Anticipating the launch of the Mothership Zeta DLC for Fallout 3 on the Xbox 360 and PC, MTV Multiplayer asked Jeff Gardiner of Bethesda via an email interview if it would be possible to raise the level cap from the current 30. His answer: it's not advisable as it could make the game unbalanced.

Despite the lackluster appeal of movie adaptations of video games, super Hollywood producer Jerry Bruckheimer remains positive that one day, they just might get it right. And it won't suck the living daylights out of us anymore.

Tick-tocking like cogs in a gear, the Gears of War movie is moving along smoothly. The film hasn't been casted yet, much less the production started on, however, we do get some promising updates at the very least. Screenwriter Chris Morgan give us a status update on New Line Cinema and Epic Games' joint project. They're already talking about budget and how potentially epic this feature length movie can get. "All the stuff you want to see, we put that in there and then we blow it out a little more, even," says he.

With the June 26 launch of the second Transformers movie looming closer day by day, attention turns to the accompanying video game, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (PS3, Xbox 360, Wii, PSP, DS, PS2, PC), from Activision, which opened a demo in NYC last week. Now we've got word that the publisher is planning to offer more characters for the game as DLC.

Electronic Arts hasn't always been viewed as a publisher that puts out the greatest licensed games. Its CEO, however, took exception to that. John Riccitiello says their titles are innovative and Metacritic may just be inaccurate in some instances. More after the jump.

Uh oh. As MTV Multiplayer puts it, the tables have turned on the disgruntled fans. Diablo III's lead designer, Jay Wilson, finally stepped up to the plate to take on the fans' edited screenshots. And we can tell you right now that the full story isn't going to be music to your ears, if the edited art-style was your bread and butter. But what we can say is that Blizzard has their reasons. Learn more about how Diablo 3 matured to "rainbows."

So it would appear that some third-party developers are getting what Stardock meant - the fate of PC gaming is on the hands of the developers. BioWare, a reputable PC developer of the past, has also expanded to the console market like many others, but they aren't about to abandon the gaming platform. Speaking to MTV, CEOs Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk said that the role-play experts might keep developing PC exclusives in the long run. And there's a little hope for Apple iPhone games from them as well. More on that when you click "read more".

The game industry may be getting swamped with sequels, remakes, annualization, and all manner of money-raking tactics. That's bad news, an analyst says, because creativity among developers is often compromised. He says, however, publishers are better off in the long run by breeding talent among the minds behind the medium. Get his full take in the article after the jump.

Uwe Boll has a lot of experience in making movie adaptations for video games - he's the guy who directed the movie adaptations of games such as House of the Dead and Alone in the Dark. Blizzard, however, turned him down when he approached them to make the World of Warcraft movie. Story in the full article.

We all know what pushed EA's The Sims 2 to its stellar success: clever gameplay. Apparently, the cleverness in that brand has spilled over in real life as one of its top bosses almost pulled a fast one on the game media. Who would have thought that The Sims 3 was actually already out for some time now? But of course, there's a bit of a catch. How much of a catch? Check out the full article and be enlightened.