Van Buren was the codename given to Fallout 3, a game that was being developed by Black Isle Studios before Interplay, the parent company of Black Isle, laid off the PC development team on December 8, 2003. Van Buren was set to carry on the Fallout series, following Fallout 2, prior to being cancelled. Currently, an official Fallout 3 project is being developed by Bethesda Softworks. This is a pre-alpha build, so it will be buggy, crashy, and magical. Too much info at Wikipedia.
In the past week footage from the upcoming Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare 2 (or MW2 for short) was leaked. It depicted a terrorist act and the tragic deaths that resulted. This footage has prompted the Australian authorities to reconsider the game’s MA15+ rating. MW2 is the first Call of Duty game to receive Britain’s ‘illustrious’ 18 rating but that’s in Britain. Australia is an odd country: it is reasonably developed (before anyone complains,... read more...