FROM THE PRESS RELEASE:

Bethesda Softworks, a ZeniMax Media company, today announced it will release The Elder Scrolls IV: Shivering Isles for the Xbox 360 at retail. Gamers will now be able to play the award-winning expansion to the 2006 Game of the Year, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, without accessing the Xbox Live online entertainment network. The retail disc will also include the downloadable content, The Elder Scrolls IV: Knights of the Nine.

Oblivion features a powerful combination of free-form gameplay, unprecedented graphics, cutting edge AI, character voices by acting legends Patrick Stewart, Sean Bean, Terrance Stamp and Lynda Carter, and an award-winning soundtrack. Gamers can choose to unravel Oblivion’s epic narrative at their own pace or explore the vast world in search of their own unique challenges.

With more than 30 hours of new gameplay, Shivering Isles allows you to explore an entirely new plane of Oblivion – the realm of Sheogorath, the Daedric Prince of Madness. Shivering Isles features a bizarre landscape filled with vast, twisting dungeons mirroring the roots of the trees within which they’re buried. Sheogorath himself looks to you to be his champion and defend his realm and its inhabitants from destruction as you discover all new items, ingredients and spells.

Knights of the Nine features an all-new faction and quests for noble characters and answers many of the questions surrounding the Ayleid ruins found throughout Oblivion. Players can join a new faction and found their own order of holy knights – leading them into battle against a sorcerer king and his demonic minions while exploring massive dungeons and searching for the holy armor and weapons of the Divine Crusader.

Shivering Isles for Xbox 360 will be available in retail stores in October. For more information on Oblivion, Shivering Isles or The Elder Scrolls, visit www.elderscrolls.com.