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   Not a year goes by without Bethesda breaking some great news, and even though 2007 has just begun, we have already whitnessed the announcement of The Elder Scrolls IV: Shivering Isles expansion pack for PC and Xbox 360. Given Oblivion's planned release on the PlayStation 3 as well in a couple of months, it's only natural that we ask ourselves whether Shivering Isles will also make its way on the PS3. And another question that's always on our irradiated minds when referring to Bethesda is "whatever happened to Fallout 3"?

   Regarding this last issue, the latest update on the games' status comes from the UK Official Xbox Magazine, via GamerNews.org:
Speaking to Todd Howard (Executive producer of Oblivion, Morrowind and Fallout) with regard to Bethesda's plans for 2007 and beyond, he told [OXM]; "We started work (on Fallout 3) in late 2004 with a few people. We only had about 10 people on it until Oblivion wrapped, but most of our staff is on it now." Is it wishful thinking that Fallout 3 will eventually be released on Microsoft's next-gen machine? With the game itself utilising the same Gamebryo engine as Oblivion, perhaps not. And promised to be as huge and open-ended as their multi-award winning 2006 effort, demand for Fallout 3 on the Xbox 360 would be huge.

"We have pretty long preproduction phases on our stuff," continues Howard "doing concepts, design, building prototypes, and such. We should be ready soon to show it off, but we'll see."    The story was also referred by Bethesda senior producer Ashley Cheng in his blog a couple of days ago, who goes on to recall about past games in the Fallout series. And speaking of which, earlier this month there was a story claiming that Fallout 2 (&1) was the most popular torrent of 2006, having been downloaded 1,165,564,987 times. Indeed, one freakin' billion!

   Phew, but getting back to Oblivion, we find confirmation that the Shivering Isles expansion will certainly be coming to the PS3 on CVG:
The good news is that Bethesda plans on a PS3 launch but whether it'll come bundled with the original, currently due for PS3's launch, remains to be seen. "It is our intention to make it available for PlayStation this year, but no release date has been set."    Unfortunately there's still no media available for Bethesda's Fallout 3, but we do have some recent screenshots for the PS3 version of Oblivion, and for the PC version of Shivering Isles. Mix them up in your head, and you get a mental image of Shivering Isles on PS3.