Fallout 3

Bethesda Softworks Interview

The editors at MCV UK chatted up Bethesda’s Pete Hines during his European tour about a variety of topics related to Fallout 3, Fallout: New Vegas, Hunted: The Demon’s Forge, and The Elder Scrolls. A couple of excerpts: Fallout 3…

Character Creation, Gender, And Fallout 3

Gamasutra is offering up a retrospective-of-sorts for Fallout 3, focusing primarily on the game’s pace, character creation, “environmental storytelling”, and how the team at Bethesda overlooked the female protagonist. Fallout 3 concerns a man who has made significant sacrifices in…

Fallout 3 and Guild Wars Trilogy 50% Off

There are a couple of good video game sales worth mentioning today, including GamersGate’s 50% off promotion on Fallout 3 ($14.97) and Steam’s 50% off promotion on the Guild Wars Trilogy ($19.99). Either way, you really can’t go wrong.

Bethesda Softworks Expands in Europe

Bethesda Softworks sent out a press release this afternoon announcing that they’ve opened new offices in Paris, France and Frankfurt, Germany.  Preparing for the future, I suppose: BETHESDA SOFTWORKS EXPANDS GLOBAL OPERATIONS Bethesda Softworks Opens Offices in France and Germany…

Bethesda Softworks Online Store Relaunched

Those of you who have been waiting to purchase DLC for the PC version of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion should be happy to hear that Bethesda has relaunched their online store and directed the previously defunct Oblivion Downloads website…

Inon Zur Interview

Composer Inon Zur (whose most recent works include Dragon Age: Origins, Fallout 3, and Fallout: New Vegas) has been interviewed by the folks at Game Central about a variety of topics related to his video game composing career. A couple…

Fallout 3 Retrospective

Even though the game is less than 18 months old, Resolution Magazine felt it was necessary to conjure up a two-page retrospective for Bethesda’s iteration of Fallout 3. However, the article reads much more like a review, and a scathing…

Prepare For the Future by Buying Some Vault Space

I suppose it’s possible that this is some sort of marketing ploy for Fallout: New Vegas, but it appears that some company intends to start selling living space in underground vault-like bunkers (“Vivos complexes”) between Los Angeles and Las Vegas…

Am I Evil? – Moral Choices in Video Games

The guys at Thunderbolt have conjured up an editorial called “Am I Evil?”, during which they examine the moral choices that video games have been presenting to us in recent years. BioShock, BioShock 2, Fable II, and Fallout 3 are…