I was surfing around Gametrailers and found yet another cool morsel of Fallout goodness. This time it’s the Fallout Retrospective. I’m a huge fan of the retrospectives that Gametrailers does. It is fun to watch a sort of bird’s eye view of a game series as well as just catching up on the high points of a franchise. Admittedly I haven’t played every single game ever made, so it’s fun to go back and see what I’ve missed. Anyhow, we’ve embedded the video below, so check it out. (more…)

Hey, if you aren’t going to preload Fallout 3 on Steam, you should really start asking around about a midnight launches at your local Gamestop and Best Buy. Apparently there are going to be some 1,600 Gamestop’s opening at 10pm tonight, the 27th to let gamers have the game at midnight. How cool is that? Of course, I’m not sure if that includes your local store, so please call ahead first. (more…)

In case you didn’t know not only do we have Farcry 2, Fallout 3, and many other heavyweight games coming out this fall for the PC, we also have the Grand Theft Auto juggernaut coming as well. Grand Theft Auto 4 is coming out on December 2, 2008, so be watching for that. In the meantime check out the trailer below… (more…)

According to Shacknews Hellgate London’s servers are going to be shut down after January 31, 2009. The game has been fraught with issues since its original launch. The original studio, Flagship, dissolved after the game launched and the game has been both a critical and commercial failure. Perhaps if the game had launched with more polish, shine, and balance, it could have been a success, but this game, that was once hearalded as the spiritual successor to Diablo has turned into a real dud.

This week Bioware announced a brand new MMORPG set in the Star Wars universe. It will be called Star Wars: The Old Republic. As the title implies, it will be set in the pre-movie time period of the Old Republic, similar to Bioware’s previous title Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. This news is by no means surprising given the fact that Bioware, who was formerly very much a second-party Microsoft developer, was bought by EA in the last year and I think this game might be the reason. (more…)

Each week and every day we are getting a little bit closer to the craziest time of year for gamers – the holiday season. That means huge games dropping nearly every week. Fallout 3 is no exception. It looks fantastic and if you can’t wait, you can start preloading the game on everybody’s favorite digital download service – Steam. I’m stoked and I think it’s going to be a real huge game this holiday. It’s definately this year’s Bioshock. Excited? Go preload the game yourself!

While Warhammer Online was still in development, they had to cut four of the classes so that the game would be balanced and could ship on time. This is quite common in game development, but as always fans tend to get upset when they think they aren’t getting the ultimate game they always wanted. Luckily, Mythic Entertainment cares enough about their game to keep working until they get it just right. (more…)

In an interview at GamesIndustry.biz, Bungie’s Community Director indicated that Halo 3 Recon is going to be Bungie’s last Halo game and they will be moving on to other games outside the Halo universe. As a PC gamer I’m super stoked because if nothing else, I think this could mean that Bungie will be moving back to its PC roots possibly. (more…)

Ladies and gentlemen, it’s official. Warhammer Online is a hit. Not even a small it. It’s a pretty decently sized hit. I just came across the news that Warhammer Online has sold over 750,000 copies. That’s still a far cry from World of Warcraft’s 10 million gamer installed base, but for a game that’s only been out for a month, I’m seriously impressed. I don’t know if you remember when WoW first came out, Blizzard’s servers melted over and over again. Eventually they caught up, but the crush of demand clearly has shown the industry that they need to be prepared. Warhammer Online seem to be up to the challenge because I haven’t heard of any major outages thus far. (more…)

I’m not sure how a sequel can be a trilogy, but this is so bizarre I figured I’d share anyway. At Blizzcon this weekend, Blizzard announced that Starcraft 2’s campaign would be released as a trilogy. That is to say, it will be released via separate discs. What is absolutely appaling is that there is no sensible need for them to do this. Unless each race has like a 20 mission campaign, I just don’t see how they will do this without it being completely terrible for the consumer.

If you played previous Starcraft or Warcraft games you’d know that in Starcraft they gave you a Human, Zerg, and Protoss campaign. In Warcraft 3 you had a tutorial, Human, Undead, Orc, and Night Elf campaign. In Starcraft 2 you’ll have a Human, Zerg, and Protoss campaign sound familiar? What a joke. This sounds like Activision’s Guitar Hero business model applied to Starcraft and I think it sucks. (more…)