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

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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.

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."

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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.

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]