Id Software’s forthcoming post apocalyptic shooter Rage has shifted publishers from EA to Bethesda Softworks, and is now being published directly under their ZeniMax stable-mates. When id was acquired by ZeniMax earlier this year Rage’s publishing rights originally stayed in the hands of EA, part of a legacy deal with the publisher. All that has changed with Bethesda taking over all the sales and marketing duties on the game and EA will not be involved in Rage going forward. No details on ...

It’s come to light that Bethesda Softworks, the current holders of the Fallout licence have lost part of their legal battle with the original Fallout franchises holders Interplay. A few months ago Bethesda Softworks attempted to sue Interplay, and get an injunction to prevent them selling the original PC Fallout titles and the Fallout Trilogy compilation. They claimed that the Fallout Trilogy name was confusing customers and that Interplay had broken a licensing agreement by failing to consult them on ...

Bethesda Softworks, the current owners of the rights to the Fallout licence is suing the previous publisher to hold the rights, Interplay, for trademark infringement. According to allegations in the complaint filed on September the 9th with the District Court of Maryland in the US, and originally picked up by Gamasutra, Bethesda  believes Interplay infringed its trademark when it distributed Fallout Trilogy, which packaged together the classic PC games Fallout, Fallout 2 and Fallout Tactics. Bethesda is ...

Bethesda announced a new Fallout title today in a press event in London. It's called Fallout: New Vegas and is being developed by Knights Of The Old Republic II, Neverwinter Nights II and forthcoming Alpha Protocol developer Obsidian. Bethesda has emphasised that this is not a sequel to Fallout 3 nor the reviled Fallout Tactics, rather it is another game set in the same universe. It will be interesting to see if this new Fallout game takes a similar direction as the original two Fallout games, ...

Just a quickie: the Fallout 3 G.E.C.K. (Garden of Eden Creation Kit) is now available for download here. It's a very modest 8.47MB download that allows owners of the PC version of Fallout 3 to 'expand the game in any way they wish'. We'll let you know shortly whether you'll have to quit your day job to learn it.

In the tradition of Fallout 3 acronyms, it's been called the G.E.C.K. (Garden of Eden Creation Kit), it's the official editor for Fallout 3 and it's being released on the PC some time in January. This comes less than a month after Bethesda frontman and Vice President of PR and Marketing, Pete Hines, claimed the editor and mods weren't on the radar. The editor will be offered as a free download to Fallout 3 PC owners - just like the TES construction kit for Oblivion - while paid downloadable content ...

Planet Fallout is in the process of mapping Fallout 3 using Google Maps. Currently, 65 users have contributed to the site that now has 418 markers detailing where quests, items, easter eggs etc can be found, with all the functionality provided by Google Maps, including a zoom in/out feature. Contributers are being rewarded with points according to the importance of their findings and a high-score table has been included on the site. Check it out here.

At the time of writing, there's a live interview on the subject of Fallout 3 with Pete Hines, vice president of PR and marketing at Bethesda Softworks, on Eurogamer. Conversation has covered a range of Fallout 3 topics, but most notable include those that involve forthcoming downloadable content, PC version patches and the current level cap: On taking characters beyond Level 20: Pete Hines: No plans to increase the level cap beyond 20. We think at that point you're plenty tough enough. On downloadable content: Pete Hines: We're ...

Seeing as the three main topics raging in the TPCG pod are a) What we're doing in Fallout 3, b) Whether we're going to blow Megaton (not Megatron, Andy) up tonight and c) How much we're loving Fallout 3, no-one seems to be getting much work done despite being on deadline. So I thought I'd make some constructive use of the subject and post my thoughts on Fallout 3 versus that other Bethesda biggee, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. Fallout 3 is better because: a) V.A.T.S. system ...

The indication from early Fallout 3 reviews bodes well for Bethesda's much-hyped big-budget title. The sprawling, open-world action RPG has been rated maximum scores on 1Up, Eurogamer, Gamespy and Official Xbox UK and scores in the nineties on Metacritic. Incidentally, PC Gamer rated Fallout 3 at 90%, 4% less than Far Cry 2 in its September issue, which would indicate a lesser game to the undiscerning eye… Look out for our Fallout 3 review in issue 14 of Total PC Gaming magazine, ...

The Fallout 3 Collector's edition has been revealed. Currently there's no UK price available for the PC version, but in the US, $69.99 will get you a copy of the game plus metal lunchbox (oh, to be five years old again) and the following:

Hi folks! My name’s Ben! This is my first blog ever, I hope you’ll enjoy it – and do come back again to read my next blog entry, it’s a doozie! (Whatever a doozie is. I hope it’s a good thing) Seriously, this is genuinely my debut blog. But I’m not gonna dwell on that, instead I’m going to vent bile and spleen over a subject that’s really hacking me off at the moment: casual gaming. Or, rather, some of the developers who are perpetuating it. Two gaming gurus in particular, Chris Taylor and Peter Molyneux, both spoke about opening their games out to a broader audience at GDC this month: