Playstation 3 to get Fallout 3 DLC

Finally Ps3 owners can get past Level 20!

Bethesda have announced that all previous DLC will becoming to the Playstation 3 starting in June. There is also 2 new DLC Packs announced for all versions of Fallout 3.

The rumored Point Lookout, and the all newly announced Mothership Zeta.

Bethesda have made sure that all their content will be in working order for the Ps3 and will kick off with a new update before the expansions are released.

Bethesda Software:

We have been working on implementing it for a while and look forward to bringing it to PS3 gamers via the PlayStation Network. Operation: Anchorage will be released for PS3 in late June, followed by the release of The Pitt and Broken Steel 4-6 weeks apart. Release dates will be forthcoming.

In addition, a new update will be released for PS3 that will allow users to download and play the new DLC. The release date for that update will be announced at a later date.

Info on the new DLCs planned for all three platforms.

• Point Lookout – Explore a massive new swampland area filled with new quests and content. Coming late June for Xbox 360 and PC for the usual 800points/£6.80. The Ps3 version will be released sometime after the previous 3 packs are available.
• Mothership Zeta – The aliens have returned, and they’re pissed. Experience an alien abduction first hand and find out if you’re tough enough to survive. Coming late July for Xbox 360 and PC for the usual 800points/£6.80. Motership Zeta will be released for the Ps3 sometime after Point Lookout makes its way to the platform.

Bethesda have also announced new Fallout3 products to hit retail later this year, including  a Game of the Year Edition.

Fallout 3 Game Add-on Pack #1 includes The Pitt and Operation: Anchorage on a disc and will be available for Xbox 360 and PC on May 26th.

The Fallout 3 Game Add-on Pack #2 includes Broken Steel and Point Lookout on a disc and will be available for Xbox 360 and PC in August.

Retail versions of the game add-on packs for PS3 are not possible and the DLC will only be available for download online via PlayStation Network.

A Fallout 3 Game of the Year edition will be available in October. It will include the original game plus all five add-ons for $59.99 for Xbox 360 and PS3, and $49.99 for PC.

Fallout 3 is like an Energizer Bunny, It goes on and on and on…

Broken Steel is well…Broken

I guess you can Break Steel after all.

According to multiple reports, the PC version of Fallout 3 DLC Broken Steel isn’t working as it should.

The download throws up the error during installation:

“Not a cryptographic message or the cryptographic message is not formatted correctly. (Exception from HRESULT: 0×8009200D)”

There also appears to be a difference between the reported file-size (510Mb) and the file you actually download (471.6Mb).

Bethesda are also aware of the problem as one of the developers wrote on there forums:

Also Ill just say it here. We are looking into it. Sorry for the inconvenience for all the fans and players out there.

Note I am even getting the same issue

The last DLC that got released, The Pitt, also suffered errors on the Xbox 360. I guess they worked harder to make sure the 360 version worked correctly but forgot about the PC this time.

-UPDATE 1-: Broken Steel has been removed from the PC Marketplace whilst Bethesda look into the issue.

-UPDATE 2-: Looks like the PC version is the only one having Issues, The 360 Achievements don’t add to GamerScore, Microsoft are sorting the issue.

-UPDATE 3-: Broken Steel’s PC installation issues are “a games for Windows Live DRM Install error”, a Bethesda representative said. “Microsoft is working on fixing it, and we’ll let everyone know once we’ve verified it.”

Regarding the Xbox 360 achievement anomalies, “The Xbox Live servers don’t seem to be fully synched yet with the additional achievements. This should fix itself automatically soon. People won’t lose any achievements.”

I’ll update more as this unfolds.

Broken Steel now LIVE

Go Break Some Steel!

As promised, Fallout 3’s third DLC, Broken Steel has now gone LIVE. It’s available now on Xbox LIVE and Games for Windows LIVE for 800points.

You may have dealt the Enclave a serious blow at Project Purity, but their forces are still out there, and still pose a grave threat to the people and security of the Capital Wasteland. In Broken Steel, you’ll continue your current Fallout 3 character past the events of Project Purity, and work with the Brotherhood of Steel to eradicate the Enclave threat once and for all. You’ll travel to new locations like the Olney Powerworks, wield destructive new weapons like the Tesla Cannon, fight powerful new creatures like the Super Mutant Overlord, marvel at the destructive power of Liberty Prime, earn new Perks like the devastating Nuclear Anomaly… and play Fallout 3 all the way to level 30!

Go get it now!

Fallout 3: Broken Steel DLC Preview

You can “break” steel?

Fallout 3’s third DLC, Broken Steel, is coming to Xbox LIVE and Games for Windows LIVE tomorrow. As with the previous DLCs, Broken Steel will cost 800 Microsoft Points.

The new DLC includes a lot of new features, like raising the level cap to 30 and adding 6 new achievements worth 150Gs

WARNING:  If you haven’t finished/played Fallout 3, you may come across spoiler material in the following text and trailer. You Have Been Warned!

Last Chance to stop looking!

The end is no longer neigh!?

The biggest change of all is that the game no longer ends.

The main quest in Fallout 3 ends with the player making a few important decisions on the future of the region’s water supply. It also sometimes could end with the player’s death. This time around, whoever goes into the reactor won’t die. What’s more, you can even send in one of your three followers that is possible to have with you at that time. You awaken after a sucessful engagement of the reactor, which gives fresh water all across D.C.

Bethesda haven’t released all the details until the DLC goes live tomorrow, where you’ll have to play it yourself to find out what happens. What we do know however is that the DLC has Higher level Mutants and new Power Armour to go find amongst other things. There’s also a huge assault quest with the Enclave and the world around you has now changed due to all the fresh water all around D.C.

People will be filling up buckets of water to take back to settlements and you can help escort them and defend them from Bandits and they’ll probably give you some caps for it too.

There’s a bunch of new quests to do, and now that you can continue to play on from the ending you can go back to quests you may have missed (providing you haven’t killed any of the quest givers).

Fallout 3: Broken Steel Downloadable Content out tomorrow for 800 Microsoft Points.