9 million people have played Oblivion Remastered, and you've gotta think that number has Bethesda looking at its other old games and drooling

Dark Elf smiling at camera who looks like he's about to get hit by an axe.

In what might indicate a deep inner yearning on our part to return to our childhoods, Bethesda and Virtuos' soigné redo of The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion has hit the nine million player milestone. That is (PCG's Harvey Randall informs me) almost double the population of Norway. Which is also an indictment of Norway. Why do I live in England when there's so much space in the fjords? Make some room over there.

Bethesda announced it had hit the big nine-oh (oh-oh-oh-oh-oh) on social media last Friday, with some rather charming art of the Adoring Fan and his criminal hairstyle, shocked and pleased by the sheer number of people who have popped into Cyrodiil to collect Nirnroot, kill 12 Rumare slaughterfish, and generally do everything except the main quest.