According to a report over at GamesIndustry.biz, a leaked version of the hotly anticipated Fallout 3 has unofficially hit the web via a stack of torrent sites.

Fallout 3 isn't due for official release for another few weeks yet, and given Bethesda are pretty tight when it comes to security (we've barely even been able to see the game let alone touch it, much), it makes for a pretty grim case in their internal studios (or among the press who likely got a review copy early, either way - tsk, tsk).

Of course we do not condone such acts, but according to GI.biz, more than 2000 people were grabbing the game from the perched torrent site at the time of issuing the report.

it's a review copy not the final retail version

Well, I guess it is time to stop looking at Fallout 3 threads across forums. People are bound to start posting spoilers.

EDIT: A quick check of the Fallout 3 official page states that Fallout 3 has gone Gold. With any luck the leaked version will prompt an earlier release date for Fallout 3.

October 9, 2008 (Rockville, MD) – Bethesda Softworks®, a ZeniMax Media company, announced today that its highly anticipated title, Fallout® 3, has gone gold and will be available on store shelves and online in North America on October 28, in Europe and Australia on October 30, and in the UK on October 31.

Awww, still around October 30th.

Also System Requirments for the PC version.

Min (pfft whatever)
* Windows XP/Vista
* 1GB System RAM (XP)/ 2GB System RAM (Vista)
* 2.4 Ghz Intel Pentium 4 or equivalent processor
* Direct X 9.0c compliant video card with 256MB RAM (NVIDIA 6800 or better/ATI X850 or better)

Recommended
* Intel Core 2 Duo processor
* 2 GB System RAM
* NvidiaDirect X 9.0c compliant video card with 512MB RAM (NVIDIA 8800 series, ATI 3800 series)

Intel CPU's eh? Sponsored by Intel?



last edited by Tollaz0r! at 08:47:28 11/Oct/08

This is regarding the 360 version not the PC version as far as I am aware.

Yeah I'm thinking it would be the 360 version

yeah it is the 360 review copy.

Pirating on consoles? That's unpossisble!

semi-related question: EB has that 7 day return policy, does that also apply to PC? because the manager told my mate they dont do it because of the issues with piracy etc.

but i couldnt find anywhere stated that the return policy was only for console games. also, you can pirate console games anyway.... this article being a case in point.

You can pirate any software, sometimes a console might require a chip or something similar to allow it though.

EB don't refund games with Online CD keys or something like that.

Here they were thinking 'PC gaming was dead due to piracy'.

Then this shows up. Oh well so much for said console market.

Except that even though its shown up, only a tiny percentage of 360 owners can actually play it

Apparently there were very few disks sent out to very select people, so they've managed to narrow it down already. Whoever did this will likely be found out

call me old fashioned by i sure do love hunting witches!
i believe you mean "witch-hunt"
thank you, but I prefer it my way

Here they were thinking 'PC gaming was dead due to piracy'. Then this shows up.

Oh well so much for said console market.

Yeah pretty much what Khel said. I know Dan pretty much nukes every call-out post I make on you for some reason, but have you ever made a post that isn't retarded? You are a really dumb f***.

Here they were thinking 'PC gaming was dead due to piracy'. Then this shows up.

Oh well so much for said console market.

Yeah pretty much what Khel said. I know Dan pretty much nukes every call-out post I make on you for some reason, but have you ever made a post that isn't retarded? You are a really dumb f***.

Being able to play some leaked pre-release game is different to being able to generally pirate stuff on Xbox 360. From what I can see it's actually not too hard to download pirate regular Xbox 360 games and a half-assed Google search shows torrents for all the major ISOs.

I have to assume most people don't pirate a lot of console games because the average console gamer just buys a few titles a year and can't be bothered going to all the efforts they need to in order to pirate games. Whereas a PC pirate can just click a few links and they're done. I have to assume if someone figured out a way to painlessly and easily softmod a 360/PS3 so it could play juarzed games (like a USB key thing or something), you'd see a pretty sharp uptake of console piracy.