Originally Posted by Bradylama 
There is no information on the design of Fallout 3, which is the scary part. A lot of us have conjectured that Bethesda isn't talking to us because they're afraid of the word of mouth that NMA, DAC, and the Codex would generate against the project, hoping that we'd sit idley by in a Malthusian apocalypse of information starvation because there's "no information" to talk about.
Is this was the case wouldn't they have still provided information to sites like IGN and gamespy? They haven't provided design information or screenshots to ANYONE, most likely because it is either too far away from release or they quite simply do not have anything to show off yet….