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 -...
Every Friday, A.V. Club staffers kick off the weekend by taking a look at the world of gaming, diving in to the ideas that underpin the hobby we love with a bit of Game Theory. We’ll sound off in the space above, and invite you to respond down in the comments, telling us what you’re playing this weekend, and what theories it’s got you kicking around. We’re now two weeks gone from the release of Prime Video’s Fallout, a shockingly good TV adaptation of one of the greatest video game series of...
Ok, so Fallout 4’s next-gen update finally drops this week, and, obviously, it’s not remotely close to being Fallout 5.If you’ve been among the droves of folks returning to everything from Fallout 76 to New Vegas after enjoying Amazon’s Fallout TV show, you don’t need me to tell you that it’s been a little while since we’ve had a new Fallout game. Bethesda’s been busy with Starfield and is now moving on to The Elder Scrolls 6, but, at some point - hopefully before 2077 - Fallout 5 should be a...
Bethesda has announced that the Fallout franchise saw almost five million players in a single day across its games. The most recent entry, Fallout 76, saw one million players enter its online world.
For many fans, Fallout: New Vegas is the best in the series, but you may not that it was inspired by an earlier, abandoned concept.
Prime Video’s Fallout series introduces the idea of inter-connected vaults, deviating from the original video games.
This fan-made 'Fallout'-style game runs entirely in Microsoft Excel, so you can play while at work without your boss being any the wiser.
During the ID@Xbox presentation, we got a creepy but intriguing look at Centum, an upcoming point-and-click adventure game scheduled to launch sometime this summer. The game is set to release for Xbox Series X|S and PC. Centum sees you trying to escape a strange cell, but the announcement trailer hints that there may be more to the story. The environment of your prison shifts and changes, and the Steam page for the game says that you're at the mercy of an unreliable narrator. Though the art...
Fallout season 2 teases New Vegas, and I couldn't be more excited. But here's what I think it needs to be just as great or better than season 1.
A deal can net you all seven Fallout video games and their corresponding DLC for just $42 AUD.
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 […]
A joke about Homer’s childhood TV set is a whole thing in ‘Fallout’