Kotaku: Fallout 3

Fallout 3's Tunnel Snakes Rule, and So Does This Amazing Classic Remix

Kirk Hamilton — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 20:45:00 EST

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Who could forget the Tunnel Snakes, the dorkiest, least menacing group of post-apocalyptic greaser wanna-be gangsters to ever grace a role-playing game? I sure couldn't. And who could forget this classic video, which though it's a few years old, still holds up remarkably well? More »

Concept Artist Behind Fallout 3, Skyrim Has Died

Kate Cox — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:30:00 EST

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I played something like 130 hours of Fallout 3. I adored many things about it — and, admittedly, hated a few others — but my absolute favorite part was exploring the world. The entire history of this never-quite-was version of Washington, DC could be read in its architecture, its artifacts, and its people. The game turned the city where I actually live into a wrecked, raygun-gothic husk of itself... and I loved it. More »

Decorating Your Home in Early Video Game Crap

Mike Fahey — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 11:20:00 EDT

In today's well-designed edition of Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter Monsieur.Froid wonders if anyone else has a home full of useless video game crap, or if it's just him. More »

Cheer Up Poland, Fallout Is Just Make-Believe

Luke Plunkett — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 06:30:00 EDT

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Poland Comes First, a political party in [GUESS] has made an advertisement that you may recognise. Especially if you like Fallout. More »

Fallout: The Board Game Lets you Play Monopoly After the Apocalypse

Luke Plunkett — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 05:30:00 EDT

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This custom version of Monopoly, crafted by PinkAxolotl, really has to be seen to be believed. It's not like it's just a regular board with a few Fallout references made here and there. It's as Fallout-themed as it could possibly hope for. More »

Are Foreign Games Losing Their Stigma in Japan?

Brian Ashcraft — Thu, 12 May 2011 08:00:00 EDT

For decades, the term "youge" (洋ゲー) or "Western game" was pejorative. In Japanese, "you" (洋) is used to denote Western things, whether that be "Western music" (洋楽) or "Western clothes" (洋服). These words are not pejorative—not like youge has been. More »

Fallout-Themed Geiger Counter Monitors Japan's Transpacific Radiation

Owen Good — Wed, 11 May 2011 19:30:00 EDT

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A Seattle-area man who lived in Europe during the Chernobyl disaster, now wary of radiation from Japan's Fukushima nuclear accidents traversing the Pacific, built that, the a Fallout-themed case for a Geiger counter that reports its findings automatically via Twitter. More »

Exploring the Most Beautiful Video Game Worlds

Mike Fahey — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 11:20:00 EDT

In today's Speak-Up on Kotaku, commenter Monsieur.Froid urges us to sit back, relax, and get lost in the wondrous landscapes of the most gorgeous virtual worlds gaming has to offer. More »

Fukushima Nuclear Plant Recreated In Fallout 3

Brian Ashcraft — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 04:00:00 EDT

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Over on a Fallout 3 mod and community site are images of the Fukushima nuclear plant, recreated by a 25-year-old via a Fallout 3 mod for PCs. More »

Are You There God? It's-a Me, Mario

Joshua Wise — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 14:30:00 EST

Few video games deal with the touchy subject of religion seriously. When they do, they often deal with the more fantastical outlying bits of different faith systems, like last year's Dante's Inferno, or the upcoming El Shaddai: Rise of the Metatron. Rarely do we see games that hunker down and deal with real questions of faith and the questions that surround faith. More »

It's Better than a Mirelurk Cake Bake Sale

Owen Good — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 15:00:00 EST

Good point, but if you just go ahead and donate the scrap metal, you get +10 good karma. Trolled office flyer for a Seattle-area school's fundraiser, seen via Reddit. More »

Vault Bikinis Offer Little Protection Against Fallout Mini-nukes

Justin Page — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 19:30:00 EST

Charlotte's custom Fallout 3 character Jinx Jones wiped Megaton straight off the Wasteland map! Also, check out her Fallout: New Vegas art piece HERE. More »

Hey, This Fallout Movie Isn't Too Bad!

Luke Plunkett — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 06:00:00 EST

When the trailer for a fan movie about Fallout was released a few weeks back, I was...sceptical. Which was stupid, because the movie is now out, and it's actually pretty damn good. More »

The Fallout Conversation System Does Not Work In Real Life

Mike Fahey — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 11:00:00 EST

When you try to apply the logic and mechanics of the conversation system from Bethesda's Fallout series to real life relationships it can only end in tears - or dead girlfriends. More »

Clean Clothes Are Important, Even After The Apocalypse

Brian Ashcraft — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 08:30:00 EST

Fallout Guy gets a job at a Rhode Island dry cleaner. As seen on Super Power Bros. Thanks Patrick! More »

Are Games Giving Us Too Much Freedom?

Mike Fahey — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 11:20:00 EST

Games like Red Dead Redemption and Fallout: New Vegas give players the freedom to explore unfamiliar worlds to their hearts' content, but is it too much freedom? Commenter GeneralissimoFurioso explores the price of free-roaming in today's Speak-Up on Kotaku. More »

Baby It's Cold Outside (So Wear A Fallout Helmet)

Luke Plunkett — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 07:30:00 EST

If you're going to try and survive a post-apocalyptic wasteland, you may as well do it in style. More »

Fallout 3 Tribute Available on Rock Band Store

Owen Good — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 17:00:00 EST

"Vault 101," the Fallout 3 ballad by nerd rockers Kirby Krackle, is now available on the Rock Band Store. The download is $1 or 80 Microsoft Points. You can see it performed in-game on the jump. More »

Drinking And Gaming Can Kill A Man's Best Friendship

Mike Fahey — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 17:20:00 EST

My pre-holiday vacation is over, and our daily Speak-Up on Kotaku returns! Today commenter Gaston explores the very real dangers of drinking and gaming. More »

The Video Game Posters For That Tiny Cinema You Never Go To

Luke Plunkett — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 11:20:00 EST

Get a load of these posters. They're game posters done up to look like movie posters, but not the boring kind, the kind you see for a quaint little art house cinema that only shows a movie once. More »

What The Hell Does The Canadian Army Want With $25,000 Worth Of Video Games?

Owen Good — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 18:20:00 EST

A Canadian military garrison has a rush order out for 500 video games, a requisition that a headquarters spokeswoman admitted is "strange." More »

I Tried To Think Of The Most Harmless Thing...

Luke Plunkett — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 06:30:00 EST

...something that I loved from my childhood, something that would never ever possibly destroy us. Vault Boy. By Renée Chio, as seen on Gamefreaks. More »

Fallout Wiki Editors Have A Lot Of Time On Their Hands — And Use It

Owen Good — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 12:00:00 EDT

Fallout: New Vegas released 18 days ago. That's 432 hours. Since then, more than 475,000 hours have been spent reading and editing the Fallout: New Vegas wiki. That's 58 years. More »

The Science Of Fallout

Luke Plunkett — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 03:30:00 EDT

Fallout 3 (and New Vegas) are set in a bleak, post-apocalyptic world, where mankind lies despondent after a devastating atomic holocaust. Fantasy it may be, but it's based on real science; question is, just how real is it? More »

Japan's Western-Game Loving Porn Star Pops Up At TGS

Brian Ashcraft — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 04:00:00 EDT

Noa Torigoe, star of adult films like Max Orgasm and Ultimate Gold, really loves video games. I guess you could call her "hardcore"? But she doesn't just love Japanese video games, she loves Western video games. More »

Hump A Robot In New Vegas

Owen Good — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 20:30:00 EDT

Ho'in ain't new to Fallout: New Vegas. Hell, boffing Nova in Moriarity's upstairs was one of the first things I did in Fallout 3. The ESRB certificate for the sequel shows Bethesda's upping the ante with hot-n-heavy man-on-machine action. More »

Props To This Fallout 3 Prop

Owen Good — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 22:30:00 EDT

A3-21 Plasma Rifle from Fallout 3, assembled by Ryan Palser and painted by his wife, Dena. Loads more images on his Flickr account. Seen via Boing Boing. More »

Hey — Why Aren't There Any Ladders In Fallout?

Owen Good — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 18:30:00 EDT

Answer: "We're game development pussies," Bethesda's Todd Howard said at a QuakeCon panel on Friday. No really, the engine in Fallout and Elder Scrolls runs into AI problems if ladders are introduced, and the developer just works around them. More »

The Game That Wasn’t There

Joel Haddock — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 10:40:00 EDT

Joel Haddock is not happy with modern role-playing games made in the West. Great things are missing, he argues, in a smart critique of today's Fallouts and Dragon Ages that we are proud to re-print here. More »

Taking The Dog To The V.A.T.S.

Mike Fahey — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 18:00:00 EDT

An oldie but goodie, found on Love PWND's Flickr stream. More »

Lay Down Your Guns

Fraser Allison — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:20:00 EDT

Writer Fraser Allison thinks a few games could be improved if they contained a little less shooting. We're reprinting the case here. Read on and see if you agree. More »

The Ladies Fashion Of Fallout 3

Luke Plunkett — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 05:30:00 EDT

Fashion based on Fallout 3? May sound a little dirty - and it is - but some people like it dirty. More »

Fallout 3 Action Figure Emerges From The Vault

Luke Plunkett — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 08:00:00 EDT

There still aren't any official Fallout figures. Shame. There are custom figures, though, like this one, which is pretty great. More »

These Fallout Drugs Pre-Date The Apocalypse

Luke Plunkett — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 02:00:00 EDT

Reader Pablo made this as a gift to the guys at Fallout developers Bethesda. Awesome job, Pablo! More »

My Own Private Architecture

L.B. — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 11:00:00 EDT

In games there are three basic ways we experience architecture: as game design, as a personalized space, or through a hybrid of the two. More »

You Say Apocalypse, I Say Retro Chic

G. Christopher Williams — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 10:40:00 EDT

Much like telling an erotic story within a Victorian backdrop seems ever so sexy, human depravity juxtaposed against a seemingly golden age of good, moral values is darkly comic and that much more disturbing. More »

Video Games, I've Let You Down

Leigh Alexander — Wed, 26 May 2010 16:00:00 EDT

It's hard to explain your favorite games to people who don't play them, isn't it? Well, if you think that's tough, wait ‘til you hear about the time I played Fallout 3 with my parents. More »

As Bad as a Gun Made of Paper Could Ever Be

Owen Good — Tue, 25 May 2010 21:30:00 EDT

Look closely, there's not a scrap of metal in this papercraft construction of Fallout 3's laser pistol. Artist Leo Firebrand used paper (and papier-mâché, for the grip) to make something that looks 100 percent capable of incinerating mole rats. More »

The Greatest PC Games Of All Time (According To 2010)

Luke Plunkett — Fri, 14 May 2010 04:30:00 EDT

Readers of PC Gamer, one of the last bastions of the specialist press for the platform, have been voting on what they think are the best 100 PC games of all time. And the results are in! More »

Fallout, Street Fighter Join Games On Demand

Luke Plunkett — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 03:30:00 EST

Microsoft added two more titles to its range of Games on Demand titles today, with the release of Fallout 3 and Street Fighter IV onto the Xbox 360's digital shopfront. More »