On this week’s GameTrailers TV on SPIKE, you’ll have a chance to get a new look at Fallout: New Vegas — including how the Brotherhood of Steel play into the equation.
The show airs at 12:30 AM EST Friday night (check your local listings for more details) after MANswers. So actually, you’ll be watching the show Saturday morning at 12:30 AM.
Plenty of cool stuff I’ve found recently for Fallout 3. Read on…
On Twitter, I came across a link to a blog called The Adventures of Tobasco da Gama. In this post, our hero (we’ll call him the Lone Wanderer), discusses his plan to tour DC in a Vault Suit. A man of his word, check out the pics on Flickr.
Recently the 2009 MIXX awards were announced — celebrating creativity in interactive advertising. Among the award winners, Fallout 3 was awarded a Gold Award for Product Launch. Special thanks to AKQA (who also won an award for McDonalds and Flip Video) and everyone else that worked on the campaign.
At Planet Xbox 360, there’s a new list of the Top 10 Gaming Moments to Experience Before You Die. It’s a good list that points out how many great titles there have been this generation. Click here to find out what Fallout 3 moment made the list.
Ready to take on some Fallout trivia? The Escapist has two quizzes — in Heroic and Legendary flavors.
At Kotaku, Todd Howard was featured in a recent piece titled, “Is Single-Player Gaming In Danger Of Extinction?” — written by Michael McWhertor. Here’s a snippet from Todd:
“[Multiplayer is] the most requested feature we get,” says Todd Howard, executive producer of The Elder Scrolls series and Fallout 3 at Bethesda Softworks, so far resistant to the trend this generation. “So we do consider it every time… and every time it loses, but I suppose you never know.”
Moving on, I caught this pic from EPICponyz that you might recognize from here..:)
To conclude this wrapup, here’s three videos to check out from YouTube. This one caught my eye because of the great work done on creating the BoS armor. Also be sure to check out this Fallout 3 Medley, and yet another fantastic fan video from Drakortha.
This morning Istvan and Todd were raving about this Brotherhood of Steel costume – showcased by Cosplay.com member Facing Costumes. Definitely one of the coolest BoS costumes we’ve seen yet — heck, it’s even got a mini-gun.
Check out more images of the costume here. And if you’ve got a costume you’ve worked on, email us at bethblog@bethsoft.com to share it.
Looking to add some Fallout 3 decor to your gaming room? Gamer Graffix has new skins and wall graphics to make the room more “Game Shui.”
If you’ve got an Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3, they’ve got Brotherhood of Steel skins for your console. If you’re looking for something to put on your wall, they’ve got a Wall Graffix collection featuring the Brotherhood of Steel, Vault Boy, and a Fallout 3 logo. If you want to go all out, they even have a massive 33 x 60 Brotherhood of Steel Wall Graffix that’s 5-feet tall (shown above)
For more details on these, head to Gamer Graffix.
Spotted this video at G4, reminded me of April Fool’s hijinx. Don’t try this at home…or work….or anywhere else.
Meanwhile, over at Ctrl+Alt+Del, they’ve got a new comic in Tribute of The Pitt. Check it out below.
Finally, what do you get when you mix up Fallout and Watchmen? Head here to find out.
One of our forum moderators, Rohugh, brought to my attention an interesting thread for all of you that get into cosplay or dressing up for Halloween. BGS forum member MightyJohn has begun work on a Brotherhood of Steel costume for Halloween this year.
If you click on the links in the thread, you’ll see he’s only posted shots of the helmet, which looks amazing. Should be interesting to see what he’s got put together come October.
If you missed it, here’s a look at a BoS costume from Halloween last year.
Wow! BGS community member Norumu linked me to some pretty amazing pics of the Power Armor he created for Halloween this year. To create the costume, he referenced various photos of the Brotherhood of Steel statues that we made.
Head here to see more.
Here’s a load of new coverage for you to read up on before the release of Fallout 3 (T-minus 4 days!!!).
Russ Frushtick from UGO put up a new blog post covering the delivery of a Brotherhood of Steel statue arriving at their office. Having helped pack/unpack one of these, I can tell you, it’s quite the production.
New interviews with Emil can be found at both Gaming Nexus and GameSpy. Here’s a snippet of the latter, entitled The Art of Writing:
GameSpy: How much effort went into creating the main storyline versus encounters and characters found off the beaten path?
Emil Pagliarulo: I’d say it was a pretty equal division. I laid out the miscellaneous quests and the main quest at pretty much the same time. You know, we wanted to get everything on the table as soon as possible, for scheduling and practicality purposes as well as any creative reasons. But that was just the baseline. The other designers certainly fleshed out all that stuff throughout development, and things like the random encounter system came later, and really complimented the gameplay we already had.
Moving along, there’s a new interview with Todd at Paste magazine. Head here to read it.
For more news, hit the jump…
Standing next to one of the giant Brotherhood of Steel figures is pretty cool. These things are pretty darn big. Here’s a few shots from the booth.
To give you an idea of scale, here’s me aiming a Fat Man at one:
But seeing them lined up a warehouse, preparing to invade various retail stores around the world? Darn near imposing. Hit the jump to see the legions preparing to be crated and boarded.
This morning on Kotaku, I spotted a custom-made Brotherhood of Steel figure created by Jim Saotome — a gaming fan notorious for making cool custom figures in the past (like Gordon Freeman and the Master Chief).
Over on his website, Saotome discusses how the BoS likeness was created:
“Our Brotherhood of Steel here was made from the upper half of a Sigma 6 Zartan, lower half of Sigma Strike Duke, ML Hulkbuster armor pieces, Cobra Commander helmet, Leatherneck gas mask, then all sorts of odds and ends worked into the piece as well as sculpting with Aves Studios Fixit Sculpt.”
With all those parts from GI Joe characters, it kind of reminded me of how Cobra created Serpentor. Can I get a Yoooo Joe?
