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We'll Lu-see | Fallout season two likely won't see Fallout 76 take its TV crossovers to a whole new level, as its devs don't want to "give fan service for just the sake of doing it"

"We probably won't go out of our way to add a whole bunch of stuff specific to the show, because we don't feel like we need to."

Dec. 20, 2024 Mark Warren

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The Next Evolution? | Would Fallout 76's devs be open to doing playable super mutants? The game's lead producer says it could depend on how much people like going ghoul

"That does give pause to talk about: ‘Okay, does it make sense for us to have anything else in this world that players can do?’"

Dec. 19, 2024 Mark Warren

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Ghould Vibes | As it heads into 2025, Fallout 76’s lead producer discusses playable ghouls, why Fallout needs a giant snake, and whether we’ll ever get playable super mutants

“I think ‘cool’ kinda overrode whether or not anybody cared about ‘does this even fit like that’”, says lead producer Bill LaCoste.

Dec. 19, 2024 Mark Warren

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Radioactivity | Fallout 76 playable ghoul hands-on preview – a rad expansion, especially if you're keen for an undead dip

Playing as a noseless adventurer in a Fallout game had me embracing my inner irradiated Michael Phelps.

Dec. 19, 2024 Mark Warren

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Don't Jinx It | Sorry, but Fallout and Arcane's Ella Purnell wants to stay away from more video game adaptations, and she's right to do so

She got lucky twice.

Dec. 12, 2024 Fran Ruiz

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LonDLC Calling | Fallout: London's next patch will come with its first bits of DLC, as Team FOLON celebrates becoming a registered business by asking players to help shape its future

The massive mod's devs are going in for a penny, in for a pound.

Dec. 5, 2024 Mark Warren

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Yeehaw! | You can ogle at Walton Goggins getting "back in the saddle" for Fallout season 2 while you think about picking up a pair of Walton Goggins Goggle Glasses

Say that five times fast.

Dec. 4, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

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On The Boatses | Baldur's Gate 3's Astarion on why he was keen to add some "very British, you know, everything's a nightmare" flavour to Fallout: London's sassiest mode of transport

"I didn't have any say on the lipstick, but we did improvise a lot."

Dec. 2, 2024 Mark Warren

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Humble Brag | "This is the most confident I've ever been" - one veteran RPG dev with titles like Baldur's Gate and Fallout under his belt on the upcoming Avowed

"I'm just overjoyed at how well everything's come together."

Dec. 2, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

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PASS THE GAMES | The best Game Pass games on Xbox and PC in 2024

Our top picks of the greatest games on gaming's best subscription service.

Dec. 1, 2024 James Billcliffe

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TOP OF THE DROPS | The best PlayStation Plus games on PS4 and PS5 in 2024

Our top picks for Sony's money-saving subscription service!

Dec. 1, 2024 Connor Makar

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Mojaving Fun | Fallout fan fest in real-life version of New Vegas' Goodsprings features NCR vs Legion battle re-enactments, and a Todd Howard cosplay with "an actual piece of trash"

The Fallout community's annual trip to the Mojave came with plenty of cool cosplays, as has become the tradition.

Nov. 18, 2024 Mark Warren

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Wasteland Walkout | UPDATE: "We are not afraid to do what's necessary" Hundreds of Fallout and Elder Scrolls devs at Zenimax go on strike against Microsoft

The need to bargain over issues like remote work options and outsourcing is the crux of the one-day action, union claims.

Nov. 14, 2024 Mark Warren

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Philling Us In | Xbox's Phil Spencer on why a new Fallout game didn't drop alongside the TV show: "the play is much more long term than trying to drive some gift buying"

The Microsoft gaming exec actually reckons not trying to time the two up together allows a bit of extra "creative liberty".

Nov. 13, 2024 Mark Warren

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Choices, Choices | "We really heavily focused on freedom to play the game the way you wanted" - Fallout: New Vegas' director on Obsidian's goals in the face of bug criticisms and Fallout 3 comparisons

"You always have to prioritise things."

Nov. 10, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

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Modking A Difference | Nexus Mods says folks "should be pressuring" paid mod platforms to "do better" if they're frustrated by its new policy on the ever-controversial topic

Modding site puts some "ire" at its change down to people seeing its features as "far more powerful and convenient than those offered by the paid modding platforms".

Oct. 31, 2024 Mark Warren

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Free vs Fee | Nexus Mods updates its stance on paid mods for the first time since Bethesda's latest attempt at them, says it believes "modding should be a pursuit of passion first and foremost"

This policy update's proved a bit polarising - as stuff around this subject always does - and Nexus' team says it has "another update" coming soon.

Oct. 30, 2024 Mark Warren

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Azura's Daily Star | Beyond Skyrim: Cyrodiil is gearing up to let you decide who rules the Imperial City long after Oblivion, and it’ll feature something any world definitely needs: unhinged tabloid journalism

Yep, you can't escape dickheads like us writing about things you do in sometimes tonally interesting ways, even in Tamriel.

Oct. 28, 2024 Mark Warren

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Worth The Wait? | One former Bethesda dev thinks Starfield 2 is going to be "one hell of a game", so it's a shame we probably won't get to play it for another decade

Or maybe Bethesda has finally cracked the code on not taking so long to make its games.

Oct. 27, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

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Open Roads | The best open-world games to play in 2024

It feels good to take the path less travelled, sometimes.

Oct. 24, 2024 Kelsey Raynor

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Radi-ey, yo-tion | Fallout Day sees Bethesda whip out its giant snake while showing you its new dungeon, oh and Todd Howard was there too

It also petted doggies, teased fishing, and showed some playable ghouls in action. An interesting evening.

Oct. 24, 2024 Mark Warren

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Bombs And Bunting | Fallout: London modders reveal it's officially surpassed that big one million redeems milestone on Fallout Day, because sometimes life does a thing

Team FOLON teased it was coming, and - whether on purpose or not - the announcement's come at a pretty fitting time.

Oct. 23, 2024 Mark Warren

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Okie Dokie! | Desperate for Fallout season 2? You might be in luck, as one actor shares that filming is starting a lot sooner than you'd expect

Details on the second season are still being kept quiet though.

Oct. 22, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

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By Azura | Starfield modders are attempting to re-create Oblivion in space, with hopes for an eventual "Elder star system" that'll be "finishing the job" the Adoring Fan started

The starting point for "Starblivion" is an alternate start mod that kicks off your interstellar adventure in a familiar dungeon.

Oct. 22, 2024 Mark Warren

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Into The Vault | Despite releasing a popular demo this summer, Fallout 1 remake mod Fallout: Vault 13 has now had its development "suspended"

"This was not an easy decision, but we believe it is the right step at this stage of our journey."

Oct. 21, 2024 Mark Warren

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Millennium Bridge | Wahey, Fallout: London's huge update that brings "over a thousand fixes" drops today, and the mod's "VERY close" to having been redeemed one million times

"You’ll notice a massive difference right away."

Oct. 18, 2024 Mark Warren

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Big Boom Day Bash | Bethesda announces its first ever Fallout Day broadcast, featuring a look at future plans for Fallout 76 and a community parade

Party Like It's 2077.

Oct. 17, 2024 Mark Warren

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Toddaly Unexpected | After a minor calendar mix-up, Helldivers 2's next big patch drops soon and it's already inspired jokes about Skyrim being ported to some bullets

To be fair, I doubt you'll have much time to play DOOM on your rifle while you're in the middle of a firefight.

Oct. 14, 2024 Mark Warren

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What About One Piece | Starfield's design director thinks the sci-fi RPG sits "right next to Fallout and Elder Scrolls" as part of Bethesda's "big three", but that's not really for him to decide, is it?

"It might not be everyone's cup of tea. What is?"

Oct. 6, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

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It Exists | Starfield Shattered Space review - Almost

The first major expansion for Bethesda’s big space baby isn’t terrible by any means, but it still just feels like more Starfield, for all that that entails.

Oct. 4, 2024 Mark Warren

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He Said Words | Starfield is "in a lot of ways, the best game we've ever made", even if it "might not be everyone's cup of tea", reckons Bethesda design director

"We pushed ourselves to make something totally different."

Oct. 3, 2024 Mark Warren

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Uranium Fever | Fallout has crossed 100 million viewers worldwide, becoming Prime Video's second-biggest show after The Rings of Power

Finding more gold than in the Sierra Madre.

Oct. 3, 2024 Fran Ruiz

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Matters of Matter | No, Starfield Shattered Space ghost parents, I will not stop touching everything in your acid-filled teleportation shop

Look, I'm a curious young man, and I have to satisfy it no matter whether you keep waving your spectral laser guns in my face.

Oct. 2, 2024 Mark Warren

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Silent Serpent | Is Starfield's most famous House Va'ruun member worth bringing with you to start Shattered Space? Kinda, unless you run into a bug that makes her lose her voice

It's ok, some people just find it a bit awkward running into folks they probably went to school with.

Oct. 1, 2024 Mark Warren

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Prepare To Dock | Starfield Shattered Space release time: the DLC's landing is imminent, here's when it unlocks in your region, and how to start it

All the info you need to know before you give Starfield's first major expansion a go.

Sept. 30, 2024 Mark Warren

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London Calling Soon | Fallout: London's next patch is bringing some "huge improvements", with Team FOLON having drafted in extra help to revamp the mod's performance

"Yes, it's taken a little longer than expected, but it's for a good reason."

Sept. 26, 2024 Mark Warren

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Settling Down | Skyrim grandma Shirley Curry has announced she's retiring from YouTube let's plays because "it isn't fun anymore"

With the amount of videos she's put out, though, you won't be hard pressed for content.

Sept. 23, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

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DLC Kickoff Duds | With Starfield Shattered Space nearly here, a new mod will help you fit in by looking like a weird snake DJ when you rock up on Va'ruun'kai

Look, maybe someone blasting a bit of Scooter is what House Va'ruun needs to help it recover from that space-time calamity.

Sept. 23, 2024 Mark Warren

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Va'rruning Wild | Starfield's Shattered Space DLC gets fresh deep-dive from Bethesda, with a bunch of story details about missing serpent dudes and "the vortex incident"

Some experiment swallowed up part of a city and a weird faction's engaged in an internal war - time to call John Starfield and his moon buggy.

Sept. 16, 2024 Mark Warren

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RIP | The actor behind Fallout YouTube's power-armoured loremaster The Storyteller appears to have died, leading to tributes from the Bethesda community

According to a tweet from his account, voice actor Jason Damron passed away from cancer on September 7.

Sept. 11, 2024 Mark Warren

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Not What You Think | Fallout: Vault 33 just won an Emmy, but what is it?

I don't want any of you sarcastically commenting "the show, duh."

Sept. 9, 2024 Oisin Kuhnke

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Castle Vlogihar | Thanks to mods, a Skyrim streamer is now basically vlogging their playthrough live from Tamriel as a Dragonborn influencer

Yes, it's the same dude that previously turned the game's NPCs into one big Twitch chat.

Aug. 28, 2024 Mark Warren

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Loco-motor | Good news, Starfield's moon buggy has just received its true rite of modding passage - transformation into Thomas the Tank Engine

Forget it being made into a Warthog, this was the true moon buggy mod we should all have known was unavoidable.

Aug. 27, 2024 Mark Warren

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Cap Converters | Fallout co-creator Tim Cain believes that criticising capitalism was "never the point" of the series, it's actually just the whole war never changing thing

Though, he is fine with people reading it that way, and acknowledges his general take on our economic system might need some reconsidering.

Aug. 23, 2024 Mark Warren

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Spacerunner | Starfield's moon buggy can do sick jumps, but it can't outrun the inevitable - modders swapping it for Halo's Warthog, a Star Wars speeder, and, er, a van

See, I told you it wasn't a totally pointless thing.

Aug. 22, 2024 Mark Warren

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House of the Red | Bethesda seems to be channeling its inner Dead Space with Starfield Shattered Space - and it genuinely looks interesting

Starfield's first expansion seems to have what it takes to win me back, thanks to a focus on 'the mystery and horror' of the universe.

Aug. 21, 2024 Dom Peppiatt

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No Shattering | Starfield's Shattered Space expansion arrives this September, and here's a free moon buggy that you can grab today doing some sick jumps, bro

Bethesda has finally confirmed the release date for Shattered Space, the first major piece of Starfield DLC.

Aug. 20, 2024 Sherif Saed

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Green to Blue? | Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is seemingly the next Xbox title coming to PS5, but not until next year

Indy and his hat will be whip-swinging onto Sony's consoles following a period of timed exclusivity, it's claimed.

Aug. 20, 2024 Mark Warren

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Cyrodiil On Track | Skyblivion, the massive mod remaking Oblivion in Skyrim's engine, looks pretty great as devs show off some fresh quest gameplay ahead of 2025 release

Mages bickering over books and goblin killing sprees. Aye, that's Oblivion alright.

Aug. 15, 2024 Mark Warren

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DungeonsNDeathclaws | Fancy spicing up Fallout: London with some Baldur's Gate 3-style randomness? Team FOLON's now put out a dice roll add-on that'll help you unleash chaos

"Do not expect a serious playthrough whilst using this mod."

Aug. 15, 2024 Mark Warren