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Bethesda announced Fallout 3 PS3 DLC date, announces GOTY edition

It was recently announced that the PS3 DLC for Bethesda’s critically acclaimed Fallout 3 will be made available for download on September 24th. This date, however, is just for the game’s first batch of DLC entitled Broken Steel. Operation Anchorage and The Pitt will drop on October 1 while Point Lookout and Mothership Zeta will be dropping on October 8th.

If you’re not willing to download these seperate DLC packs you can just purchase the recently announced Fallout 3 Game of the Year Edition for the PC, PS3 or Xbox 360 that includes the full retail game in addition to all of the above mentioned DLC packs.

via joystiq

GameStop breaks Fallout 3’s Point Lookout DLC street date

Fans of Bethesda’s Fallout 3 will be happy to hear that GameStop has begun selling the game’s newest DLC pack, Point Lookout, pior to its scheduled June 23rd release date.

Now, we’re not sure how long they will be selling Point Lookout for but Kotaku has confirmed that they are in fact shipping the content. Better yet, they have also confirmed that the codes shipped by GameStop are working and will give players the chance to play Point Lookout early.

So Fallout 3-ers, what are you waiting for?

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Bethesda’s Morrowind and Oblivion coming to Steam?

If the above image is anything to go by the guys over at Steam seem to have uploaded said image clearly displaying Bethesda’s Morrowind and Oblivion before they were announced to hit the service.

The ad was displayed on the homepage for a brief period of time before it was taken down. However, you can still view the ad to verify its legitimacy here, which is clearly located on the Steam’s servers.

I think its safe to say that both of these games will in fact be hitting the service at some point in the very near future. I mean, Bethesda’s Fallout 3 is available from Steam, why not some of their back catalog too?

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Fallout 3 might come to iPhone

Fallout 3 developer/publisher Bethesda is riding on a massive wave of success with Fallout 3, both commercial and critical success. Bethesda’s Todd Howard said that they’ve considered porting Fallout 3 to the iPhone (and iPod touch), but that the ideas so far haven’t met their standards. However, he certainly sees the iPhone as a viable platform for the game.

Bethesda dates new Fallout 3 DLC, releases trailer

After learning that Bethesda’s Pete Hines was so surprised at the sucess of the already released Fallout 3 DLC, it’s no secret that they would do what any company would and release another pack.

This time it’s Point Lookout which we heard briefly about last month when Bethesda was pondering releasing Fallout 3 DLC across multiple platforms. Point Lookout looks to be centered mostly in what some would call the boondocks as hillbillies and broken down cabins are plentiful.

As stated at the end of the trailer, Fallout 3’s Point Lookout will be released on June 23rd.

ZeniMax Media trademarks “Brink”

The first thing I thought when I heard ZeniMax Media (parent company to Bethesda) applied for a trademark for Brink was the 1998 Disney Channel movie. A game based on the movie? Count me in.

Unfortunately, Joystiq thinks otherwise pondering that the trademark might be for a Wii title, a title from Splash Damage, or perhaps an MMO rumored to be in the works.

Whatever the case, it’s probably not a game based on the movie so I’m thoroughly disappointed.

Fallout 3 DLC Going Multiplatform, More On The Way

Sure, there have been some major issues with two out of the three downloadable content packs Bethesda has released for Fallout 3, but in spite of that they’ve been selling well. Soon they’ll be selling even better since Microsoft’s exclusivity is coming to an end and more content packs are on the way. All three of the existing DLC packs are going to be available for the PS3 this year. Operation Anchorage releases in June with The Pitt and Broken Steel following after with a four to six week interval between each.

The two new content packs will be released for PS3 eventually, but they’re going to be released for the Xbox 360 first. Point Lookout will bring the player to a new swampy area with new quests based around the real Point Lookout State Park of Maryland. Although the Fallout universe is set in an America where events eventually diverged from our reality, some of the events will draw on the collective past, including the Civil War.

Mothership Zeta continues with the running reference in the Fallout universe to the existence of aliens. In previous games you could get your hands on a powerful albeit short ranged alien blaster if you stumbled upon their crashed ship. In Fallout 3 the same thing happens, but in the DLC pack you’ll find yourself abducted by the alien ship responding to the distress call you can pick up on your Pip Boy.

As with the previous packs there’ll be new quests, characters, items to collect and even some new perks, but at this early stage no details are being discussed about what they might be, though they did say that we can expect a ton of new art for Mothership Zeta. Lookout Point is set for a June release and Mothership Zeta for July.

Bethesda planning to release “really big Wii game”

Developer/publisher Bethesda plans to reveal news of a “really big Wii game” any time soon, although it is uncertain whether Bethesda will develop or just publish the game.

Bethesda Europe managing director Sean Brennan said in an interview with GamesIndustry.biz;

“We’ve got a couple of other things in the pipeline, and it’s a format we’re really looking at with the right approach. We’re not going to establish a new range and call if ‘My Girly Game Range’ or whatever these other companies are doing, it’s so me-too and boring.”

Since Bethesda has been getting into the publishing game, and the fact they’re quite busy with Fallout 3, it is unlikely that the Wii game would be developer internally.

Bethesda says more DLC a possibility

Fallout 3 developer/publisher Bethesda says that the recent Broken Steel DLC might not be the last for the post-apocalyptic RPG. Bethesda’s Pete Hines said in an interview with OXM,

“Whether [Broken Steel is] the absolute last one remains to be seen. Because it’s been hugely successful. Operation Anchorage vastly exceeded our expectation. It was like ‘holy shit, we did how many?’ and the Pitt was really successful, after a bit of a false start.”

Of course, if Fallout 3 DLC is so successful — everything indicates that it is — there’s no reason as to why Bethesda wouldn’t release more of it. After all, it’s a lot easier to create some DLC content instead of a whole new game.

Fallout 3 patch 1.5 released

Bethesda has released the 1.5 patch for Fallout 3. The new update is available for the Xbox 360 and PC and includes:

New Features:
New achievements for Broken Steel

Bug Fixes:
Fixed issue with VATS calculations not appearing properly for perks (PC)
Fixed crash related to altered references between master files
LOD objects render properly when loaded from DLC worldspaces
Fixed issue with companion NPCs not loading into cells immediately after player

Bethesda and Del Rey to publish Elder Scroll novels

Considering the success of The Elder Scrolls series, it only make sense that some novels set in the universe be released, right? Bethesda sure thinks so, recently announcing that they have teamed with Del Rey Books to produce a series of novels baring The Elder Scrolls branding.

The first novel in the series entitled The Infernal, written by bestselling author Greg Keyes, will take place after The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion:

Floating high above the land is a strange and mysterious city that is casting a horrifying shadow – wherever it falls, people die and rise again as undead. It is up to an unlikely duo – a seventeen-year-old girl named Annaig and the Emperor’s young son, Prince Attrebus – to rescue the kingdom from doom.

Read (Kotaku)

Fallout 3’s Broken Steel DLC pack caught on film

We’ve been hearing about the forthcoming Broken Steel DLC pack for Fallout 3 a lot lately with release dates, pricing, and screenshots galore. However, we haven’t seen some actual gameplay footage until now.

G4TV recently sat down with Bethesda’s Todd Howard to discuss the expansion’s contents. But who cares about that, right? Onto the footage!

Broken Steel will be released for Fallout 3 on May 5th, mark your calenders.

Fallout 3 ‘Broken Steel’ DLC dated

While originally slated for an April release, Bethesda has recently announced that the Broken Steel DLC pack for Fallout 3 will hit Xbox Live on May 5th for 800 Microsoft Points.

Broken Steel will add a whole slew of new content as well as raising the level cap to 30. The whole plot of the pack is based around the Brotherhood of Steel and their ongoing efforts to eliminate the Enclave forces. And, to go along with the updated plot line, there will be an all new ending for players to experience.

So remember everyone, May 5th Broken Steel for Fallout 3.

Read (ThatVideoGameBlog)

Fallout Moving To Other Media?

The video games that films and television shows have been based on are often poorly chosen and seem to be picked for more summer blockbuster potential than any other reason. Generally they ignore IPs with interesting character and well-fleshed out plot lines. That might be in part because it’s usually the big film studios who seek out these projects with little actual involvement from their creators.

Bethesda however is taking a more active interest in the possible direction other Fallout media could go. They’ve filed patents for both a Fallout film and television show. With the huge volume of material already created for the series there are plenty of avenues to go down. The main storylines and side quests of all three games give dozens of possible storylines; defeating mutants, questing for parts to fix a dying vault, etc.

The only problem of course would be the high cost of doing a Fallout TV show, with the budget for special effects, props, buildings, etc. Unfortunately a film probably wouldn’t do the well crafted Fallout universe justice, but I doubt we’d see more than a season of two of the TV show.

Bethesda Announces New Fallout

Now that Fallout 3 has proved that acquiring the Fallout IP was a good move, they seem to be putting more fuel on the post-apocalyptic fire. They’re considering legal action to get the rights to a Fallout MMO back from Interplay, though Bethesda doesn’t have much experience themselves in creating an MMO. They’ve just announced the existence of Fallout: New Vegas.

As is usual for an initial announcement they’re short on details, but fans of the series who weren’t as happy about Bethesda’s version will be a little more interested when they hear that Obsidian Entertainment (a studio founded by members of Interplay’s Black Isle Studios) are doing the actual developing for the game. When asked about what engine it’d be using, the spokesperson said that you could ‘make educated guesses’ so we’ll probably be seeing another first person perspective game. It’s set for the same consoles, PC, Xbox 360 and PS3 and set to release in 2010.