One of the bigger titles to hit gamers next year definitely has to be Bethesda Softworks' Fallout 3 (PC, Xbox 360, PS3). This is why people love squeezing as much information about the game as they can from Pete Hines, Bethesda's Vice President of Public Relations.

While the game won't be seeing a release until Autumn of next year, Hines mentions that production for all three platforms are coming along pretty well. Although there was a preference towards the Xbox 360 because the developers enjoy using the dev tools available on the console.

One of the biggest differences with the sandbox environment of Fallout 3 and Oblivion was the fact that Fallout 3 will be a little bit more restrictive in terms of how "open" the players can roam around the world. However, due to the number of different endings for Fallout, there's more than enough room for replayability.

He also gave a nod in the direction of ZeniMax Online Studio, the new company responsible for setting up Bethesda's MMORPG projects. Hines says that it will be a while before ZeniMax will be revealing anything about their plans for an online version of any of their games.

Finally, Hines noted the amount of detail their visuals team put into creating a very convincing post-apocalyptic feel into the game. He had this to say on the matter:

For the outdoor stuff, it's definitely really difficult to render that kind of destruction. But for us the big benefit is, on this generation of technology that incorporates both the two new consoles as well as the stuff we're doing now on PC with DX 9 and DX 10. This is another go-around for us on those things.