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.

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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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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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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.

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.

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 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.

“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.

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

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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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.

When Bethesda purchased the Fallout IP from Interplay they left behind the MMO rights as part of an agreement that hinged upon Interplay beginning ‘full scale’ work on the game by April fourth as well as having secured funding for the development of the title. Bethesda is considering legal action as they claim that Interplay has fulfilled neither of these conditions.

Interplay is denying all of these claims and their work on a game called ‘Project V13′ hints that there might be more going on than Bethesda is aware of. Unfortunately for Interplay if Bethesda goes ahead with legal action and wins, they’ll have lost all rights to the license and that could lead to problems with the financing as MMOs based on a brand new IP have a low rate of success due to the colossal grip WoW has on the market.

The Pitt DLC pack for Fallout 3 has hit Xbox Live not once, not twice, but three times with news of this recent update.

Bethesda has apparently reworked the DLC and rereleased it to ease the woes of gamers who have been experiencing freezing and other problems with the pack.

They go on to say that if you are continuing to encounter problems with the pack you are encouraged to delete the outdated content and replace it with the updated pack.

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"I can say we’re working on lots of DLC," he said. "Lots of stuff brewing up here. God only knows where that may go. What famous landmarks can we destroy next?"

There are currently two pieces of DLC for the game on PC and Xbox 360. Each is priced at $10 and offers new quests, items and weapons. A third DLC is scheduled for release next month.

Thus far there’s no specific details regarding what caused the problem or the time frame in which we can expect to have a new file for download, but I’m sure Bethesda will have the information posted on their site as soon as possible.

Dubbed “The Pitt”, the DLC will allow players to explore post-apocalyptic Pittsburgh, face moral quandaries regarding slaves and raiders, and get to check out a new weapon.

It will be priced at 800 Microsoft points ($10) and will be released for PC and Xbox 360 versions of the game. Following “The Pitt”, Bethesda will release “Broken Steel” in April – it will raise the game’s level cap from 20 to 30, as well as continue the story past the original ending.