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First announced back in April 2009, the next edition in the Fallout series has finally had its first footage. The Fallout New Vegas Teaser reveals it will launch at the end of 2010 on PC, XBOX 360 and PS3. Bethesda are on publishing duties, with Obsidian developing the game.

Bethesda has announced it will taking over publishing duties for the first-person shooter Rage. Electronic Arts were due to be publishing the game. It is being developed by id Software and is scheduled for a 2010 release on PC, XBOX 360 and PS3. This announcement is not affecting the development process.

A host of E3 material has been released with the main event kicking off next week. Bethesda and Splash Damage fans will be intrigued by BRINK – a new title heading out at the start of 2010. Electronic Arts has put out more footage of Need for Speed: Shift and The Saboteur, plus unlockable content [...]

Bethesda has confirmed that it is to publish WET, the third person shooter title from development studio A2M. The game was set for a 2008 release, but was a victim of the Activision/Vivendi merger. It will now be making a splash on the PS3 and XBOX 360 in the latter stages of this year.

Bethesda has announced that it is releasing a new Fallout title in 2010, called Fallout: New Vegas. It is not a follow-up to Fallout 3, instead it is a standalone title set in the Fallout universe and will be released for the PC, XBOX 360 and PS3. Obsidian, the studio behind Neverwinter Nights 2 and [...]

Following news that Fallout 3 has had to remove certain drug references in order to gain classification in Australia, the game’s Product Manager, Pete Hines, has lashed out against the ratings agencies, and their varying standards. “The frustrating thing for us is that the standards and rules can be so varied across territories, that we [...]

  Massive interview with Executive Producer Todd Howard answering some popular fan questions just went up over at Bethesda’s site.  There’s loads of new in depth details there, so well worth checking out. Even I, with my jaded ‘what do Bethesda know about story and atmosphere’ perspective, was suitably enthralled. For those that can’t be [...]

This one kicked off a week or so ago, when Game Plasma posted a comment on unknown adventure title Limbo of the Lost. As you can see from the images above, Limbo’s levels bear an uncanny resemblance to areas originally appearing in Bethesda’s The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion. The game’s publisher issued a swift response. “Tri [...]

Lots and lots of new info on Fallout 3 emerged recently, and I’ve been kind enough to sum it all up for you. First off, the 360 has been confirmed as the lead platform – a stark departure from the hardcore PC gaming approach of the previous, non-Bethesda iterations. Apparently it’s because they had mroe [...]

Bethesda has recently been running a competition on its website to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Fallout series. Fans were asked to submit ideas for perks – Fallout’s version of traits. Sadly, the big winner was a sensible, useful gameplay mechanic, rather than something ludicrous. ‘Grim Reaper’s Sprint’ refills players’ move action points every [...]

Yes, I go on about Portal quite a lot. That’s because it’s ace. It’s not taken long for the first really decent community-developed map to appear for Portal, even if it is developed by a designer at Bethesda. The map itself is difficult. Really difficult. Which serves a good purpose, given that Portal itself was fairly [...]

Zenimax Media, the guys who own Bethesda (of Oblivion fame) and recently bought the rights to the Fallout series have just received an investment of $300 million from Providence Equity Partners “to finance future MMOG activity”. Oblivion Online? Fallout Online? Bethesda are the masters of open-worlds and story lines that are strong and compelling, but [...]