Bethesda Delays PlayStation 3 Fallout 3 DLC

Poor old Ashley Cheng, a producer at Bethesda Game Studios, who has been tasked with telling PlayStation 3 and Fallout 3 owners that their DLC has been delayed.

Back in May the company stated that "Operation: Anchorage will hit the PS3 in June, followed by The Pitt and Broken Steel at four to six week intervals. "

We're now told that, "We are knee deep in testing at the moment, and we’re hoping to have the first DLC out by the end of September..."

Why could this be? "Keep in mind that not only do we need to test each DLC on PS3, we also need to test each DLC when used in conjunction with each of the other DLC, as well as all of them together, along with the entire original game", says Ashley.

Mmm, well. So when's the roll-out?

Back to Ashley "I do have good news! We have decided that Broken Steel will be the first release since it is easily the most requested DLC from our fans. Broken Steel allows you to continue playing the game after completing the Main Quest, raises the level cap to 30, and includes 4-6 hours of additional gameplay. It is also the one DLC that requires you to finish the Main Quest from the game to play the new content. Regardless of whether you’ve completed the Main Quest, the level cap will already be raised and higher level characters will begin encountering some of the new enemies in the Capital Wasteland. For the release of Broken Steel and the other DLCs, we’ll release a new update for the game.

"After Broken Steel, we’ll be releasing Operation: Anchorage and The Pitt shortly thereafter, probably at the same time – just to get them out to you as soon as we can. After that we’ll have Point Lookout and Mothership Zeta available as soon as we can, so that the wait between DLC is as short as possible. Once we release Broken Steel, we’ll have a better idea when the other DLC will be coming and will let you know specifics."