The new OXM features a cover story for Fallout 3. Bethesda Blog notes:

"The April issue of OXM is now making its way to subscribers in the US as we speak. The cover story features a number of new areas and also features a host of new screens from different parts of the game, including new areas, new creatures/NPCs, weapons, etc. We don't want to give away too much info on what's in there, except to say it has the best ending line of any Fallout 3 preview thus far, thanks to a quote from Emil."
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From Worthplaying:
"Yesterday, we revealed the bottom half of the top 20, and today we announce what the WP staff considers to be the 10 most anticipated games for the upcoming year. Cue the drumroll, and head on over to our Most Anticipated Games of 2008 section for the final results"
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Janco Partners analyst Mike Hickey picks what he believes will be the biggest sellers of 2008.
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Jan 10, 2008 It's the first piece of Fallout 3 news in 2008 - new concept art from the RPG has been released by ... » Read More

OXM writes, "Bethesda has updated its Fallout 3 site with a developer diary from its lead designer."

"Although lead designer, Emil Pagliarulo, doesn't talk about actual development such as stories of office pranks, multiplayer Two Worlds at lunchtime or late nights of work fuelled by crisps and Red Bull, he does talk a lot about the storyline."

"He explains about the Brotherhood Of Steel, who they are and how they're relevant to the Fallout 3 universe. Check out the developer diary for the full breakdown and nice, juicy bits of concept art."
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From the Bethesda Blog:

"We're hiring for testers in our Quality Assurance department! We tend to favor candidates with programming experience but most importantly, we want people who are fans of our games. Why would you want to work in our QA dept? I'll give you two reasons. 1. We use our QA testers as interns throughout the year. These interns are typically among our top testers, and they sit with the development team, attend meetings, and work on our games directly. So if you kick major ass as a tester here, there is a good chance you'll be a candidate for one of those intern slots.

2. When we have a job opening on the development team, we look internally first to fill them, so our QA dept gets an inside advantage."
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From Official Bethesda Blog:
"Week after week, folks at the office were picking up the latest "AAA" titles to play, and as a result, I'm guessing most everyone now has a pile of games to play. Luckily, most of the big releases are now out, so we can put away our wallets and focus on the games we've got.

Here's what you'll see our team playing over the weekend."
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From the Fallout blog:

"After plowing through more entries than we ever thought possible, we whittled the list of over 17,000 entries down to the 12 finalists and picked a winner for the Fallout 10th Anniversary Contest. The entry that came out on top was 'Grim Reaper's Sprint,' which restores all your action points whenever you kill an opponent. Congratulations to Marc-André Deslongchamps from Montreal for his winning entry. He selected the PC Grand Prize and takes home a boatload of goodies in addition to getting his Perk in Fallout 3. We'll have a little interview up with Marc-André today or tomorrow."

See the first link at the Alternative Sources below for the full list of Perks along with their descriptions.
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Nov 19, 2007 "There will be somewhere between 9 to 12 different endings to Fallout 3 based on what youve done in the game,” said Pete Hines, VP of Public Relations and Marketing for Bethesda Softworks, in a recent interview with CVG. Unlike Bethesdas last huge RPG, Oblivion, your decisions in Fallout 3s post-apocalyptic wasteland will close off some options while opening others. “So its something that is inherently a diverging path. It may be some of the same things but doing them ... » Read More

Bethesda has said it'll likely look at producing downloadable content for its forthcoming post-nuclear RPG Fallout 3 once the game is content-complete.

"How much of it or what we would do if anything is still up in the air", the studio's Pete Hines told CVG when asked whether download content is something planned for, and would fit with, Fallout 3.
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Nov 5, 2007 A Bethesda employee currently designing levels for the developer's forthcoming RPG Fallout 3 has been playing around with Portal map creation. Daryl Brigner has created a level for Valve's first-person puzzle-'em-up called Ren_Test2. We've not zapped holes in the map ourselves as yet, but judging by comments that have been spouted it's a clever design but will test your Portal powers to the limit. Ren_Test2 can be downloaded here. Valve's Portal forms part of the developer's ... » Read More

Bethsoft has updated the official Fallout site with a new team diary by Istvan Pely, lead artist for Fallout 3, who walks gamers through the process of creating the Pip-Boy 3000 along with some concept art pieces. In addition, the Fallout site is now also available in French, Italian, German, and Spanish, including content like today's team diary.
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Matt Grandstaff, Bethesda Community Manager, writes on the Fallout forums that it is nice when you get a demo, but as a gamer, he don't always expects one:

"One thing to consider about demos though. For certain kinds of games, I'd say its not as easy to just break off a piece, and say, here's the demo. Sure you can take a game of Madden, let someone choose between two teams, and then make it one quarter. Or as of yesterday, just release a few songs for Guitar Hero III.

For a game like Fallout (or Oblivion), there's a lot of details that have to go into it since the game plays as a sandbox... where do you cut the user off. You might bring up that we have a playable demo that we've shown at events, but from the previews you read, you'll notice that the G.O.A.T exam is never taken, we never decided to save Megaton instead of blowing it up, and so on. Part of the reason for this is that for the purpose of showing the game, they didn't need to flesh out those details.

If we were doing a demo, there'd be a lot of time spent on deciding where a user could go, what quests to include, etc. For Fallout 3, we'd rather commit the time that can be used for delivering a demo into spending more time working on the final product."
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10 years ago the original Fallout was released and forever changed role-playing games. Now is your chance to be a part of Fallout history. Bethesda Softworks gives the fans a chance to design one of the perks for Fallout 3:

"No, we aren't going to tell you about any of the perks that are already in Fallout 3. First, that would spoil it, and second, we don't want to color your ideas with anything we are, or aren't doing. It's a clean slate for you. Be creative.

Think of something in the spirit of Fallout. What would you really want your character to be able to do in the game? Don't worry about any stat requirements or the level you would get it at. Just design a cool perk and we'll fit it in where it could go."
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Latest issue of P3Zine has a 6 page preview/interview with emphasis on how the user-built maps work on the PS3. Also has Stranglehold, Warhawk, Fracture and Fallout 3.
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Aug 24, 2007 It's time to cast an eye once again over Bethesda's RPG sequel Fallout 3 as new screenshots emerge from the post-nuclear wasteland. The game proper, as most things do, begins with a birth: your birth, deep within the loving steel confines of Vault 101. It's at this point that your masked father runs a DNA test on you, letting you choose your basic character details such as race and sex, after which your father will magically remove his mask to show that he shares the same genetic ... » Read More

Aug 16, 2007 It's no great secret that Bethesda was aiming to appeal to an adult audience with its post-apocalyptic RPG game Fallout, but it's treading carefully to avoid certain pitfalls when it comes to including adult material in Fallout 3 - it doesn't want the game to become puerile. "There are some people who say that making an 18-rated game, and especially making a Fallout one, should be about sleeping with the hooker, then waking up with the venereal disease. A lot of that stuff ... » Read More

Interplay has posted an exponential rise in revenues on the sale of the Fallout IP to Bethesda. Now the firm says it's ready to secure funding for "Fallout Online." Interplay CEO Herve Caen said in a statement, "I am pleased with the progress the company has made, particularly with our debt load, which has improved from $59 million in December 2001 to less than $3 million today. "With that difficult period behind us, we are focused on securing funding for development of a Massively ... » Read More

"Just how awesome will Fallout 3 be? Super awesome, or super mega awesome?

I've heard touching the Fallout 3 box will make the paralyzed walk. Will it also cure my herpes?

When will Fallout 4 be out?"

Ask these, and any other questions your heart desires on Bethesda's blog. The developers will be posting their answers soon.
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With Fallout's rabid fanbase, it isn't a surprise that chief among the requests voiced to Bethesda about the upcoming Fallout 3 was: "do not screw it up." And it'll sound familiar to anyone who chanced upon the official forum site. But fans shouldn't fret. From day one, as executive producer Todd Howard reveals, Bethesda has been working from the original Fallout design - using the Fallout Vision Statement, created when the first game was just a twinkle in an old mans ... » Read More