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Fallout 3 players complete a ton of fantastic achievements after stepping from Vault 101, the least of which includes saving (or dooming) humanity and working to revive (or conquer) the irradiated Capitol Wastelands. So, why limit those accomplishments to Earth? The newest downloadable content expansion, Mothership Zeta, takes former Vault dwellers toward the final frontier as they're abducted and beamed aboard a giant flying saucer high up in Earth's orbit. Players have a chance to fight a ship full of aliens using their advanced technology in an effort to figure out what they're up to and find a way to escape.

With the release today of Mothership Zeta, Bethesda Softworks has now sent out the last of their downloadable mini-expansions for Fallout 3. However if you are one of those folks who haven't yet bought the post-apocalypse RPG revival, you are in luck this week.

Direct2Drive has just announced that they have put their downloadable version of Fallout 3 on sale for just $24.95. That's a 50 percent cut from the game's normal price on Direct2Drive. The sale runs through August 9. Also we have a bit of an update on that Prototype $10 off sale that we mentioned Sunday. Direct2Drive has apparently decided to extend that offer until August 8. Finally Call of Juarez: Born in Blood has had its price cut by 30 percent from now until Sunday.

The first full week in August brings a downloadable expansion and a WWII strategy game to PC gamers:

Fallout 3: Mothership Zeta: In the fifth (and final?) downloadable expansion for Bethesda Softworks' post-apocalyptic RPG, you character finds a smashed spaceship and finds himself beams into orbit aboard an alien mothership. Look for new weapons and, yes, aliens to shoot with them.

Fallout 3: Mothership Zeta, the newest DLC expansion is August 3rd. In it, players are abducted by aliens and brought aboard the mothership. Players will have to uncover the aliens' secret plans and escape... preferably with armfuls of alien technology.

"A strange Alien signal is being broadcast throughout the Capital Wasteland, originating from a crashed UFO. Is it a distress call, or something far more sinister? That question is answered when you find yourself beamed aboard an enormous Alien spacecraft, with only one alternative – to fight your way to the bridge of the ship and secure your escape."

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This patch updates Fallout 3 to v1.7. It includes the achievements for the upcoming Mothership Zeta downloadable content expansion.
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Fallout 3 has had four mini-expansions available for download (the fifth, Mothership Zeta is due on August 3) but so far only one of them, Broken Steel, has raised the level cap for the hit RPG. The expansion raised the cap to 30 but can developer Bethesda Softworks raise it even more?

MTV Multiplayer put that question to Bethesda's Jeff Gardiner and he states, "I know from the outside this seems like a fairly simple proposition, but doing this could unbalance the game in a variety of ways." While he hints later on that they could change their minds at some point we don't expect this to happen anytime in the near future.

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]