www.bethsoft.com.

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