The Winner

From the Bethesda Blog:
It’s no small thing to enter a contest and beat out thousands upon thousands of entries to be named the winner. So having risen to the top we thought we’d have a brief chat with the grand prize winner of the Fallout 10th Anniversary contest to find out more about Marc-André [...]

Fallout Contest Winners

The results of the Fallout 10th Anniversary Contest are finally out:
After plowing through more entries than we ever thought possible, we whittled the list of over 17,000 entries down to the 12 finalists and picked a winner for the Fallout 10th Anniversary Contest. The entry that came out on top was ‘Grim Reaper’s Sprint,’ [...]

Enough Cookies For All

Matt “Gstaff” Grandstaff brings some thoughts on the Fallout 10th Anniversary Contest:
The winner doesn’t come from me. I listed several dozens that I saw as “favorites,” but the devs ultimately decide this based on what they like, what fits, what’s funny, what isn’t already in the game, etc, etc.
We’ll be giving out bonus prizes [...]

The Results are Coming

So when are we going to know the results of the Fallout 10th Anniversary Contest? Matt “Gstaff” Grandstaff had this to say:
If I had to guess, I’d say we should have stuff done by the end of the month. That said, Thanksgiving is towards the end of the month, so if possible, we might [...]

Almost Over

The Fallout 10th Anniversary Contest is about to end, you have until midnight Rockville-Md time to send your Perks.
Go on, not much time left.
Update: It’s over now, good luck to everyone that participated.

Brief and Nuclear Roundup

Just some brief notes before we start a new week:
Matt “Gstaff” Grandstaff asked the Bethesda Fallout 3 forum community to help him out:
So between the moderators and some of you guys, I’ve gotten some requests that we update our emoticons (or smileys, or whatever you want to call them). Pete and I talked about it, [...]

4 Days Until the End!

Only four days until the end of the Design a Perk Fallout 10th Anniversary Contest, time to send your last entries!
Here is the list of prizes:

PC Grand Prize:
Your choice of an ATI or NVIDIA video card
Logitech G15 keyboard
Logitech G9 mouse
Logitech G51 Gaming Speakers
Vault Boy bobblehead
Vault Tec lunchbox
Fallout 3 t-shirt
Vault Boy decal

OR

Console [...]

Over 9000 Fallout Perks

So how is the Design a Perk Contest going on? Matt “Gstaff” Grandstaff replies:
Hmm, as of the 11th, we had around 9,700 entries.
You still have until the end of the month to participate, so what are you waiting for?

Before Fallout 3 there was a One and a Two

From NMA:
10 years ago:
Project Update: We are working on a patch for some of the various bugs, and we are building and testing the localized versions for Australia and the UK. The translated language versions are waiting on translations back from the translators (German, French and Spanish). The FAQ page has been updated, please [...]

Back to the Future

From No Mutants Allowed:
Well isn’t this funny? Unexpectedly, the material keeps on coming. Desslock, the well-known RPG guru who used to run his own RPG news site on GameSpot and now has his RPG columns on PC Gamer, once interviewed Tim Cain in 1997, prior to the release of Fallout. And today Desslock was [...]

Perk Requirements

On the subject of the Fallout 10th Anniversary Contest our friend Role Player asked this on the Bethesda Blog:
Something puzzles me though. You say we shouldn’t worry about any stat or level requirements. That’s fine. But how can we explain what we have envisioned for the Perk? Should people just submit [...]

Fallout Retrospective Interview at NMA

From No Mutants Allowed:
In celebration of Fallout’s 10th anniversary, NMA gathered a number of former leads that guided the series during its evolution at Interplay and Black Isle Studios. They answered us 10 questions looking back to the game, its influence on them and its fans, with one bonus question for two of them.
The [...]

Fallout 10th Anniversary Contest: Chengs Ideas

So the Fallout 10th Anniversary Design a Perk Contest is still on, and it will be until the end of the month. Meanwhile Bethesda’s Ashley Cheng showed a few Perks of his own, that won’t be featured in the game:
Token Asian: If there aren’t any Asian people living there, I’m not living there either! With [...]

Vault13: Timeline

From The Vault:
The timeline is one of the oldest released Fallout design documents, written by Scott Campbell. It was released on October 6, 2007 at The Vault, as part of Fallout’s 10th anniversary celebration. You can also download the timeline as a PDF file.
If you are interested in the changes that took place later, [...]

Inside the Vault, Fallout 10th Anniversary edition

From the Bethesda blog:
This week is a special Q&A for Inside the Vault in honor of the 10th anniversary of Fallout. One question. Lots of answers. We asked the team: What did you like best about the original Fallout games? This was a fun one to put together, a terrific read. Even a couple [...]

Fallout 10th Anniversary Contest Official Rules

Here are the rules:

The Fallout 10th Anniversary Contest presented by Bethesda Softworks LLC (the “Contest”) begins at 12:00 a.m. Eastern Time (“ET”) on October 1, 2007 and ends at 11:59 p.m. ET on October 31, 2007 (“Contest Period”).
Eligibility. Contest is offered to individuals who are at least eighteen (18) years old [...]

Fallout 3 Forum State of the Art

Things have been slow on the Bethesda Forum Fallout 3 forum, still a few highlights for you, starting with the discussion about the Morbus Gameplay Rant article that you can read in this blog article section. The reactions went from forum member JFiresom excited “Great great read! Made back in early July and still so [...]