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 ...

I recently got back from a trip in Finland to Frozenbyte Studios- my first as an official TPCG card carrying team member, (badges, we don't need no stinking badges!) and got to play Trine, a charming physics based 2D platform/ puzzle game that's showing a great deal of promise. You might remember Frozenbyte as the team behind the Shadow grounds games. Being an old school platform game fan, I was instantly drawn to this clever, challenging little  game-I only hope the ...

Leading Light, a design studio that produces concept art for a number of high-profile entertainment media companies, is working on two new projects from Lionhead Studios. One is called Justice, is definitely sci-fi and in the Bladerunner vein. The other is called Survivors, is being co-developed with Microsoft Games and seems like it has everyone's favourite theme, the post-apocalypse urban ruin. They're both completely unnanounced, even by name and might not even be for the PC. But the thought of Lionhead ...

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.

Included in this issue Previewed All the biggest PC games covered including; - Diablo III exclusive preview! - Colin McRae: Dirt 2 exclusive first look - Behind the scenes with Fuel Reviewed - Call Of Duty: World At War on test - Fallout 3 under the TPCG microscope - Action RPG Sacred 2 scores well - Amazing indy game World Of Goo - ATV extravaganza Pure gets tested - Lara’s latest -Tomb Raider: Underworld Bonus Content - Feature: We look back at 2008 - 24” monitor Super Test - ‘Wild’ Bill Stealey : the founder ...

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 ...

I'll leave it to Eurogamer to give you the details, but after playtesting the three formats it's pretty conclusive which is the best to play Fallout 3 on: "The real revelation is just how good the PC version is, and how well the game performs with relatively meagre hardware. Speaking as someone without day-to-day experience of PC gaming, Fallout 3 is a wonderful affirmation that computer gaming is still as strong a proposition as ever it was, despite the rising power and influence of the current generation of consoles." It's not like ...

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, ...

Simple: wait until it comes out on PC. With all the ‘secret’ midnight retail launches and stupid numbers of PS3 and 360 pre-orders going on in the last couple of weeks, if you hadn't pre-ordered prior to April, it seems that you're not likely to have got your copy today. You're not guaranteed to have one reserved even if you did pre-order. I can't even get my hands on a promo copy – and I'm a games journalist, they should be ...

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: