Patches galore

After a bit of whinging from their respective communities (not without warrant mind you), two of the biggest games of the last few months get some patch news worth talking about.

First up, Blues News are carrying news of an announcement on the Bethesda Forum that the first proper patch for Fallout 3 (cunningly carrying the moniker v1.1) is now available via auto-update on Games for Windows: Live, Xbox Live & the Playstation Network.

UPDATE – Manual patches are now available at your favourite download repository, but there’s still no word on how long until the patch hits Steam.

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CNS List-o-tron-o-matic – Our Best Of 2008

Because we’re having a slow news time, what with there being a typical post-christmas lull, a global recession and nothing but a load of announcements & promises in the form of press releases (coupled with the fact we forgot to do it in 2008), here’s the CNS Best of 2008 … Read More…

Fallout 3 Garden of Eden Creation Kit released

The promised Fallout 3 Editing tools, or the Garden of Eden Creation Kit if you want to keep it canon, have been released by Bethesda , along with the now customary Wiki (presumably to take all the fun out of discovering how easy it is to break the game irreparably!).

More details have also been released of the first DLC pack – Operation Anchorage – via an interview on IGN with Beth’s Jeff Gardiner.

Snippet after the coffee break…
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Fallout 3 Editor for Windows confirmed alongside DLC.

After much speculation about whether Fallout 3 would recieve editing tools following Oblivions ‘someone made nude skins therefore the games AO’ controversy, Bethesda have announced that the full modding suite, cleverly named the G.E.C.K., will be available for the Windows version of the game sometime in December.

DLC for both the Xbox360 & GfW versions of the game will follow, with the first pack arriving in January and further packs coming in February & March thereafter, prices (if any) to be confirmed.

I’ll let the press release do the talking after the jump…… Read More…

Review: Fallout 3

War. War never changes.

It’s with these ominous words that Fallout 3 begins, and begins it does – with you being born into the post apocalyptic world.

As openings to games go, you’d be hard pressed to find a more unique one than that. The game then fast forwards a year to your first steps, then a few more years to your 10th Birthday, a couple more to you taking your G.O.A.T exam and then finally to the start of the game proper.

Many of the traditional Fallout fans were up in arms when Bethseda announced they had bought the … Read More…

Fallout 3 Review

Barry Hodgson joins the vault dwellers in Vault 101.… Read More…

Fallout 3 360 & PC to feature Exclusive Downloadable Content

At Microsoft’s E3 Press Conference this evening, Todd Howard, the executive producer of Fallout 3 revealed that the PC and 360 versions of Fallout 3 will have exclusive downloadable content after launch,

Hopefully it won’t be Horse Armour.

A new Fallout 3 trailer will be on the Marketplace later this evening. … Read More…