Fallout-3 posts

GoGamer.com has launched their latest 48 Hour Madness sale on their site and this time the PC game sales are mostly of recently released titles rather than those that are several years old. Indeed the sale includes the just released Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen game which is priced at just $19.99 for the sales time period.

Also cut in price is Spore Galactic Adventures, the first real expansion pack for the alien evolution sim. GoGamer has the title available for $24.90. Other games with price cuts include Fallout 3 ($32.90) Grand Ages: Rome ($12.90) and Terminator: Salvation ($24.90). The sale lasts until 3 am ET on Tuesday.

Point Lookout, the latest downloadable content expansion for Fallout 3, takes a short break from the retro sci-fi theme that defines the rest of the game. Instead, this new area centers on more of a B-movie horror theme. Players get to go to some secluded swamplands and unload using a double-barreled shotgun on its mutated, cannibalistic, locals while confronting a local cult. In the meantime, you end up in the middle of a long running feud, uncover a book of the occult, and brew up some moonshine.

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Australia is already known as a country that won't allow certain games to be sold because of their lack of a adult rating for game titles. Many games, including the above Fallout 3, have to be edited in order to comply with Australia's MA15+ rating. Now a new media report states that the country's government is moving to go beyond just monitoring retail games.

According to a story on TheAge.com.au, the government is thinking about censoring web sites that sell games beyond the MA15+ ratings along with Flash games and downloadable titles. This could affect MMO games such as World of Warcraft and others which are currently exempt from the ratings system. Naturally this move has angered many in the country. Electronic Frontiers Australia spokesperson Colin Jacobs stated, "Far from being the ultimate weapon against child abuse, it now will officially censor content deemed too controversial for a 15-year-old. In a free country like ours, do we really need the government to step in and save us from racy web games?"

This patch for Fallout 3 updates the game to v1.6 and installs the Point Lookout achievements.

Download Fallout 3 v1.6 Patch [US] (51 MB)
Download Fallout 3 v1.6 Patch [UK] (51 MB)
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Bethesda Softworks is getting ready to release the fourth mini-expansion to their best selling open world RPG Fallout 3. Today the game's official web site has added six new screenshots from the DLC expansion, Point Lookout, along with an extensive developer's diary on the expansion

The dev diary talks about how the creative team used the real swamp and marsh land region around the real Point Lookout, MD as their basis for the setting of the expansion along with trying out some new artisitic styles and putting more of a dense setting than the original game's Capital Wasteland. The expansion will be available for purhase and download via Games for Windows Live on June 23.

We expected The Sims 3 to be on top of its first week on the NPD Group's weekly top 10 best selling PC games list and we were not dissapointed. Both the regular people sim game from EA and the collector's edition were number one and two, respectively, on the list for sales the week ending June 6.

One other interesting addition; apparently not every owner of Fallout 3 downloaded the first two mini-expansions. The retail release of Operation Anchorage and The Pitt showed up at number 10 on the list.

1. The Sims 3 - Electronic Arts
2. The Sims 3 Collector's Edition - Electronic Arts
3. The Sims 2 Double Deluxe - Electronic Arts
4. World Of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King - Blizzard
5. World Of Warcraft Battle Chest - Blizzard
6. Spore - Electronic Arts
7. Real Deal Slots Adventure - Phantom EFX
8. World Of Warcraft - Blizzard
9. Empire: Total War - Creative Assembly/Sega
10. Fallout 3 Operation Anchorage & The Pitt - Bethesda Softworks

This trailer is for the upcoming Fallout 3 downloadable content expansion, Point Lookout, scheduled to release later this month on June 23.

"Point Lookout opens up a massive new area of the Wasteland – a, dark, murky swampland along the coast of Maryland. So hop on the ferry to the seaside town of Point Lookout, for the most mysterious and open-ended Fallout 3 DLC adventure yet. Point Lookout is the most open-ended DLC yet, and allows you to explore a huge, swampy wasteland any way you'd like. A completely new quest line allows you uncover the town's hidden secrets and wield powerful new weapons like the Double-Barrel Shotgun against the swamp's dangerous, and deformed, denizens."

Download HD Fallout 3 Point Lookout Trailer (52 MB)
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On the last day of E3 2009, the Guinness World Records organization announced that a number of PC game developers and publishers were honored with brand new records for game sales. Above you can see Blizzard execs Mike Morhaime and Paul Sams accepting two awards; one for World of Warcraft becoming the most popular MMO with 11.6 million subscribers and the other for the original Starcraft becoming the world's most successul PC strategy game with 9.6 million copies sold.

Also honored during E3 was Bethesda Softworks for the fastest-selling multi-platform RPG. That would be for Fallout 3 which sold a total of 4.7 million copies in its first week on sale. Finally the US music group The Dares were honored as the first such group to hold a concert in both the real world and in the virtual world at the same time for a performace at E3 while also "performing" inside Sony Online's free-to-play MMO Free Realms.

We got to visit Bethesda Softworks' E3 2009 booth today where they had quite a few games to check out. Sadly Fallout: New Vegas was not one of them but they did show a build from Fallout 3: Point Lookout, the next DLC mini-expansion for their post-apocalypse RPG.

Like the three previous DLC expansions, this fourth entry is designed to be played for between three to five hours. It takes place in a vast swampland area that is actually based on the real marshlands of southern Maryland. You won't have too long to wait for this next DLC. It's due for release on June 23 for the Games For Windows Live client.

GoGamer.com's newest online sale for their retail gaming web site is a nice one indeed with a number of popular PC game titles on the pricing chopping block. For this new 48 Hour Madness sale (which actually ends on Saturday at 3 am ET) they have put the Left 4 Dead Game of the Year Edition on sale for just $29.90, a 25 percent savings.

Fallout 3 also got a price cut for the sale. It's currently listed at $32.90, a 33 percent savings from its normal price. There are also some older games with even deeper price cuts such as the original Just Cause for just $1.90, Infernal for $2.90 and the Collector's Edition of Age of Conan for just $9.90.

In related news, the newly revamped Gamersgate web site has posted up a one-day sale of the acclaimed RPG title Mount and Blade for just $14.95, a 50 percent savings from its usual price.