"Gone Gold" announcements are usually anti-climatic when a publisher has already announced a release date for the game in question. But they are still fun to know about anyway. So it goes with Fallout 3, the post-apocalyse RPG from Bethesda Softworks that got the "gone gold" label today, according to a press release over at Worthplaying.

The game is still set for release in the US on Oct. 28.which means we just have 20 more days until we start leaving the Vault and exploring the blasted out remains of the Washington DC area. Europeans have to wait until All Hallow's Eve to get their copy of the game. Remember that while Fallout 3 won't have a mod edition out of the box (it may be released later) new content for the game is planned after its release.