In a recent interview with MTV Multipayer Bethesda’s Jeff Gardiner squashed any possibilities of a level cap increase with the next DLC Fallout: New Vegas.

But there’s good reason for holding back on future increases he explains “I know from the outside this seems like a fairly simple proposition, but doing this could unbalance the game in a variety of ways.” A pretty valid point. Although it would be nice to have something more levels to work towards, why force the issue if there is a chance that it may inhibit your gameplay experience?

For those of you looking for new challenges or want to further play time he recommends starting over with a new character type. After all that is one of Fallout 3’s biggest advantages. There are so many paths a player can take and different options at your disposal that starting over doesn’t necessarily mean you would just be rehashing the same experience twice. Explore!

Jeff did acknowledge however that Bethesda is pleased that people want to keep playing and that things may be different down the road saying “we’ll look into addressing these concerns in future games.”

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The latest in a great string of DLC’s will be available August 3. The aptly named “Mothership Zeta” takes place miles above Capital Wasteland in well…an alien ship. After being plucked from Earth you must fight your way to freedom and help save Earth at the same time. No pressure!

“Mothership Zeta” will also up some new weapons and armor as well.  Two in particular sound perfect for wreaking havoc on your green blooded foes, the Alien Atomizer and the Alien Disintegrator.

Here are the key features Bethesda outlined for the latest expansion:

• Find and exploit new and destructive alien technology, like the Alien Atomizer and Drone Cannon.
• Explore the vast Mothership and learn the secrets of the Aliens’ master plan.
• Thwart the Aliens’ attempt to stop your escape, and take over the Alien ship before it wreaks havoc on the unsuspecting Earth below.
• Fight against the Alien Invaders, their robot drones, and turn their own horrible experiments against them.
• Ally yourself with an unexpected array of characters, both from the Capital Wasteland and from Earth ’s past.

This will definitely be a change in tempo after wasting inbreds for the past few weeks in Point Lookout. And let’s give Bethesda a golf clap for continuing to support Fallout 3 long after it’s release. It seems like every time I think I’m done with Fallout another great DLC pack gets released. You just can’t get over this game. It’s like electronic herpes, but in a good way.

Not that I know what it’s like to have herpes…because I don’t so stop looking at me like that…

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Bethesda announced earlier today that all of the Fallout 3 DLC made available to the Xbox 360 and PC will finally be making it’s way to the Playstation 3. Better late than never I guess.

Operation: Anchorage will be available for your downloading pleasure sometime in June. With The Pitt and Broken Steel being made available further down the road. I would tell you specific dates but Bethesda was mean and didn’t release any. Fail.

Along with the Playstation 3 announcement came word of two more expansion packs to be released for all three platforms. Here are the expansion titles and the descriptions Bethesda gave:

Mothership Zeta seems the most intriguing. New weapons? Hopefully no anal probing will be involved.

We are still waiting for more details on Point Lookout. Not a whole lot can be concluded by the bland description offered. We will fill you in when more details become available.

Hopefully Bethesda releasing these DLCs will make you PS3 owners feel like less of a red headed step child. What do you think of the new expansion packs announced?

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Not a cryptographic message or the cryptographic message is not formatted correctly. (Exception from HRESULT: 0×8009200D)

I think it may have something to do with your computers Flux Capaciter. Not sure though.

Bethesda is acknowledging the problem but is placing blame on Microsoft:

“We’re seeing the same error, which is a Games for Windows Live DRM Install error. Microsoft is working on fixing it, and we’ll let everyone know once we’ve verified it.”

This is the second DLC roll-out that has not gone well for Bethesda. Xbox 360 users still have the memory of The Pitt DLC not working fresh in their minds. I’ll let you know when we here more from Bethesda.

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The DLC will be out May 5 on XBL and will set you back 800.

Take a gander…

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Broken Steel will add four to five hours of game play and takes place after the original ending of the game. Which should satisfy the growing number of people who complained about the original ending. And for those of you who got to level 20, you aren’t the big dogs anymore. The new level cap will now be 30. Sounds like you have some work to do! Along with the cap increase comes new perks, armor and weapons. Still no slingshot to speak of though.

I bet your thinking that you’ll have to cough up more Microsoft points to get this bad boy. Relax, Bethesda was nice enough to keep this DLC costing the usual 800.

To get more details on the upcoming DLC head over to Joystiq.

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During a press conference in London Bethesda announced the next title in the Fallout saga: New Vegas. But Bethesda won’t be working alone. According to Bethesda’s Pete Hines, they will be sharing the load with Obsidian Entertainment.

Both developers are working on a 2010 release date for the Xbox 360, PC and Playstation 3. 

According to Hines the newest installment in the Fallout series “Is not a sequel to Fallout 3″. And it will follow the same RPG formula that has brought the franchise much success.

Clear your date books, it looks like we will all be spending hours locked in our rooms again in 2010.

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