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Fallout 3

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 | Fallout 3 review

Oblivious.

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That incredible-looking mod reimagining Fallout 1 in Doom is still alive, and there's a glorious new trailer

Shotgun wedding.

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The best Fallout games to play right now

Score never changes.

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Supporters | Five of the Best: Thefts

Pinched from elsewhere.

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Fallout 3 Feed

A cartoonish illustration of a black-clad burglar creeping up on a laptop.

Feature

Supporters | Five of the Best: Thefts

Pinched from elsewhere.

Oct. 1, 2025 Robert Purchese

An oversized replica of a red Coke-like bottle top hanging in a shop window. On it are the words Nuka Cola.

Feature

Supporters | Five of the Best: Vending machines

C5 below.

Sept. 18, 2025 Robert Purchese

Fallout Funko Pop

Deals

Fallout TV Funko Pops are coming, as Amazon opens pre-orders

Okey Dokey!

July 30, 2025 Lloyd Coombes

Fallout: Bakersfield screenshot showing a Vault Dweller from the back as they survey a decimated Bakersfield.

News

That incredible-looking mod reimagining Fallout 1 in Doom is still alive, and there's a glorious new trailer

Shotgun wedding.

July 21, 2025 Matt Wales

Sketch of Cow in a blue truck as concept for Mario Kart World

Feature

Supporters | Five of the Best: Cows

Mood.

June 11, 2025 Robert Purchese

Amazon's Fallout TV series is getting a 4K UHD Blu-ray release, and it's up for pre-order now

Deals

Amazon's Fallout TV series is getting a 4K UHD Blu-ray release, and it's up for pre-order now

The limited edition steelbook is sold out everywhere but Amazon.

May 8, 2025 Lloyd Coombes

The main menu in Metaphor ReFantazio, showing a list of options almost exploding from the side of a character's side-on, upturned face. There's a lot of big and garish design elements here.

Feature

Supporters | Five of the Best: Menus

Ordered.

April 2, 2025 Robert Purchese

Wes Johnson.

News

Bethesda sends well wishes to veteran actor Wes Johnson, an "instrumental part of our games"

Fan donations pour in after voice artist hospitalised.

Jan. 28, 2025 Tom Phillips

Ella Purnell as Lucy doing gymnastics in Amazon Fallout show

News

Amazon's Fallout is now an Emmy-winning series

Cool hand nuke.

Sept. 9, 2024 Victoria Phillips Kennedy

Lucy in her Vault Dweller ensemble and Maximus in his Power Armour in Amazon's Fallout adaptation

Feature

What we've been playing - oil rigs, court cases, and great adaptations

A few of the things that have us hooked this week.

July 26, 2024 Robert Purchese

Ella Purnell as Lucy in Fallout on Amazon

News

Fallout showrunners confirm New Vegas character "involved" with season two

All good in the Brotherhood.

June 25, 2024 Victoria Phillips Kennedy

Fortnite promotional art showing a close-up of someone in Brotherhood of Steel T-60 power armour surrounded by smoke.

News

Fallout is coming to Fortnite

As part of next week's Chapter 5 Season 3.

May 17, 2024 Matt Wales

Video

How many of these forgotten Fallout crossovers do you remember?

The Uncommonwealth.

May 6, 2024 Ian Higton

The Lone Wanderer walks with Dogmeat in Fallout 3

News

Fallout 3 leads Amazon Prime Gaming monthly games for May

Plus Tomb Raider and Lego Star Wars!

May 2, 2024 Ed Nightingale

A screenshot from Fallout 4 showing the player character and their dog. Both are stood on a crumbling road stretching away toward a post-apocalyptic city in the distance.

Guide

The best Fallout games to play right now

Score never changes.

May 1, 2024 Rick Lane

An image of the Fallout TV show, showing Lucy sat on a log in the wasteland.

News

Amazon's Fallout TV show was watched by 65m people in its first two weeks

Apocalypse wow.

April 29, 2024 Matt Wales

Amazon Fallout promo showing The Ghoul walking off into the distance as his canine companion sits with a human hand it their mouth

News

Fallout TV showrunners discuss season two location, and why the series doesn't need to follow a canon ending

As designer Josh Sawyer gives his thoughts on season one.

April 23, 2024 Victoria Phillips Kennedy

Promo art for Fallout on Amazon showing Maximus holding a bottle of Nuka Cola. Writing above him reads: "Your Last Refresher"

News

Fallout creator Tim Cain is a big fan of the TV show

Nukes and crannies.

April 22, 2024 Victoria Phillips Kennedy

A Brotherhood of Steel Paladin in Power Armour holding a laser rifle in Fallout 3

Deals

Jelly Deals | If you must now own every Fallout game, we've trawled the wasteland to get the cheapest prices

Here's where to play every game in the post-apocalyptic franchise for the cheapest price.

April 18, 2024 Mark Harrison

An image of the Fallout TV show, showing Lucy sat on a log in the wasteland.

Feature

What is the essence of Fallout, and does the TV show live up to it?

Songs of innocence and experience.

April 18, 2024 Rick Lane

Artwork for Fallout 3 showing downtown Washington D.C. ravaged by the nuclear apocalypse.

News

Prime Gaming adds two more Fallout games for subscribers in April

To celebrate TV show's launch.

April 11, 2024 Matt Wales

Ella Purnell as Vault Dweller Lucy in Amazon's Fallout series

News

The best Fallout TV Easter eggs from episodes one and two

Rad to the bone.

April 11, 2024 Victoria Phillips Kennedy

Kyle MacLachlan as Vault 33's Overseer in Fallout.

News

Amazon Fallout series seemingly renewed for second season, before first episode even airs

Rad.

April 8, 2024 Victoria Phillips Kennedy

Ella Purnell as Vault dweller Lucy in Amazon Fallout series

News

Fallout TV producer Jonathan Nolan says playing the games disrupted writing The Dark Knight Rises

It really got in the Way-ne.

April 3, 2024 Victoria Phillips Kennedy

Walton Goggins winks at the camera as Cooper Howard in Amazon's Fallout TV series

News

Fallout TV trailer includes nods to New Vegas, hints at The Ghoul's backstory

Veni, vidi, vici.

March 8, 2024 Liv Ngan

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