Fallout: New Vegas dated

By Tom Bramwell Published 14 June, 2010

Plus: fancy E3 trailer released.

Bethesda Softworks has announced that Fallout: New Vegas will be released on 19th October in the US and on 22nd October in Europe.

The news comes alongside the official E3 trailer, which you can watch below.

Fallout: New Vegas is due out for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 and has been developed by Obsidian Entertainment.

The game's set in the same universe as Fallout 3 but takes us to a post-apocalyptic Las Vegas instead.

Check out our most recent Fallout: New Vegas preview for more, and watch out for detailed impressions at E3 this week.

The official Fallout: New Vegas E3 trailer.

Picture of Tom.

About Tom Bramwell

Tom is Operations director of Eurogamer Network and Editor-at-Large of Eurogamer.net. He joined the company in February 2000.

Read more articles from Tom by visiting the Tom Bramwell archive page.

You may also like...

Comments (29) Latest comment 2 years ago

Comments threads automatically close after 30 days, but please feel free to continue chatting on the forum!

  • andywilkie35 #1 2 years ago

    After playing Alpha Protocol and considering it's a followup to Fallout 3, this could be very special.

  • laharl80 #2 2 years ago

    Looks like more of the same which is a great thing in my book.
    Some cool new weapons in that trailer.

  • Eraysor #3 2 years ago

    Using that ion cannon thing on an unsuspecting friend is going to be entertaining.

  • davisorle #4 2 years ago

    Im trying to not get impressed. Thing is that Fallout 3 was amazing. At first I had to start playing all over like 3 times till i started liking the game and get to finish it. Turned out awesome. This one isnt developed from Bethesa like Fallout 3. Its from Obsidian Entertainment and swapping hands on followups has been proved to be a bad thing for good franchises. I really really hope they dont ruin it. If it's as good as the last one then Im sold of course.

  • Ranger101 #5 2 years ago

    @Eraysor - Is this going to be MP enabled??

  • gallow #6 2 years ago

    @ davisorle

    Obsidian consists of some of the people who worked on the first two original Fallout games so this should hopefully be the better game.

  • MerricK #7 2 years ago

    Eurogamer ... again late to the show. OLD NEWS

  • darkmorgado #8 2 years ago

    Cool trailer. Can't wait.

    Off-topic but, HOW F*CKING FRUSTRATING IS THAT SPRING LEVEL IN WORLD 4 OF GALAXY 2? ARGH!

  • darkmorgado #9 2 years ago

    @davisorle

    Erm, you realise that the guys at Obsidian actually created the Fallout franchise in the first place, yeah?

  • oldschoolsoviet #10 2 years ago

    Hot diggity damn.

    One question. An Enclave spybot ?

  • GooseUK #11 2 years ago

    Can really see the need to force me to watch a fallout new vegas advert before watching a trailer for the same game. Never mind eh?

  • mr_pink #12 2 years ago

    Nice explodey stuff, though they still haven't fixed those jerky character animations and slightly lifeless faces then? Ah well, I'm sure I can overlook a bit of ropey modelling if it's anywhere near as good as Fallout 3.

  • Weezer #13 2 years ago

    Looks decidedly 'last gen'.

  • Soton4084 #14 2 years ago

    Not sure about this new Fallout game. It looks a bit too much like Fallout 3 for my liking and I've played that game so much it is a bit boring now! Although I must admit, Obsidian did a brilliant job with the sequal to KOTOR, so we'll have to wait and see! So long as it works this time and isn't buggy then it could be a contender for game of the year. I purchased the Fallout 3 GOTY edition and it was buggy as anything! I couldn't even play several of the add on packs because they kept freezing!

  • Farzlepot #15 2 years ago

    @ mr_pink

    Given how much time passed between Oblivion and Fallout 3 and how both these games share this flaw, I'm beginning to suspect that the problem with character animations and faces is one with the engine itself, rather than their creative process. Maybe they can't fix it?

  • chrisola #16 2 years ago

    /books week off work

    woo! been waiting for the official date

  • FortysixterUK #17 2 years ago

    Looks.
    AWESOME.

  • rayscoota #18 2 years ago

    This movie sold it to me, its now on my to buy list

  • Jonathan_Fakenham #19 2 years ago

    Yeah, I even clocked as much as 225 hours in Fallout 3 myself, but hopefully with the new story and setting, they'll grab you right back again nevertheless.

  • retr0gamer #20 2 years ago

    Eh couldn't they have shown better gameplay footage than the glitchy super mutant appearing out of nowhere?

    Still I loved Fallout 3, warts and all.

  • metalangel #21 2 years ago

    Original Black Isle team members or not, stuff like KOTOR2 makes me nervous.

  • Iain815 #22 2 years ago

    That song is awesome.

  • darkmorgado #23 2 years ago

    stuff like KOTOR2 makes me nervous.

    KOTOR2 wasn't the fault of Obsidian. Lucasarts forced a 12-month development and then refused to let Obsidian do any substantial post-release content/support. Had they been given more time, they would have been able to implement all the extra stuff that they had, and which can be found (mostly) on the discs.

  • StooMonster #24 2 years ago

    Sad puppy that I am, I pre-ordered this on Steam. Knowing full well that I should wait for GotY edition so that I would get all the DLC included rather than paying through the nose for it.

    But I just loved Fallout 3 so so much.

  • Vortex808 #25 2 years ago

    This was an instant buy for me anyway, as i loved fallout3 so much. It looks like more of the same which is fine by me. Even if some of the animations still look a bit ropey. I got totally lost in the world last time and did pretty much everything. Can't wait.

  • gorf #26 2 years ago

    There goes 130 hours of my life..again. Hope this maintains the quality of its predessor (spelling?).
    Edited by 1 at 14/06/10 @ 20:59

  • CalmHorizons #27 2 years ago

    @retr0gamer

    I think that was a Super Mutant using a Stealth Boy: A la the ghost-mutants in Fallout 1 Children of the Cathedral map.

  • Death-Jester #28 2 years ago

    Wooo, 19th October, released on my birthday :D
    I got the Collectors Edition on FO3 (the bobblehead is still on my desk!), and I am definitely going to get the collectors edition of this one.
    Edited by 1 at 17/06/10 @ 19:42

  • partymachin3 #29 2 years ago

    @davisrole Dude this is a good thing because technically the fallout franchise is finally returning to the hands of its original developers of Black Isle because Obisidian is a group from the once Black Isle Studio so if anything having black isle technically work on its game again is just a big favor for fallout new vegas