Success of Fallout proves video game adaptations have gone mainstream


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The Guardian— As the show becomes a global hit and is renewed for a second season, experts say game adaptations are the new superhero moviesIn the first few days of its release, Fallout – the Prime Video adaptation of the post-apocalyptic video game franchise – has become a hit with global audiences, shooting to the top of the UK chart and ranking among Prime’s top three most-watched titles ever.On Friday, just a week after the show debuted in more than 240 countries and territories, Amazon announced it had...

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VG247—The Best Fallout games: Every Fallout game ranked. Fallout. It's a series of games about what happens when someone pushes that big red button to drop the nukes, damning an alternate timeline version of humanity to spend an eternity doing fun little quests among the rubble. Within that, there's scope for some of the best RPG fun you can get, no matter what kind of fun it is that you're looking for in an RPG.We've all thought about what'd happen if the bombs were to actually fall, and since 1997, first Interplay and Black Isle, now Bethesda -...

Popternative—7 Video Game TV Shows to Watch After 'Fallout'. 7 Video Game TV Shows to Watch After FalloutPrime Video’s latest series is the post-apocalyptic, sci-fi Western Fallout, based on the popular video game franchise of the same name. The eight-episode first season premiered on April 10th and earned a 94% overall Tomatometer rating with the critics consensus that it is “an adaptation that feels […]