If you missed Fallout: New Vegas, good news - now is the time to buy, with the Australian release of the Ultimate Edition:

With the release of the Ultimate Edition Bethesda Softworks presents the definitive edition of Fallout: New Vegas®. This complete package, which includes the full version of Fallout: New Vegas as well as the Dead Money, Honest Hearts, Old World Blues and Lonesome Road add-on packs, allows you to experience everything that New Vegas has to offer. Each of these four main add-on packs combined ultimately raise the level cap to 50. To sweeten the pot, you’ll be armed with the latest cache of unique weapons, ammo types and recipes from the most recent add-on packs Courier’s Stash and Gun Runners Arsenal.

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Bethesda have sent along a new trailer for the expected Ultimate Edition release of Fallout: New Vegas - a new standalone retail pack that will bundle the base game with every last piece of downloadable content.

This complete package, which includes the full version of Fallout: New Vegas as well as the Dead Money, Honest Hearts, Old World Blues and Lonesome Road add-on packs, allows you to experience everything that New Vegas has to offer. To sweeten the pot, you’ll be armed with the latest cache of unique weapons, ammo types and recipes from the most recent add-on packs Courier’s Stash and Gun Runners Arsenal.

Fallout: New Vegas Ultimate Edition is due on Australian shelves on February 9th 2012, watch the trailer below for a showcase of the contents.

Bethesda Softworks has announced Fallout: New Vegas Ultimate Edition, a collection of all the game's released DLC to-date as well as the main game, available for all three platforms in Australia and New Zealand from February 9, 2012.

For players who are seasoned explorers of New Vegas or just getting into the game for the first time, the Ultimate Edition expands beyond the Wasteland like never before with the Sierra Madre Casino, Zion National Park, Big MT research crater and the treacherous Divide now open for exploring. Along with new areas to explore, each of the four main add-on packs increases the maximum level cap by five levels, ultimately raising the cap to level 50.

You'll also get the smaller add-ons released for the game such as Courier's Stash and Gunrunner's Arsenal really making this the ultimate way to get into the game. That is, of course, if you're not already way too invested in Skyrim's massively epic game-world.

In case you missed it, you can check out our in-depth Fallout: New Vegas review right here (9/10).

While the PC version of Fallout: New Vegas received a rather hefty update early last week, the Xbox 360 version was still awaiting deployment. This happened over the weekend and was immediately followed by reports of system crashes and corrupted save files, leaving Bethesda no choice but to urge players who hadn't received the update, to decline it when next they fired up the game.

Since then, an update for their corrupt update has been applied to all English versions of the game, so if you did suffer any of the above, it's safe to load and apply the new update. For anyone else, you should be all good to go from scratch.

Let us know in the Comments if you had, or are having, any issues with the update.

During the break Obsidian and Bethesda let loose a much-needed patch for Fallout: New Vegas, first for the Pc and soon to follow on the consoles.

According to the Steam listing, the patch addresses a number of balancing issues, including guns, and in some cases even changes the overall use of a weapon, prompting the idea of extended playthroughs. Unfortunately there's no mention of the patch extending the same need for an open ending like Fallout 3, leaving players who've finished the game still locked out of DLC potential (or just wandering the Wastes potential), and having to load earlier saves in order to continue to enjoy all the game has to offer.

Click here for the full run-down of changes.

Bethesda and Obsidian have released the first trailer for Dead Money, their first DLC episode for Fallout: New Vegas, due to hit the Xbox 360 exclusively from December 21.

As the victim of a raw deal you must work alongside three other captured wastelanders to recover the legendary treasure of the Sierra Madre Casino. In Dead Money, your life hangs in the balance as you face new terrain, foes, and choices. It is up to you how you play your cards in the quest to survive.

While many a Fallout: New Vegas non-Xbox 360 player is likely to be up in arms over the content's exclusivity, 360 players will get an action-packed, all-new narrative adventure with new characters, weapons, enemies and Achievements.

Watch the trailer embedded below or click here to stream or download it in HD.

Obsidian Entertainment have patched their buggy, yet awesome Fallout: New Vegas on PC (no word on a console patch just yet), which will apply automatically through Steam.

Patch 1.02 addresses a number of key problems, which we've listed in their entirety for you right here, but as a heads up, here're a few stand-outs:

• Pip-Boy Interface
• Perks
• Skills
• Chems/Addiction
• Hardcore Mode

And those are only a few of the key gameplay fixes, there're more along with a heady list of updates for a lot of the game's major quests. Just in time for the December 21 release of New Vegas' first DLC, Dead Money.

IGN have revealed the first DLC release for Fallout: New Vegas, well ahead of the schedule for DLC set by Bethesda and Fallout 3 (maybe it will sneakily ship with some serious patch work).

"Dead Money" will be available for download from December 21, exclusively for Xbox 360, where players team up with three other wastelanders for something of a heist/treasure expedition to recover the Sierra Madre Casino treasure. It's promised we'll see new areas, new quests and new major decisions, though no specifics on desperately need patches or updates were mentioned and there was also no media released.

The new content will cost 800 MS Points (AU$13).

As promised, our Fallout: New Vegas review embargo has been lifted (despite seeing reviews popping up online all day), and so we now have the full AusGamers verdict for you.

So has Obsidian lived up to the legacy left in the wake of Fallout 3? Or have they surpassed Bethesda's efforts given they have actual original Fallout devs working within their walls? Has the game fallen victim to the notion Obsidian often lack in the polish department? Or has working on Bethesda's proprietary engine helped?

We answer all these questions and more in our very own in-depth review.

For Fallout fans counting the days before we have New Vegas, Bethesda have shot through a new trailer showcasing the direction Obsidian have taken elements such as technology and weapons, with a fantastical 50s-inspired future world with which to play with.

They reveal elements about the classic 'ray gun' and how they worked that more cohesively into the game than in Fallout 3, as well as give details on a few new weapons, including a pistol that shoots rifle rounds. Equally, in the sound department, they talk about utilising the vast, open spaces of the desert in which the game is set and just how they approached background noises to properly reflect that while also delving into the game's soundtrack.

Watch it embedded below, or click here to download.