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Oblivion Takes Top Honor At Spike VGAs
Last night was the taping for the 2006 Spike TV Videogame awards, and Bethesda Softworks' Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion took best game. Gamespot reports on the rest of the pack, which saw the Critic's Choice going to Twilight Princess, and Epic's Gears of War pulling down several top honors. For a blow-by-blow, Joystiq's event liveblogging post might interest you. It sounds ... pretty awful. From that article: "9:25: 50 Cent intros the 'Best Human Female in a Video Game' in a sort of slurred 'here's my drink' English. We'll have what he's having. It's unsure if he even knows what he's talking about."
The AC wasn't referring to FPS Optimizer, in fact, but to Timeslip's Morrowind Graphics Enhancer. As of version 3, MGE can indeed render landscape to the horizon in the same way that Oblivion does. Yes, you can see all of Vvardenfell from the top of Red Mountain. It's not by any means perfect -- it doesn't render objects and buildings nearly far enough away (they pop into existence about 30 metres away) -- but it's still a very impressive achievement, and regularly updated.