Fallout 3 Gold! It’s Official Now

From the Official Site:
October 9, 2008 (Rockville, MD) – Bethesda Softworks®, a ZeniMax Media company,  announced today that its highly anticipated title, Fallout® 3, has gone gold and will be available on store shelves and online in North America on October 28, in Europe and Australia on October 30, and in the UK [...]

IGN Fallout 3 week: Good Karma

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When Emil Speaks An Angel Gets Some Wings and a Beard

And Emil Pagliarulo decided to reply to an impromptu interview on the Bethesda Games Fallout 3 forum:
Can you target cars in VATS to explode?
Emil: No, you can’t. We actually experimented with that for a while, but found that the “battlefield” got so littered with “explodable” objects that you ended up having too many targets to [...]

Joystiq Fallout 3 Special

Joystiq also played Fallout 3 at PAX, and has an interesting piece to prove it. Here’s a snippet from some quick notes at the end:

On the topic of sex. “We haven’t pushed the limits with sex,” said Pagliarulo. “We found that the whole adult content thing, we knew we’d have crazy over-the-top violence and have [...]

A Bit Late For Leipzig

There’s a lot of catching up to do by this blog regarding Fallout 3 in Leipzig, so let’s start, with the help of NMA’s Leipzig news coverage.
First the spoiler heavy UGO Gamesblog Vault 106 walkthrough:
In no time I had my task: deliver a letter from a Megaton denizen to her relatives in Arefu, a nearby [...]

New Interview at EuroGamer

Eurogamer interviews Pete Hines, and this one is rather interesting for a change:
Eurogamer: A lot of the humour in Fallout 3 revolves around ironic juxtaposing of cheerful utopianism and grim reality. Is there a line at which that becomes trite?
Pete Hines: If it’s overdone and it’s not in the right tone, it absolutely does. Our [...]

EB Games Australia: Fallout 3 Release Date

Here’s a press release from EB Games as seen on GamerChip:
Fallout 3 MA15 and coming October 17th!
11/08/2008
Today is a great day for Australian Fallout fans! After recent news that Fallout 3 had been refused classification by the OFLC, many of us were worried that we wouldn’t see one of the biggest game of the [...]

Hines on Pacifism and SPECIAL

I’ve been a bit busy in the last few days, and somehow forgot to post about Guardian games blog posting the second part of an interview with Pete Hines based on questions from fans:
Will weapons require a minimum Strength? Or only a minimum in its governing attribute? (Perception = Energy, Endurance = Big, Agility = [...]

Fallout 3 Welt

GamersGlobal already had a Fallout 3 preview, now they added a small interview with Pete Hines:
In our Fallout 3 preview from E3 we have criticized Fallout 3 for feeling too easy in our test session. We’ve asked Pete Hines from Bethesda for some clarifications (by e-mail), and here are his answers:
1. Was the E3 version [...]

E3 Game Critics Awards

Fallout 3 won the Best of Show and Best RPG awards. Congratulations to Bethesda Softworks.

Kotaku Picks Fallout 3

On the picks for the E3 Game Critics Awards Kotaku chose Fallout 3 as Best Game, Best RPG and Best Console Game.

Fallout 3: Emil Clears Things Up With More Detail

Pretty relevant post from Emil Pagliarulo, this one clears several issues of importance:
What was said recently, by both Todd and me, is that in real-time, skill affects chance to hit less than it used to. This change was made after extensive playtesting. Why? Most everyone found it annoying that you’d have your crosshair over an [...]

Fallout Fries

French CanardPlus Emil Zoulou is asking for questions from fans about what he saw in the Fallout 3 demo, here’s something from NMA:
Here’s some chances to scratch out some more info from the meager offerings of this E3. First, Canardplus (who you may remember from this preview) contacted us to extend the offer to try [...]

And Yet More Awards

Fallout 3 won the GameDaily’s Best of E3 award:
Going into E3, this was one of our most anticipated games of 2008. Leaving E3, it’s now at the top of the list. Fallout 3 is in the very capable hands of Bethesda Softworks, the team behind The Elder Scrolls series, and the ways the developers have [...]

Fallout 3: E3 Awards and Opinions

IGN gave Fallout 3 his Best of E3 Award:
While I knew that Bethesda could deliver in terms of story and convincing world creation, the big unknown for me has always been the actual gameplay. Fortunately, I got to play through a good bit of the game at the show and I was really impressed with [...]

Fallout 3: The Mother Of All Interviews

Very interesting and detailed interview with Todd Howard and Emil Pagliarulo at GamesRadar/PCGamer, it’s filled with spoilers though:
PCG: Do you have a rule for a bare-minimum number of ways to solve a quest?
Todd: No, we just do whatever comes naturally. We made a list initially showing the paths, so that we weren’t doing an overabundance [...]

Fallout Sensibilities and Mannerisms At PCZone

PCZone Will Porter
There are still Fallout 3 at E3 previews showing up, you can find a new list at NMA, instead I’ll just point out to this article at CVG/PCZone, that I’ve talked about before, now you can read it in full:
Is Fallout 3 Oblivion with guns? No, not really. While it’s true that when [...]