Fallout 3

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Platforms

PC
PS3
Xbox 360

Initial release Oct. 28, 2008

Developers

Bethesda Game Studios
Bethesda Softworks

Genres

RPG
Shooter

Publishers

Bethesda Softworks

Franchise Fallout

Fallout 3 Spotlight

Review: Wot I Think: Pinball FX2 - Bethesda Pinball

Flip and tear

Adam Smith

9 years ago

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Laid off Bethesda Montreal staff allegedly told they'd get "smallest severance legally possible" the same day as those Fallout announcements

Their company health insurance has been reportedly cut off already too

Oisin Kuhnke

3 months ago

52
Come Friendly Bombs: Modding Fallout: New Vegas To Look More Like Fallout 4

Restoring life to the wasteland

Alec Meer

11 years ago

48
Bethesda's Fallout 3 and New Vegas remasters won't stop the modders who've already spent years recreating the RPGs in Fallout 4

"We’re just as excited for the remaster as we are to continue working"

Mark Warren

3 months ago

22

Fallout 3 Feed

A player attacks two super mutants in Fallout 3

News

Laid off Bethesda Montreal staff allegedly told they'd get "smallest severance legally possible" the same day as those Fallout announcements

Their company health insurance has been reportedly cut off already too

July 22, 2026 Oisin Kuhnke

52 comments

A vault dweller runs from one of the swamp folk in Fallout 4 mod Fallout 4 - Point Lookout.

News

Bethesda's Fallout 3 and New Vegas remasters won't stop the modders who've already spent years recreating the RPGs in Fallout 4

"We’re just as excited for the remaster as we are to continue working"

July 20, 2026 Mark Warren

22 comments

A vault boy sign constructed in Fallout 4.

News

Fallout 5 is in preproduction alongside The Elder Scrolls 6's development, while Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas remasters are on the way, Bethesda confirm

Here's a big post-layoffs splurge of future plan details

July 17, 2026 Mark Warren

58 comments

Feature

Meet the man who stuffed as much Deus Ex into Fallout 3 as was "humanly possible"

“Trying to get the stealth better, that was only part of it.”

March 2, 2026 Jeremy Peel

32 comments

Doc Mitchell showing the courier a vaguely phallic drawing in Fallout: New Vegas.

News

Amazon's Fallout countdown delivers possibly the only thing more pointless than a New Vegas or Fallout 3 remaster

Yeah, I said it

Feb. 4, 2026 Mark Warren

21 comments

A Brotherhood of Steel Paladin standing in the DC ruins of Fallout 3.

News

Fallout 3: District of Columbia doubles the size of DC's ruins by resurrecting a bunch of cut areas

Get ready to get lost in a "labyrinthian maze" of ghoul-infested metro tunnels and devastated streets

Jan. 7, 2026 Mark Warren

6 comments

Lucy in season two of the Fallout TV series.

News

Fallout season 2 is fuelling another Steam player bump, as folks once again remember they like Fallout

It's nowhere near the apocalyptic numbers the first series reeled in, but still nothing to sniff at

Jan. 7, 2026 Mark Warren

5 comments

A funny looking NPC in Oblivion Remastered.

News

Oblivion Remastered modder splices Fallout 3's level-by-questing into Cyrodiil, and my virtual knees are glad

In case you fancy gaining power in a way that doesn't come with an urge to spam spells 24/7

July 18, 2025 Mark Warren

1 comment

The original Fallout box art with a power armour helmet

Feature

The original Fallout is the perfect antidote to Fallout fever

War did change, actually

April 23, 2024 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

117 comments

The Brotherhood of Steel as seen in Amazon's Fallout TV adaptation.

News

The Fallout TV series trailer certainly looks like Fallout, except for that one cyclops

It's coming April 12th

Dec. 2, 2023 Graham Smith

60 comments

The player character looks out over a vast rocky vista in Starfield

News

Now Starfield’s out, Bethesda’s PR and publishing honcho Pete Hines is retiring after 20-plus years at the studio

“The time is right”

Oct. 16, 2023 Matt Jarvis

Yagrum Bagarn, the last dwarf, sits corpulent upon mechanical spider legs in The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind.

News

If Bethesda are remastering Oblivion and Fallout 3, why not Morrowind?

They've already spent 17 years remaking Oblivion anyway

Sept. 19, 2023 Alice O'Connor

137 comments

A man paints a picture of a woman in Dishonored 2

News

Dishonored 3 plus Fallout 3 and Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion remasters appear on leaked Microsoft doc

Also, "Project Kestrel" and an untitled licensed IP game

Sept. 19, 2023 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

50 comments

A strange group of trees forming archways, with even stranger giant humanoid statues behind them, in The Axis Unseen

Feature

Fallout 76's lead artist is building a creepy single-player open world in The Axis Unseen

“Skyrim was awful to play for the longest time.”

June 16, 2023 Jeremy Peel

10 comments

A chunky Brotherhood of Steel boy in a Fallout 3 screenshot.

News

Skyrim and Fallout devs talk about some fun secrets in their games

Severed legs, Blackreef and headless horse riders

Feb. 28, 2023 Kaan Serin

4 comments

Promo art of a suit of power armour stood inside a Red Rocket garage from Fallout 4

News

Unofficial Fallout TV show set photos show the Red Rocket garage being built

I feel like I've been here before

Jan. 25, 2023 CJ Wheeler

3 comments

Three images. The first shows a horned reaper from Dungeon Keeper staring upwards. The second shows the Doom Slayer from Doom Eternal standing menacingly. The third shows actual psychopath Jason Brody from Far Cry 3.

Feature

5 games that make you the monster

*Twilight Zone theme music intensifies*

Oct. 24, 2022 Liam Richardson

45 comments

News

Fallout 3 and Evoland are free to keep from the Epic Games Store this week

Some hefty chunks of RPG going for nothing

Oct. 20, 2022 CJ Wheeler

8 comments

Fallout 76 - A character wearing power armor with an American flag paint job

News

Vault images emerge from the set of Amazon’s Fallout TV show

Caution: may trigger flashbacks to the start of Fallout 3

Aug. 17, 2022 CJ Wheeler

9 comments

Fallout 76 is a post-apocalyptic massively multiplayer online RPG from Bethesda Game Studios.

News

The Fallout TV show has cast David Lynch's muse Kyle MacLachlan as a regular

An actor who’s no stranger to wacky roles

June 29, 2022 CJ Wheeler

22 comments

Fallout 76's first Expedition mission ventures to The Pitt, which we last saw in DLC for Fallout 3.

News

Fallout 76's next DLC is heading back to The Pitt, for some reason

Expedition: The Pitt introduces the game's new replayable missions

June 13, 2022 CJ Wheeler

5 comments

Geralt tosses a coin purse in a The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt screenshot.

Feature

Supporters only | Trees make for good quests in games don't they?

Reading this will turn you into Ash

Dec. 23, 2021 Ed Thorn

14 comments

Hanging out with Dogmeat in a Fallout 3 screenshot.

News

Oh my god, Fallout 3 has removed Games For Windows Live

Warning: the update breaks mods which need FOSE

Oct. 13, 2021 Alice O'Connor

25 comments

a screenshot of Fallout 2 with a wide-screen mod applied; the player character wearing a leather jacket talks to other toughs in a junkyard

Deals

ZeniMax games are up to 85% off in the GOG QuakeCon sale

Dishonored, DOOM, Fallout, Prey, Quake, Wolfenstein and The Elder Scrolls.

Aug. 13, 2021 Will Judd

6 comments

Some Brotherhood of Steel folks standing around in their red, white and blue power armour.

News

Fallout 76 visits Fallout 3's The Pitt next year

Plus a new Brotherhood Of Steel quest arrives this July

June 14, 2021 Imogen Beckhelling

5 comments

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