Gamebryo Shows Off Shadowing Technology

Gamebryo is the engine behind Fallout 3, and on this video, spotted at Kotaku, you can see a demo of their new, hmmm, shadowing technology.

New Inside the Vault: Mike Dulany

With Programmer Mike Dulany:
What’s your job at Bethesda?
I’m a programmer. I work on a number of aspects of the game from artist tools to in game systems.
What other games have you worked on?
I’ve done QA on both IHRA Sportsman and Oblivion. Late in the Oblivion development cycle I moved from QA to [...]

The PA Is A Lie

So you’ve read about the controversy on the PA on the Official XBox Magazine cover, and saw that Brother None already said that didn’t look the PA he saw on the Fallout 3 demo. Now Todd Howard, through a post of Community Manager Matt “Gstaff” Grandstaff finally confirmed that it isn’t in fact the [...]

That PA Is Weird

After the Fallout 3 OXM cover was shown many complaints surfaced against the Powered Armor that we can see depicted there. On the long discussion about it on the Bethesda Games Fallout 3 forum a few more creative ideas were put forward, but now Brother None at No Mutants Allowed, someone that actually saw [...]

Vague Kung Fu

Questions from ttsec on the Bethesda Games Fallout 3 forum, Jay “Radhamster” Woodward replies, well sort of:
ttsec: My point is, when they model a supermutant, it’s the same model for Xbox, PC, PS3. When they make a sound, it’s the same sound for Xbox, PC, PS3. When they make a C++ (or whatever language) [...]

Fallout 3: New Areas, New enemies on OXM

From the Bethblog:
The April issue of OXM is now making its way to subscribers in the US as we speak. The cover story features a number of new areas and also features a host of new screens from different parts of the game, including new areas, new creatures/NPCs, weapons, etc. We don’t want to [...]

FO3: PNG 1 Year Anniversary

One year ago I uploaded this image (the maker of that promo image once gave me the high res version) as a header and pressed the “publish” button, giving officially birth to this blog.
The temporary name got to be final, and it took me a while to get the hand of WordPress, but here [...]

Checklist of Trust

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Since a while the complaints about the excessive laudatory tone and lack of knowledge about the Fallout world of gaming reporters have been piling up on the Bethesda Games Fallout 3 forum. Now for those Fallout fans Bethsoft Community manager Matt “Gstaff” Grandstaff has some surprising (and quite sound) advice:
I guess [...]

Fallout 3: Better To Be Honest

Matt “Gstaff” Grandstaff (photo Bethblog) 
Busy day at the Bethesda Games Fallout 3 forum, let’s start with this topic, with aftrburn stating this:
[...]it’s not going to be the same game you played 10 years ago. If people are only hoping for that and nothing else, they’ll probably be disappointed.”
These statements are divisive and potentially alienating. [...]

Surfs Up, Shooting Too

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Previously I’ve talked about Surfer Girl naming Fallout 3 as the third best shooter for 2008. I went back to the source and asked her/him this:
Monday morning at 10 the Bethsoft people are going to start their computers and won’t be very pleased about your idea that Fallout 3 is going to [...]

Sunday Misc.

Before Fallout was Fallout it was something a bit different, Project GURPS. NMA now has a twelve years old article from the now defunct NG magazine showing how that project was being devised and developed, with a lot of great info for Fallout fans and gamers interested in gaming history. A must read! Great [...]

Electronic Arts Wants Take Two

Electronic Arts wants to acquire The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion North American publisher Take Two for two billion dollars, according to Next Generation. It wasn’t Ubisoft after all s001.
So is Bethsoft clear from this wave of consolidation or is something coming up later this year? Stay tuned.

Surfer Girl: Fallout 3 a Great Shooter

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Surfer Girl Reviews Star Wars is the number one blog for gaming world gossips. In one of the last posts before the author/authors went to the GDC we could read this:
Also, Far Cry 2 is the first-person shooter of the year (sorry, Resistance 2)…sorry about that person doubting you. The console versions [...]

If Fallout 3 Turns Out To Be Any Good.

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Will Fallout 3 have any role on the console wars in the States? Matt Peckham seems to think so:
Betting against Grand Theft Auto IV — especially with the free enhanced marketing it’ll get by way of all the imminent, eminently bankable brainless media “controversy” stories — isn’t really an option. [...]

Gears of War 2: Fall 2008

Gears of War 2 is officially coming to the Xbox 360 in November, which means Fallout 3, to be released in Fall 2008, will definitively be having some strong competition. Will this mean a delay for the release of the game? What do you think?

Misc. Fallout 3 Stuff For The Day

This is the movie with GameTrailers 10 most Anticipated Games of 2008. Fallout 3 is number three on the list, spotted at the BethBlog.
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In other news if you are Portuguese you can find Fallout 3 featured on BGamers list of Games for 2008, on page 65.
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Finally a remark from Matt “Gstaff” [...]

Inside the Vault: Silence of the Lamb

New Inside the Vault at the BethBlog, featuring Associate Producer Tim Lamb:
Today’s Inside the Vault is about one of our associate producers, Tim Lamb. His main area of focus is programming. Tim is the pulse of programming and he works hard to keep us on track. He is also known for his prowess at [...]