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Bethesda Softworks' hit RPG Fallout 3 will be a year old in October and now the developer/publisher has revealed that their previously announced Game of the Year edition of the game will ship to stores for the PC on October 13.

The Game of the Year edition will include the original game plus all five of the game's mini-expansions (Operation Anchorage, The Pitt, Broken Steel, Point Lookout and Mothership Zeta) that were released earlier this year via download from the Games or Windows Live Marketplace. If you haven't bought Fallout 3 yet this is the perfect opportunity to get all of Bethesda's official expansion on one disk. The PC version for the Game of the Year edition is priced at $49.99.

The rumors about more Fallout 3 downloadable expansions are indeed true. Bethesda Softworks has just announced via an email press release that two more expansions will be released later this year. One (which was previously revealed in a retail web posting) is titled Point Lookout, which will take place in a large swamp area with new quests. It will be released via download in late June.

The second downloadable expansion is titled Mothership Zeta and is all about aliens landing in Fallout's post-apocalyptic world. The press release states that players will experience "an alien abduction first hand and find out if you're tough enough to survive." Ouch. That expansion is due out in late July. Both Point Lookout and Mothership Zeta will cost 800 Microsoft points for PC owners to download

In addition Bethesda has confirmed rumors that they will release the first four DLC expansions for Fallout 3 as two retail products on disk. The first, which will contain The Pitt and Operation: Anchorage, will be released on May 26 (next week) while the second, with Broken Steel and Point Lookout), will be released in August. Finally Bethesda will release a Fallout 3 Game of the Year edition in October, containing the original game and all five DLC expansions, for $49.99.

[via email press release]