Speaking to VG247 at Games Convention, Bethesda's Peter Hines has indicated that you may not just be seeing one more Fallout from the publisher: you should be thinking along the lines of EA and FIFA.
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Fallout 3 was confirmed this morning to be releasing in Japan on December 4.
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Bethesda's Peter Hines has refused to confirm differences made to the Australian build of Fallout 3, saying talk of cuts made to the game to get it passed the OFLC was "presumptuous."
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VG247: Bethesda communications boss Peter Hines has shrugged off post-E3 criticism of Fallout 3, saying he's not willing to judge negative previews based on 30 minutes play at the event.
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Fallout 3 will be playable for the general public for the first time at the upcoming PAX.

This event keeps getting bigger and looks to become possibly the premium gamng event of the year, with 50,000 people expected to attend. The six gaming units Bethesda have dedicated for Fallout 3 might get quite a workout. And if that's not enough, Bethesda plans to hand out Vault Dweller Survival Guides to everyone that stops by the booth.
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Bethesda Softworks, a ZeniMax Media company, announced today that its highly anticipated title, Fallout 3, will be available on store shelves and online in North America on October 28, 2008 and in Europe on October 31, 2008. Developed at Bethesda Game Studios – creators of the 2006 Game of the Year, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion – Fallout 3 is slated for release on the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PLAYSTATION 3 computer entertainment system, and Games for Windows.
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Check out this new walkthrough which was aired on Bravo's TV show Playrs. It shows TheGamersCafe some new areas of the game but other than that it's pretty much old news, but still fun to watch. Not only is there a new walkthrough but people took pictures of the game at the Zenimax Asia expo which owns Bethesda. More after the jump...
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IGN writes: "And so, the epic saga comes to a close - Fallout 3's OFLC report has been made available to IGN AU; the contents outline the reasons behind the reassessment of Bethesda's post-nuclear RPG in Australia by the classification board.

The biggest points to take away with you are that the essential nature of drug use in the game has not been altered dramatically:

'The drugs depicted are fictional; drugs are depicted as stylised icons on a menu with the drug use itself not depicted. Whilst navigating a post-apocalyptic futuristic landscape, players can invoke the use of a variety of "chems" listed by fictitious names which include "Buff", "Rad-X", "Psycho" and "Ultrajet". Within the context of the game's narrative, the player may choose to make use of these "chems" to alter the physiological characteristics of their character in the game.'"
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GamerChip brings you the news you have been waiting for: RedAnt, the Australian distributor for Fallout 3, has confirmed through the EB Games website that the game will be released on October 17th. Their enthusiasm is infectious as you can read for yourself with all of the sites information included in the article.
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Ripten writes:

"The Australian government has reversed a ban on the forthcoming Fallout 3 due to gamer objections.

The Office of Film and Literature Classification originally had banned Fallout 3 due to its in-game drug use, rendering the game illegal for sale in Australia."
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XboxOZ360 reports:

Today the OFLC has revealed that Fallout 3 has been reclassified
for Australian standards to the MA15+ rating.

It is rated MA15 for: "Strong Violence, Drug Use, and Coarse Language"

Lets hope the alterations to the game are only just for the renaming of official drugs to fictional ones, and nothing more.

Rumor is that even with the earlier banning of the Fallout 3, we might still be recieveing the game around the same time it launches World Wide, so lets hope that us Aussies dont fall too far behind the rest of the gaming community!

What does this mean for us? It means we have faith in gaming developers that they will try and bring the games we are eagerly waiting for even if our rating system is flawed. It means that large developers are also pushing for a R18+ rating in Australia, and that can only be a good thing...
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Speaking to VideoGamer.com at a recent roundtable interview in London, Bethesda Softworks vice president Pete Hines has confidently declared that Fallout 3 is a better game than the highly praised The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion.

Asked directly if he felt the review scores for Fallout 3 will beat those of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Hines wasn't to be drawn on Fallout 3's review scores, but did express his confidence in the game.

"I don't have any doubts that on the whole, and I think this is a belief universally shared on the team that Fallout is a better game," said Hines. "But we're also not oblivious to the fact that we have a lot of extra baggage that we're carrying, being the guys picking up this franchise, that are re-imagining this series from 10 years ago, and there's something that comes along with that. We're very well aware of what we're up against."

He added: "I have no doubts in my mind that, at its core and for everything that it provides that Fallout is a better game than Oblivion was. For sure."
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Speaking to VideoGamer.com at a recent roundtable interview in London, Bethesda Softworks vice president Pete Hines was unable to confirm if its upcoming post apocalyptic RPG Fallout 3 would feature PS3 Trophy support.

"I don't know. I can't tell you for sure whether or not we'll have them or not," said Hines.

It's a different story regarding Xbox 360 Achievements though, with Hines confirming that they are "mostly complete".

"... we still like to mess with that stuff sometimes in late stages, just in terms of 'yeah it's taking a little too long to get this one', which is why we didn't want anybody to look at them, because I wouldn't want you guys putting something out that we then changed and is completely different," said Hines. "Yeah, they're largely in there and there's some really good ones in there... some that I rather enjoy."
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Many Aussies were devastated by last month's news that Fallout 3 had been refused classification (effectively banning it from release). There have been several casualties of Australia's archaic videogame ratings system over the years but few have been as highly anticipated as Fallout 3 (picked as IGN's Game of Show at this year's E3). Speaking to retail today we were told that Fallout 3 will be released mid-October with its references to specific drugs altered.

The reason Fallout 3 was banned was because it contained references to real drugs like morphine. It is likely that all Bethesda has had to do is rename the drugs as fictional substances to allow it to be successfully classified for sale.
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Hines on picking a lead dev machine - and Fallout 4

Bethesda's Peter Hines has explained why the software giants behind Oblivion and the forthcoming Fallout 3 use the Xbox 360, rather than PC or PlayStation as their main development platform.

Hines, who was in London to show off the mighty fine looking Fallout 3, told TechRadar that the Xbox 360 was very much Bethesda's lead machine on the title.
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According to EB and Game representatives, Australia will be receiving Fallout 3, albeit in a modified format. The new, friendlier version, will have the drug use removed that saw the game banned initially. Both EB and Game are currently taking pre-orders for the title. One representative from Game, contacted this Thursday night,said that he had read internal communications only an hour before that Fallout 3 would definitely be available this year.
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Bethesda comms boss Peter Hines has told VG247 that the next major milestone for Fallout 3 is to "get everything done."
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Speaking to VG247, Bethesda's Peter Hines has said that people may have been surprised by the level of violence in the Fallout 3 E3 demo simply because little of the RPG has been shown so far.
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IGN writes:
"The criteria we use to pick our E3 favorites are simple. With the exception of Best Non-Playable Presentation and Special Achievement in Innovative Design, all "Best of E3" nominees had to be playable on the show floor or at one of its related events. In other words, the game had to be manipulated in real-time and, additionally, could not yet be available for consumer purchase. Because these games are works in progress and not yet complete, winners are chosen based on the quality of the software at this stage, as well as its ultimate potential heading towards its future release. All editors that attended IGN were allowed to vote, and because our teams are split into platform teams, we also compiled system-specific lists in addition to our overall awards."
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Speaking to VG247 today, Bethesda's Peter Hines has confirmed that anticipated RPG Fallout 3 will be hitting Games Convention with a bang next month.
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