Fallout: New Vegas developer Obsidian Entertainment has a new videogame in the works codenamed 'Project Virginia' reveals a 3D artist's resume. They led a team of artists to "accomplish artistic goals" for the project which is due for release in 2011. This is Obsidian's 10th project - "small and private".
So far over 20,000 have digitally inked their signature to an online petition calling for the industry to implement fully customisable controls in all games. It began after a disabled gamer complained EA doesn't let you customise controls in Dead Space 2. He plays Fallout: New Vegas without use of his hands.
Fallout: New Vegas developer Obsidian Entertainment cites the Gamebyro engine created by Bethesda Softworks as the main reason for tech troubles. As it wasn't an internally made, like Dungeon Siege III's Onyx engine, the Obsidian team found it difficult to really know what the technology could manage.
This week's US PlayStation Store update has plugged in new goodies for the PlayStation Network across the Atlantic pond. It's got the Dragon Age II demo! There's also a demo for Lego Star Wars III: The Clone Wars and Yakuza 4. There's also Killzone 3 Retro Pack DLC and Fallout: New Vegas' Dead Money.
PC and PlayStation 3 owners finally get to enjoy the Xbox 360 limited-time exclusive Fallout: New Vegas downloadable content, "Dead Money".
RPG developer Obsidian Entertainment has a few projects looking to get the full steam ahead treatment, including a fantasy RPG codenamed 'Defiance'. They've got an "original IP XBLA game" in the works too. That's alongside Dungeon Siege III, Fallout: New Vegas DLC and a "new world" they started pitching.
Play.tm is claiming they have the names and the release dates of the new Fallout: New Vegas DLC, and that it's coming out as early as next week.
What digital stuff can Xbox Live users get all tingly over? Well Major Nelson has spilled the near future schedule for us on DLC, deals and downloadables. There are savings to be had April 1st on Comic Jumper, Fallout: New Vegas and Fable III. The Stacking add-on arrives April 6th. L.A. Noire avatars tomorrow!
Duck and Cover, a Fallout fan site, is claiming that the next DLC for Fallout: New Vegas has been leaked, and will be called "Honest Hearts".
Bethesda has posted a message in the Bethblog forums, stating that not only is the "upcoming DLC" (which we know already to be Honest Hearts thanks to a leaked trailer and some screenshots) finished, but a patch is going to be released before the DLC release.
Online retailer Amazon, a professional bean spiller, has listed Fallout: New Vegas. This is the much coveted Game of the Year Edition though and it's for all. This would mean all the updates so far and all available DLC for it would be bundled together. New Vegas is believed to be receiving 3 bits of DLC.
The 1.3 patch for Fallout: New Vegas is now available via automatic update or patch download, reports Steam. The patch basically tweaks and configures weaponry.
Bethesda Softworks today announced that three downloadable content packs will be released in the coming months for Fallout: New Vegas. The three packs will be released simultaneously for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC. Available on May 17th for Xbox 360 and PC and May 18th for PlayStation 3, Honest Hearts takes you on an expedition to the unspoiled wilderness of Utah's Zion National Park. Things go horribly wrong when your caravan is ambushed by a tribal raiding band...
Obsidian Entertainment are determined not to have Dungeon Siege III's launch spoiled by roaming bands of bugs and glitches, unlike Fallout: New Vegas. It's "difficult to get a game the size" of New Vegas squeaky clean, but CEO Feargus Urquhart admits that's "an excuse" that doesn't fly when "someone’s paid $60".
The Dead Money DLC for Fallout: New Vegas was for the "survival/horror experience," and so stripped our gear. This won't be happening with the others. In Honest Hearts and Old World Blues add-ons we can "return freely to both locations" from the Mojave. Lonesome Road is returnable but "a bit different."
Xbox Live is now offering Obsidian Entertainment's Fallout: New Vegas - Honest Hearts DLC and it weighs in at 254.28MB and at a cost of 800 Microsoft Points. Honest Hearts will also release for PS3 and PC. This latest DLC takes players to Utah's Zion National Park which is unspoilt by the nuclear fallout; it's tribal.
There's trouble in the Mojave for Fallout: New Vegas as the Honest Hearts DLC is having trouble starting for some as the 'E-DE, My Love' quest bugs out. Bethesda are working on a fix but it "will not apply" to those already experiencing the glitch. You need to load a previous save in order to experience the DLC.
Very stormy clouds loom over publisher Interplay as a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commision reveal how troubled their company is. If they "do not receive sufficient financing" then Interplay must "liquidate assets", or be "forced into bankruptcy", unless they keep going but suffer "material harm".
A job post for a "2D character animator" over at Obsidian Entertainment mentions work on a "highly stylized, high profile role playing game" at the studio. Could this mean a slick looking 2D RPG from Obsidian? They want someone who's worked on a shipped console title, and with "mobile or browser" know-how.
No longer releasing this month, Fallout: New Vegas' Old World Blues DLC is now heading for July. A trailer for the latest add-on will arrive "in the coming weeks". It will release on all thee platforms simultaneously. We learn how Majove's monster population came to be as we "unwittingly become a lab rat".