Five is the Loneliest Number Strickes Back

And again as I’ve talked before the latest issue of the Official PlayStation Magazine lists their top 10 most anticipated games of 2008, putting Fallout 3 in number five on the list.

What we now know thanks to the Bethesda blog is that in the same issue there’s an interview with Emil Pagliarullo and a couple of new screens taken from the Fallout 3 demo.

If you can find the mag do get it and then tell us your impressions of the interview and pics.

Fallout Holiday Pictures Submissions

I’ve already talked about the contest Bethesda is having, where you can send a picture of your best Fallout-related holiday “thing” to bethblog@bethsoft.com and you can win a T-Shirt, if you’re lucky.

Now Matt “Gstaff” Grandstaff gives some new info:

We didn’t want to put a limit on submissions. Given that it’s holiday themed, we’ll probably wrap up picking submissions at the end of the year.

There’s still time, good luck.

Zeleny Props

Well I got this from Killzig, so here it is:

Since we always make a fuss when they’re NOT playing Fallout, we should give Fizzbang some props for playing Fallout this weekend:

Fred Zeleny, Game Writer and Right Gamer: Fallout 1 (the classic role-playing game), Team Fortress 2 (the I’m-gonna-burn-you-to-death game), Race for the Galaxy (the galactic conquest and economics card game), and Passage (the beautiful and melancholy art-game).

Nate Ellis too:

Nate Ellis, Design Intern: Mass Effect, Fallout, WoW and maybe some Diplomacy with good friends (hopefully we’re still good friends after).

There is some discomfort in the community about the devs reluctance in talking about the classic Fallout games, or what is perceived as a lack of experience with the Fallout world. From this side of the fence that feeling looks legit, but let’s not forget that many of them did play the games and had much fun doing it.

Fallout 3 Meet Canada

Another day another most anticipated games list. This time is at PCWorld.ca and Fallout 3 is number three on the list:

Fallout 3 makes the list purely because it looks like Bethesda has this one cooking as a pet project. All I can say is that from reading their development blogs and seeing screenshots of the ongoing project, this looks like a game that has been made from the ground up for the real fans of the Fallout series. While it is a departure from the three-quarter perspective, turn-based adventure that was the first two games, released 10 years ago, it looks like this game will stay completely faithful to the post-apocalyptic environment and quirky dialog that made the series so great. The contest they held for fans to be able to create a perk for the game just shows how much they care about the community created with the first two games.

A rather controversial take on the subject, you can see the other games featured on the list here.