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Downloadable content will be announced very soon for both the PC and Xbox 360 versions of Left 4 Dead, according to Valve’s Chet Faliszek, who spoke at length with the Kotaku crew during its recent holiday podcast. That new DLc will include the addition of the single player campaigns “Dead Air” and “Death Toll” to the Versus mode, the PC SDK for developing content for the PC version of the game and some additional undisclosed content.

Chet Faliszek, who started out running the wonderfully funny web site Old Man Murray, is responsible for retooling the stories for both Portal and Left 4 Dead, among other things. The way the story is told through audio cues, light dialogue and character interaction in Left 4 Dead is one of the primary reasons I chose it for our Game of the Year Awards. Sadly, it could not beat out the glory of Fallout 3, but the game is a monumental achievement in storytelling and multiplayer in my book.

I touched upon this yesterday in The Rundown, but today let’s analyze the particulars. This week Wayne County, Michigan Prosecutor Kym Worthy released her list of Top 10 Violent Video Games Played By Teens. The list, which is actually a rehash of the Mature rated section of games from the National Institute on Media and the Family Video Game Report Card for 2008, feature’s a who’s who of the most popular “M” rated games in North America. The link between “teens wanting to play these particular games” is tenuous at best, but we’ll get to that in a minute.

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Fallout 3 PS3 gets patched, Stormrise web site launched and all this week’s Marketplace releases get detailed.. Last updated 9:47 pm, Dec. 16.

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2008 is slowly fading to black. Don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out. Here’s today’s news..

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Ah, the G.E.C.K. Long a staple of the Fallout series, the Garden of Eden Creation Kit is the nearly mythical Holy Grail of the post-apocalyptic world, with the capability to build a lush paradise out of the nuclear wasteland. For fans of the PC version of the latest Fallout game though, there’s a new G.E.C.K. available that puts them in control of changing the world to their every whim.

Bethesda Softworks announced this morning that it has released the Fallout 3 level editor, via a link on the game’s official website. With the G.E.C.K. editor, users can create, modify, and edit any data in the game, from building landscapes, towns, and locations to writing dialogue, creating characters, weapons, creatures, and more. To help players get the most out of their modding experience, Bethesda also opened up the G.E.C.K. Wiki, a community-run site where modders will find everything they need to use the The Garden of Eden Creation Kit to the fullest.

So, Fallout fans, the time has come for all of you to cry ‘have G.E.C.K.’, and let slip the mods of war! (Apologies to Shakespeare for the pun)

The Timothy Plan, an investment group that offers a family of funds that are morally upright, has released a report called “An Inside Look Into: Video Games”, sure to whip the faithful into a frenzy. We assume that this report is for members that ascribe to the questionable notion that any investment firm is capable of claiming moral high ground or finding companies that don’t engage in some questionable practices.

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Bethesda Softworks announced that the editor and the first batch of downloadable content available for Fallout 3 in the coming weeks. The official editor for Fallout 3, called the G.E.C.K. (Garden of Eden Creation Kit), will be available for free download in December and will allow Games for Windows users to create and add their own content to the game. In addition, the first official downloadable content, Operation: Anchorage, will be available exclusively for the Xbox 360 and Games for Windows in January, with more downloadable content coming in February and March.

The release of the G.E.C.K. will allow players to create, modify, and edit any data for use with Fallout 3, from building landscapes, towns, and locations to writing dialogue, creating characters, weapons, creatures, and more.

Three downloadable content packs will be coming to Xbox 360 and Games for Windows Live starting in January that will add new quests, items, and content to Fallout 3. Details on those after the jump.

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