
Bethesda's Pete Hines fielded your questions about "Fallout 3" March expansion "The Pitt" yesterday, and we've got answers about gameplay length, new weapons, "a brand new kind of bleak," and more. Read More...
Posted 2/20/09 11:00 am EST by Stephen Totilo in fallout 3, Fallout 3: The Pitt, Top Entries

Bethesda's Pete Hines fielded your questions about "Fallout 3" March expansion "The Pitt" yesterday, and we've got answers about gameplay length, new weapons, "a brand new kind of bleak," and more. Read More...
Posted 2/13/09 2:00 pm EST by Tracey John in 2K Boston, bethesda game studios, bioshock, fallout 3, Ken Levine, New York Comicon 2009, Todd Howard, Todd Howard and Ken Levine Panel, Wii
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For our readers in Canada and the U.K. who are unable to watch our region-blocked videos (sorry!), we've transcribed part of the Vs. Mode Live panel that took place at New York Comic Con. Here's 2K Boston's Ken Levine and Bethesda's Todd Howard talking about the Wii. Read More...
Posted 2/11/09 6:45 pm EST by Stephen Totilo in bioshock, fallout 3, Ken Levine, Killzone 2, New York Comicon 2009, PS3, Todd Howard, Todd Howard and Ken Levine Panel, Video
Remember how so many reviewers said that "Killzone 2" didn't have much in its single-player campaign that was new? And remember how people couldn't agree if that was a problem or not? At last week's Comic-Con panel, N'Gai Croal and I asked 2K Boston's Ken Levine ("BioShock") and Bethesda Softworks' Todd Howard ("Fallout 3") all about that and the disputable value of "newness."
(This is the second of a daily series of posts showing clips from last week’s New York Comic-Con panel — click the jump if the two clips in today’s post don’t play back-to-back.) Read More...
Posted 2/10/09 8:00 pm EST by Stephen Totilo in bioshock, fallout 3, Ken Levine, New York Comicon 2009, Todd Howard, Todd Howard and Ken Levine Panel, Video
Without managing to spoil the ending of their games, the lead creators of "BioShock" and "Fallout 3," Ken Levine and Todd Howard, respectively, recently told me and Newsweek's N'Gai Croal what it's like to make game endings -- and what their recent games taught them about the topic. Plus: How YouTube has affected game-endings.
(This is the first of a daily series of posts showing clips from last week's New York Comic-Con panel -- click the jump if the two clips in today's post don't play back-to-back.) Read More...
Posted 2/6/09 4:00 pm EST by Patrick Klepek in bioshock, DLC, fallout 3, New York Comicon 2009

Our New York Comic Con panel, co-moderated by Newsweek's N'Gai Croal and featuring "Fallout 3" exec. producer Todd Howard and "BioShock" mastermind Ken Levine, is over, but if you weren't following our Twitter, here are some highlights, including word Howard is working on an iPhone game and Levine addressing his next project and multiplayer. Read More...
Posted 2/5/09 1:00 pm EST by Patrick Klepek in DLC, fallout 3, Fallout 3: Operation Anchorage, Fallout 3: The Pitt, PC, Xbox 360
Bethesda took us out of the capital wasteland with "Fallout 3: Operation Anchorage," but later this month, we're going back with "The Pitt," the second set of downloadable content for "Fallout 3," and having finished "Operation Anchorage," I'm hoping there's more story to this one. Read More...
Posted 2/4/09 12:30 pm EST by Patrick Klepek in fallout 3
The last place I expected to discuss "Fallout 3" was last Friday was in the audience of comedian Andy Richter and Upright Citizens Brigade member Matt Besser, but when Besser made a crack about video games, I managed the courage to shout back "hey, I write about video games for a living!'" Oops… Read More...
Posted 2/3/09 12:00 pm EST by Patrick Klepek in bioware, Dragon Age: Origins, fallout 3, Lunchtime Video, Video
No, I'm not talking about "Fallout 3" come to life, but an unexpected incident in my apartment yesterday lead to an hour spent fighting off an invasion of ants into my living room…and a discussion about "Dragon Age: Origins"?
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Posted 1/30/09 2:30 pm EST by Stephen Totilo in bioshock, fallout 3, New York Comicon 2009, VS. Mode


On February 6, game design legends Todd Howard (Bethesda, "Fallout 3") and Ken Levine (2K Boston, "BioShock") will join Newsweek's N'Gai Croal and MTV's Stephen Totilo for a New York Comic-Con panel we're calling Vs. Mode Live. Read More...
Posted 1/29/09 7:00 pm EST by Patrick Klepek in fallout 3, Fallout 4, PC, PS3, Xbox 360
It's hard not to think about the next "Fallout" game, and while Bethesda is quiet about "Fallout 4," they've said they intend to make more "Fallout" games, so we asked the company to name their biggest lessons learned from making "Fallout 3." Read More...