Fallout: New Vegas lead designer J.E. Sawyer has released his own unofficial mod for the game which fixes gameplay balance. The mod cuts the level cap, XP gain, health and healing, while buffing certain weapons and armor.
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The long, vindictive legal dispute between Bethesda Softworks and Interplay over the Fallout-licensed MMO has finally been resolved, as Interplay accepted a $2M settlement from Bethesda's parent company ZeniMax, with each party agreeing to cover its own legal costs.
As with the Dragon Age Ultimate Edition, the Fallout: New Vegas Ultimate Edition has been announced and contains every single bit of DLC released for the first person RPG, including the major add-ons like Dead Money, Honest Hearts, Old World Blues and Lonesome Road, as well as the small DLC releases including the Courier's Stash and Gun Runners' Arsenal packs that brought unique weapons, ammo and recipes to the game.
Influential concept artist Adam Adamowicz, whose work included Fallout 3 and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim for Bethesda Softworks, passed away on the 8th February. He is credited with giving games like Fallout 3 their unique look through non-digital artwork. Adamowicz died after a long battle with cancer.
It begins. Double Fine is doing doubly fine with their Kickstarter project, so now it seems others want a slice of the community-funded pie. Veteran designer Brian Fargo wants more Wasteland. The 1988 post-apocalyptic RPG was thought of as a defining title for its time, and was a precursor to Fallout. Fargo now runs studio inXile and he wants to know if fans want more.
Bethesda Softworks has revealed that downloadable content for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim will be handled differently than it was for Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas. According to the developer, the Skyrim DLC will be bigger, "more expansive" and more spaced apart than the smaller DLC packs for the Fallout games.
Bethesda Softworks has announced a new two-game bundle for PC and Xbox 360, the Fallout 3 & Oblivion Double Pack, which will be released on the 3rd April.
Bethesda's Todd Howard has stated that the developer's patched The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim more than any game they have released before, including The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion and Fallout 3, and still considers Skyrim the company's "most solid release".
Good Old Games (GoG.com) is giving away Interplay's original classic post-apocalyptic RPG, Fallout, for free for the next two days. This is a part of the digital distributor's campaign to show off its new, redesigned site. The distributor is best known for releasing all of its games completely DRM-free, including The Witcher 2.
Developers Tim Cain and Chris Avellone will lend their Fallout expertise to the Nuka Break web show project if its Kickstarter campaign secures $120k in pledges. What kind of help? Cain and Avellone will lend their mutant writing brains to Nuka Break, helping with story, characters, creatures and scenery. They'd also guest star in season two of the web show.
The reactions to Bethesda's The Elder Scrolls Online MMO has been mixed, as the studio was expecting them to be. Some assumed it would be "Skyrim, but massively multiplayer." That level of fidelity though can't be reached for an MMO, says Pete Hines. When it was "first conceived" they knew it would get mixed commentary, and likened it to Fallout 3's beginnings.
The upcoming free Earth multiplayer downloadable content for Mass Effect 3 highlights the upcoming Xbox Live Marketplace content revealed by Major Nelson's blog. Other notable offerings includes a Bethesda DLC sale with content for Oblivion and Fallout 3 at 50% off, followed by a half-off sale for Ubisoft games. The Summer of Arcade proceedings start with the release of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater HD on the 18th July as well.
The next destination for the Fallout franchise appears to be the city of Boston, if rumours are to be believed. Speculation is high that the story will focus on The Institute, the android making capital. The Institute is the nickname for the actual Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A "may or may not be" MIT employee claims "rumors are true" about the Boston setting. Bethesda is quiet.
The Australian team behind Fallout: Lanius has debuted the fan film's first trailer. Chronicling the origins story of Fallout: New Vegas' Lanius, the group are aiming to create a larger-scale homage to Obsidian's title.
Actor Todd Dellums lent his voice to Fallout 3's Three Dog, who hosted a radio show in the Capital Wasteland. A recent tweet from Dellums says there "may be more of the Dog coming!" He was "given permission" by Bethesda to dangle the notion of more Fallout to fans. While not revealing anything more, Dellums did retweet someone pointing to Fallout 4, or a movie.
A user on Reddit has made some waves claiming to be have a friend in public relations with Bethesda with some info about the unannounced Fallout 4, which he claims will be a "direct sequel" to Fallout 3 and will take place in Boston.
CEO Feargus Urquhart of Obsidian Entertainment would love another crack at the gambling capital of the world revisiting Fallout: New Vegas, or just the series in general. Fallout: L.A.? They'd definitely stick to the West Coast, so it would "probably be The Boneyard," which is the city built apart L.A.'s ruins. There are plenty of obstacles right now, like platform limbo.
Today's Xbox Live Markteplace deals will include The Amazing Spider-Man on Games on Demand and downloadable content chiefly from Fallout 3. Players can purchase all 5 Fallout 3 DLC packs for 1000 Microsoft Points ($12.50 USD), a 75% discount off the normal $50 USD.
Nuclear post-apocalypse isn't on the agenda for Bethesda at this year's E3 according to an E3 invite sent out, which mentioned only three titles being presented with only two playable at the event. The Evil Within, Wolfenstein: The New Order and The Elder Scrolls Online are noted in the invite. The team behind Skyrim has moved on, possibly to a new Fallout?
Bethesda had a press only presentation behind closed doors at E3 last week, and apparently it was Fallout 4. It's alleged to be coming to Xbox 360, PS3, Xbox One, PS4 and PC in October 2015 - it's 55% done? It's been in development since January 2011 by a small dev team, according to leaks. Skyrim's development ending beefed up the Fallout 4 effort. A 37 second trailer was shown to attendees.