Fallout: New Vegas Announced

 

Shacknews posted new information trickling from a UK Bethesda press event. The big news is that Bethesda announced a new game called Fallout: New Vegas. It will be developed by Obsidian of KOTOR II, Neverwinter Nights 2, Alpha Protocol fame. It is unclear whether it will be an expansion(which most probably it is) or a completely new engine. According to shacknews:

 

New Vegas will be an RPG in the style of Fallout 3, Bethesda noted, but the company did not confirm if it uses the same engine. The studio also stressed that it came up with the idea for New Vegas internally and then pitched it to Obsidian, not the other way around.

 

These are about the only info about the new fallout game. Will keep updated with new info. It sounds a lot like a standalone expansion pack. I believe it will used the Fallout 3 Gamebyro engine.

"It is not a sequel to Fallout 3," said Bethesda marketing VP Pete Hines. "It was just a great opportunity we thought to work with some guys who very clearly know Fallout--Feargus [Urquhart] and those guys were there in the early days of Fallout."

Obsidian Entertainment was founded in 2003 by several former employees of Black Isle Studios, the company responsible for the original Fallout titles.

"We approached them. And obviously they were like, 'Yeah!' That was a pretty easy conversation," Hines continued. "It's definitely an RPG. Same sort of experience as what folks got in Fallout 3. It's not Fallout Tactics, it's not Brotherhood of Steel. It's another Fallout game in that universe."

More info from IGN:

The game is being developed by Obsidian Entertainment and is due out sometime in 2010 for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC. The game is not a direct sequel to Fallout 3, though it is an RPG and Bethesda has said that you can expect the "same type of game," despite the fact that a different developer is working on it.