Diablo III Vs. Fallout 3

By now everyone heard about the announcement of Diablo III, with good old Leon Boyarsky of Fallout fame as Lead World Designer. Comparisons between Diablo III and Fallout 3 were bound to happen, with NMA pointing to Solivagant’s blog at Destructoid with a passionate and controversial piece called How to make a proper Sequel:
And now [...]

ZRG Online

Well this is off topic but since I love these guys I had to mention this. Zero Radius Games, the love child of Chris “anarchy” Taylor, Tom Decker and Scott Everts, is now fully back online:
Zero Radius Games is a small hobbyist game design group and web-based publisher. We’re not just rabid game players, we’re [...]

Keeping Faith In Fallout 3

David Wilgoose from the Official XBox Magazine has a piece on his blog on why we should embrace change when talking about Fallout 3:

Recently I had the opportunity to visit Bethesda and play Fallout 3. I’ll shortly be posting extracts from an interview I did with lead designer Emil Pagliarulo, and you can read my [...]

A Sleeper Hit

Gamer.Blorge puts Fallout 3 on their Four Sleeper Hits for 2008 list:
Brought to you by the developers of the acclaimed Oblivion, which went on to sell over 4 million units, a smashing success. Fallout 3 is extremely promising, taking place in the post-apocalyptic era with war torn buildings and mutated freaks running around, it’s your [...]

Inside The Vault: James Cory Edwards

New Inside the Vault at the Bethblog, this time with Cory Edwards:
Inside the Vault welcomes Cory Edwards, world artist, to answer a few questions about his work and his life. He has done some amazing work for Fallout 3. Cory is also our resident 3D Max guru.
What’s your job at Bethesda?
I’m a world artist working [...]

GameSpot Video: GameSpot AU presents Crosshairs 26 June 2008

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Fallout 3 section begins at minute 11. They call the game a first person shooter and “Oblivion with Guns”, and there’s an interview with Pete Hines.
Thanks Newman on the Bethsoft Fallout 3 forum.

Gamespot and Fallout 3 at E3

Gamespot brings us a list with their more anticipated games for E3:
Fallout 3
Release Date: Oct 7, 2008
Genre: Role-Playing
Platform: PC,PS3, X360
This highly anticipated sequel to the cult-classic RPG will take you on a postapocalyptic adventure [...]

Gameplayer Bizarre Week

Gameplayer has the Fallout Week day Three feature online, and yet again it’s a copy/paste from the old 360 magazine that was released in March.
It provides some Fallout background, but for that you’ll be better served reading TheVault or heading to the fansites like NMA.

NZ GamePlanet Fallout 3 Feature

From New Zealand comes the Gameplanet Fallout 3 preview, with nothing really new, but a with an effort into detailing more thoroughly what they saw, so it’s worth a look:
Initially, this preview event had been organised to bring a large number of Australian and New Zealand media representatives in on the game, and to show [...]

Gameplayer Has Images

Gameplayer posted a few images taken from Fallout 3.
Those that come to this blog regularly have already seen them, but if you are new to the game do take a look.

GameArena Fallout 3 Preview

Just saw this at NMA, there’s a new Fallout 3 preview at GameArena:
Set in Washington – the other side of the country to Fallout and Fallout 2 – there are many familiar landmarks, even to people who haven’t been in the country. The build Pete brought with him showed off a destroyed version of the [...]

Knowledge communities: Information, interpretation, and the currency of the era

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There’s a new piece by Ryan M. Milner at Online Fandom, dwelling into the relation between Fallout fans and developers:
I think there’s something Bethesda, and producers of media texts in general, can learn from these observations. The Fallout fanbase (at least the majority of the vocal fanbase) has been wary of Bethesda’s handling [...]

Second Fan Interview Is Coming

I’m getting quite a few messages on Meebo about the second Fan Interview, since there was no info on what was happening with it. Now Bethsoft Community Manager Matt “Gstaff” Grandstaff finally has some info on the interview that he shared with us on the Bethesda Games Fallout 3 Forum:
Sorry guys. There’s been a lot [...]

More Gameplayer Weirdness

Ok so back in April Gameplayer.au published an article called “Can Bethesda do Fallout 3?”, and later in June they changed the title and put it back as if it was new.
Then yesterday they placed an article online, supposedly new, that had already appeared on 360 magazine in March.
Now they have another one, that was [...]

They Are Gone Now

Oh well those nice shirts inspired by Fallout 3 were taken down from CafePress, karnieopt explains why:
They were bunched in with the other shirts and merchandise which are legitimately for sale, and all marked up together, and I never went back to adjust it. That was an oversight on my part. As for the copyright, [...]

Fallout 3 Stuff at CafePress

Ok this material showed up on CafePress for sale, it’s Fallout 3 “inspired” as you can see. We’ll see what Bethsoft will do about that.
Thanks karnieopt.

Old New Stuff

NMA is reporting that Australian Gameplayer started a week of Fallout 3 articles and interviews. So I was reading the beginning of their first feature, something like this:
Welcome to our Fallout week: every day we will be releasing some new editorial on Bethesda’s amazing new post-apocalyptic action RPG, including new screens, new interviews and new [...]