Fallout: New Vegas - Preview @ Joystiq

There's a very short preview of New Vegas at Joystiq:

For a lot of people, that won't be a bad thing -- New Vegas doesn't break what's not broken, and the few things it does change are definitely improvements. VATS is updated a little bit to make activating it smoother, and add a few cinematic views to the gory proceedings (a new "kill cam" mode shows you some big kills even during first-person action). Companions now have their own rotary menu with eight different commands, so you don't have to talk to them every time you need them to do something. Books have been changed into magazines, weapons react a little better, and we've heard that guns can be modified (though I didn't get to see that during the demo).