Many people might have been disappointed to hear that Bethesda Softworks' upcoming post-apocalypse RPG Fallout 3 won't have any mod tools when it is released in late October. In the past, Bethsoft has released mod tools for its last two Elder Scrolls games but according to a new chat with Pete Hines for Rock Paper Shotgun, the company is too busy finishing the game to work on mod tools for Fallout 3.

Hines denies rumors that they don't want Fallout 3 mod tools to be released because that might cut into their plans for their own paid downloadable content. He states, "If we have the time, we'd absolutely like to put them out. As we've seen with Oblivion and Morrowind those things definitely create a sense of community and there's tonnes of people out there modding." However he adds, "It's just the tools take time. They don't magically appear. Someone's got to write help files for what all the scripts do, and get it released as a consumer product. Because it's not in that state otherwise. Developers will make do with anything."