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The last few years I haven't done any modding for games, though I've modeled something every now and then or tried to get a little better at texturing. I also tried the construction sets for Morrowind and Oblivion, though I've never messed with them seriously. Other than creating items for myself, I tried my hand at creating a dungeon and things like that.
And then Fallout 3 came out. I loved the game, but there were just some things about it that bugged me, that I thought would be nice to change. I wasn't aware that you could already mod it, but then a few mods came out and I got curious how they managed to mod it without mod tools. So I began to find out how other people did it and found out that there was FOMM and FO3edit, which you could use to make modifications to the game even before the GECK was released. And so I started - first I looked at other mods, what they did, how they did it, tried to recreate it for myself, and then changed it to how I wanted it to be. My Pipboylight mod is a good example of this. I used galogen, never liked how big the light was, so I decided to try and make a better version of it, which resulted in my Pipboylight mod. Of course without a real construction set the options were pretty limited and with so many unknown settings who knows what it would have done when you changed them. So it was great when we got the GECK, it opened up a whole new level of possibilities. Like creating imagespace modifiers or creating new enemies, actually knowing how to change his health instead of guessing what hex code to change.
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From the first time the Vault door rolls open to your initial encounter with a 15-foot-tall mutated monster with eight-inch claws to a climactic ending battle that we won’t spoil for you here, Fallout 3 is a game you can’t possibly experience by playing just once. It’s all of these memorable moments - just a few of which are captured right here - that put Fallout 3 ahead by a nose in the tough competition for this year’s PC Gamer Game of the Year Award.

Then, outside our favorite, local ice creamery, Humphrey Slocombe, Patrick Klepek of MTV Multiplayer joined our Cesar and Philip Kollar (also of Eat. Sleep. Game.) in a conversation about their experiences with the Fallout 3 expansion, Operation Anchorage.

The Pitt consists of a large 'dungeon' area, an abandoned steel yard, as well as a settlement divided into two halves; Downtown, occupied by slaves, and Haven occupied by their masters.

Side quests and unique items are promised, naturally, including the fearsome-looking Auto Axe, which a bit like a chainsaw crossed with a Black & Decker hedge trimmer.

Best Atmosphere
Best RPG RPG
Best PC Game
Best Xbox 360 Game

Bethesda Softworks' award-winning post-apocalyptic role-playing game delivers its second expansion pack. "The Pitt" (800 Microsoft Points, about $10) allows players to enter the nuclear remains of Pittsburgh and a deadly conflict between slaves and their Raider masters. It offers new characters, enemies, weapons, missions — and morally challenging choices.

200 years since the bombs fell and somehow everything is tinted green? Dust in the atmosphere, even if it could magically last 200 years, wouldn't make things green.

FWO changes all that. The Capital Wasteland is a dusty place, so expect to see some truly spectacular sunsets and very dark nights. Places like Megaton are brighter at night, they have artificial lighting but the DC Ruins and Wasteland do not. Only a fool travels away from 'civilization' at night.