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Incredibly specific patch news now, with the release of a save recognition remedy for the French Canadian version of Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition (product code “BLUS-30455″). The patch will allow the GOTY re-release of Bethesda’s wasteland wandering sim to recognize save files generated by Fallout 3 sans accolades.

As a Bethesda community manager helpfully points out, your old save files will only show up if there are new saves (GOTY) present — if you only have old saves, start a new game and, you know, save. If you have in excess of 130 save files (a sign of prudence!), you’ll have to delete older ones in order for the new ones to be displayed. Oh, and one more thing: “If your saves are taking a long time to load you might want to resave them and back up or remove the old ones.”

And now we’ve exhausted our supply of the word “save,” save for one which we were keeping for the en … dammit, we wasted it!

[One thank you "reserved" for: Harry]

Canadian Fallout 3 PS3 GOTY edition patch now available originally appeared on Joystiq Playstation on Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Posted on November 20th, 2009 at 3:00pm by Ludwig Kietzmann
Filed Under: bethesda, bethesda-softworks, canada, fallout-3, fallout-3-goty, patch, rpg, save

It looks like a Expresso Pizza of Billerica, Massachusetts decided to use the vault boy from Fallout on their menu cover without any formal permission from Bethesda.

Now, I’m sure that Bethesda who publishes Fallout has to own some sort of rights on the vault boy.  so there might be some sort of problem with this right?

When Bethesda was contacted by Joystiq, they had this to say,

Well he is a big part of our Fallout brand and is copyrighted, so, yeah, deciding on your own to use him to promote your business or product, or to sell stuff, or whatever, without getting permission from us … not a good idea.

Seems like Expresso Pizza might need to change that menu cover pretty soon.  I’m sure they will be getting a call from Bethesda sometime in the near future.

Fallout’s Vault Boy on pizza flier: coincidence or soothsaying? [Bad Cartridge via Joystiq]

Posted on November 17th, 2009 at 8:59am by Kreyg
Filed Under: Main, News, PS3, Xbox 360, bethesda, copyright, fallout, pc, pizza, vault-boy

Ever since Fallout 3’s Vault Boy went to space in Mothership Zeta, we’ve been at a loss for where to find the congenial gent. Alas, we never expected to see his mercurial face gracing the cover of a Massachusetts pizza shop’s menu. Expresso Pizza of Billerica, Ma. put the young lad to work on the menu’s cover, holding a pizza and pretending he’s a waiter. We all know you’re a Capital Wasteland Wanderer, silly Vault Boy!

The only question now is “How long until Bethesda shuts this down?” We contacted the Fallout publisher to find out its reaction, and were told, “Well he is a big part of our Fallout brand and is copyrighted, so, yeah, deciding on your own to use him to promote your business or product, or to sell stuff, or whatever, without getting permission from us … not a good idea.” Ruh oh!

(Thanks, Dan)

[Via BadCartridge]

Fallout 3’s ‘Vault Boy’ now delivering pizza, copyright infringement originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Posted on November 16th, 2009 at 10:00pm by Ben Gilbert
Filed Under: badcartridge, bethesda, bethesda-softworks, copyright, copyright infringement, expresso-pizza, fallout, fallout-3, massachusetts, pizza, reddit, vault-boy

With original Fallout IP holder Interplay currently embroiled in a legal battle with new Fallout IP holder Bethesda Softworks, it’s no surprise that the most recently “leaked” images from Interplay’s Project V13 are said to be from an “anonymous, but reliable” source. The Vault Wiki even goes as far as to claim that the images are directly from Interplay, saying “These screenshots were actually submitted by Interplay as court evidence to show that the game is in full production already.”

Putting on our super sleuth detective caps, a Nuka-Cola billboard and the inclusion of a supermutant in these screens certainly confirms they are from some form of Fallout game. Big Download points out that these screens look awfully similar to concept art released by Interplay not too long ago. Without any solid confirmation from Interplay as to the origin of these screens though, we’re gonna have to keep it filed strictly under the “rumor” category for now.

[Via Big Download]

Rumor: Interplay’s Fallout MMO in-game screenshots leaked by … Interplay originally appeared on Joystiq on Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Posted on November 14th, 2009 at 3:30pm by Ben Gilbert
Filed Under: bethesda, bethesda-softworks, big-download, fallout, fallout-mmo, interplay, rumor, screenshots, vault-wiki

Random House has posted information and an excerpt from the first chapter of the Infernal City, a novel based on the Elder Scrolls. The same Elder Scrolls that is the popular game from Bethesda. This is the first of two books that will be based in the Elder Scrolls world.

The book is written by New York Times bestselling author, Greg Keyes. The novel will be available on November 24, 2009 but you can pre-order at various book retail stores now.

A preview excerpt is up here and gives you a slight indication as to how the book will be.

Posted on October 31st, 2009 at 5:48pm by GamingAngel
Filed Under: Lit Angels, New York Times, Publications, bethesda, book, elder-scrolls, infernal-city, random-house