The highly anticipated Fallout 3 is set to launch come the end of this month, and Bethesda’s prepared to ring it in with a bang.

Next Saturday, Bethesda will be throwing a launch party for Fallout 3 in Los Angeles. It’s sure to entertain, as hosts will include Courtney Cox (there’s a Friendly face), David Arquette, Odette Yustman, Ben Harper, and the Zenimax board of directors.

In the spirit of the event, the Foo Fighers are scheduled to nuke every living organizim within a 25 yard radius. We’re just kidding. They’ll be performing their music of course.

Fallout 3 is set to release October 28th, 2008 for the Xbox 360, PC, and PlayStation 3.

Eat lead, you dirty pirates!

Fallout 3, one of the most highly anticipated titles for Xbox 360 and PS3, is already available for illegal download. It seems that PC games are not the only ones to fall prey to the digital cutlasses of piracy.

With only three weeks until the game’s official release (Oct. 28), the leak will only serve as bragging rights to asshole gamers who simply need to play the game before anyone else does. The pirated version of the game is brought to you by the same people that ruined Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. Read more…

Edge-Online has details on the system specifications for the PC version of Bethesda’s upcoming epic Fallout 3. While those of us running ancient machines will bow our heads in shame, most recent PCs should be able to handle the beast.

Fallout 3 releases October 28, 30 and 31 in North America, Australia and Europe, and the UK respectively. Hit the jump for the full specs. Read more…

Fall is fast approaching, and your bank balance will soon be dropping faster than the leaves on the tree outside your window. Naturally, you may not be able to decide for yourself which of the plethora of games to splurge your life’s savings on, and that’s where I come in.

Think of me as your personal assistant — ready to passively (and aggressively) project my thoughts and opinions onto you. Thank me later. Read more…

Game advertisements, from the Halo 3 commercials last year to the Gears of War “Mad World” ad the year before, have gotten pretty damn impressive in recent times - and the trend’s continuing heading into this fall’s blockbuster season. Take this Fallout 3 ad, for example, snapped in a DC metro station by Ripten reader John Cangany.

It’s a pretty powerful image (and maybe a potentially controversial one) - the battered and broken Washington monument looming behind some twisted version of the American flag, and that robot guy that’s in all the Fallout media (sorry Fallout fans I don’t know what he’s called).

According to John’s account, plenty of people, most presumably unaware of the context of the game’s setting, found the ad totally compelling:

Anyway, metro riders were transfixed by this ad…people STARED. Like, legit stared, as if the ad were either a really pretty or really ugly, disfigured lady.

Nice way of putting it. In other words: good advertising.

The Xbox 360’s big hitters this Fall, namely Fable 2, Fallout 3, and Gears of War 2, are actually set to release in India a full week prior to the official worldwide release dates.  Apparently, this is Microsoft’s way of saying “thanks” to its customer service department. Read more…

According to an interview with Pete Hines from Rock, Paper, Shotgun; the PC version of Fallout 3 will not come with a mod kit out the gate, and while he doesn’t rule one out in the future, it’s as good as locked in a vault for now.

Hines said that producing the mod tools takes a helluva lotta time and effort, and that people have become to accustomed to having them in Bethesda games, but this time, no dice. Read more…

Bethesda Softworks, developers of the soon-be-be-realized apocalypse that is Fallout 3, have recently launched a new promotional site for the game. Designed in the retro-futuristic informational style that we’ve all come to love, prepareforthefuture.com is presented via a Radiation King television set. Read more…

PAX has begun, and with it has stirred the communal gamer vibe that continues to make it the gamer event of the year. The Washington Convention Center is crawling with gamers of every stripe and every developer worth a toss has shown up to show off.

The gaming press was allowed early entry into the exhibition hall and we quickly devolved into a heaving pack of sibilant monkeys as we ran from booth to booth. With so much to look at, we were afflicted, if momentarily, by a communal form of ADD. Read more…

Let the countdown begin.

Bethesda’s long-awaited Fallout 3 is coming out on October 28, the studio announced today. The release will be “one of the biggest launches of any game this year,” boasts Bethesda president Vlatko Andonov, and will hit all platforms simultaneously. The game will be available in Europe three days later, on Halloween. Which begs the question: Do they even celebrate Halloween in Europe?

Full press release after the jump. Read more…

My inability to read Chinese will probably lead to an article mistranslation, but courtesy of Kotaku & cng4u, we now have 137 images of Fallout 3, from the ZeniMax Asia Expo (ZeniMax Media is the company that owns Fallout 3 developers Bethesda.)

Though I’m sure those in attendance at the expo were all forced to comply with an NDA before seeing game footage, there’s always that one guy that never takes the NDA seriously. Hit the jump to see the fruits of his labor.

Fallout 3 hits the Xbox 360, PS3, and PC simultaneously in North America on October 7th of this year.
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The Australian government has reversed a ban on the forthcoming Fallout 3 due to gamer objections.

The Office of Film and Literature Classification originally had banned Fallout 3 due to its in-game drug use, rendering the game illegal for sale in Australia. Read more…

“Hey Ladies and Gents, purchase little Jimmy an ice cold Nuka-Cola! It’s twelve ounces of liquid refreshment, tastes great, and scientifically proven to help his skin grow! Yum! The Taste of a Dead Generation!” Read more…

Bethesda’s Peter Hines recently touched on why they prefer the Xbox 360 over the PC and other gaming systems and also confirmed plans for Fallout 4. Read it up after the break. Read more…

Don’t wait for the apocalypse.

You may remember Vault-Tec as the company that built all of the underground vaults in the Fallout game series, which takes place in a post-apocalyptic world. The recently released Fallout 3 trailer tells us to reserve our vaults by calling 1-888-4VAULT-TEC, so I did just that. Read more…

I don’t think it showed, but I was completely flustered when I conducted this interview. That’s not an excuse, that’s testament to how absolutely blown away I was when Andrew and I finished our thirty minutes with the game. I’m just glad that every question wasn’t, “Hey, remember when that was awesome, like 30 minutes ago, and… tell me about that awesome.”

Click the jump for Pete Hines’ take on Fallout 3’s Achievements, violence, and why Fallout was better than Fallout 2. Read more…

A lot of times you’ll hear about religious lunatics who can’t wait for the impending apocalypse. I never understood how they can look forward to something as utterly tragic as Doomsday.

Well, I have seen the blasted, radioactive future—and it is fun. Assuming our hands and eyeballs haven’t melted into goo, we can all anticipate an endlessly entertaining nuclear aftermath, as portrayed by Fallout 3. Read more…

Are your eyes securely fastened inside your head? Is your jaw prepared to be dropped? Are you wearing rubber underwear (looking at you here, Wade)? If so, feast your brain on these amazing new gameplay demos, which premiered today at Microsoft’s press conference at E3. Read more…

As a longtime Fallout fan, the possibilities of Fallout 3 have me quite excited.  When I saw the first teaser for the game, I got goose bumps.  Now Bethesda unleashes this “new” trailer over a year later, and it is almost the same trailer all over again! Read more…

Terrorists know no limits when it comes to threats of violence– sort of like how tabloids know no limits when it comes to poor taste or incorrect facts. Check out this “terrifying vision” of the future, printed in UK rag The Daily Mail, which is actually a repurposed screenshot from Bethesda’s Fallout 3. Read more…