Following the success of the Fallout TV adaptation, Fallout 76 has—perhaps inevitably—attracted a new audience, reaching over a million players in a single day according to the series’ official X account. Taking Steam as a sole metric (the game is also on Sony and Xbox consoles), Fallout 76 reached its all-time player peak only two […]
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Like so many of us, I bounced off Fallout 76 back in 2018. Bethesda’s micro MMO wasn’t very good back then—an opinion that even Todd Howard shares these days—but the studio stuck with it, reverse engineering its Appalachian aberration into an engrossing multiplayer wasteland complete with NPCs, settlements, factions, and years’ worth of quality-of-life updates. […]
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First reported by PCGamesN, ubiquitous videogame mod site NexusMods has been experiencing interruptions due to an influx of traffic as new and old Fallout fans check out the games after watching the show. Fallouts 4, New Vegas, and 3 are the third, fourth, and eighth all-time biggest games on the site, commanding over 2 billion […]
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Jack Black is the undisputed King of the Video Game Movie. He’s the voice of Bowser in The Super Mario Bros. Movie, and he’ll soon play Claptrap in Borderlands and Steve (recently voted one of the most iconic video game characters of all-time) in Minecraft. If Black has his way, maybe he’ll voice a horse […]
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Amazon’s new video game adaption series, Fallout, arrived on April 12 in one massive, bingeable chunk, and less than ten days later, the show has overtaken streaming. Such is the power of Walton Goggins‘ charisma (in this case, as The Ghoul), and the freakishly fun show not only capitalizes upon that obvious strength (and the […]
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The success of the new Fallout TV show has led inevitably to the observation that a ton of people are now excited about Fallout, but there’s no new Fallout game to play. Fallout 76 is over five years old, and Fallout 4 turns nine this year. Bethesda is going to make a Fallout 5, but […]
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The reaction to the Fallout show has been almost universally positive, and even those of us who have a few complaints about it still really enjoyed it. But Prime TV’s Fallout adaptation has raised a few questions among fans and Fallout lore enthusiasts, particularly when it comes to one important historic location: Shady Sands. Spoilers […]
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Prime TV’s Fallout show is here, and if you’ve watched all eight episodes you might find yourself in the mood to play one of the Fallout games. Fallout 5 is still a decade away, and Fallout 4’s most ambitious full conversion mods aren’t out yet, so if you’re gonna play a Fallout game it’ll have […]
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There are a ton of familiar moments for fans to lose their mind over in the first season of the Fallout TV show. It may not have been particularly significant, but the first time I saw someone use a stimpack or heard The Ink Spots’ I Don’t Want to Set The World on Fire was […]
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Thanks to standout performances in Justified, The Righteous Gemstones, and now Fallout, where he chews the scenery as 200-year-old bounty hunter The Ghoul, Walton Goggins has become the go-to actor for any project looking to add impeccable charm and/or a side of menace. However, like most actors of his generation, Goggins didn’t instantly became a […]
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You know how every time an actor lands a video game role they always claim to have been huge fans of the property for years? Well, in a refreshing bit of honesty, Fallout star Ella Purnell isn’t going that route. While promoting her breakout performance as Lucy in the Amazon series that’s already racking up […]
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Now boasting a glossy (and surprisingly authentic) TV adaptation, Fallout is the talk of the town again—not bad for a series that started out as a niche turn-based isometric RPG from the ’90s. While Fallout 4 and 76 are probably better known these days, most longtime series fans still sing the praises of Fallout: New […]
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The Vaults were built to protect human life from atomic bombs, providing safe underground shelter for years until the surface world was once again safe to be inhabited. At least that’s what the Vault-Tec Corporation told everyone. As Fallout 2 revealed, in truth most of the Vaults were built to perform sinister, cruel, and occasionally […]
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Mass extinction is just the beginning for Amazon Prime Video’s latest streaming entry, Fallout. It’s here, at the beginning of this largely spoiler-free review, that we’re obligated to explain the darkly funny, post-apocalyptic satire’s video game origins even though knowledge of said origins is absolutely not a prerequisite for enjoyment. Yes, Fallout is an adaptation […]
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There are not one but two highly-anticipated video game adaptations set to premiere this month that will provide nonstop thrills, though only one of them has Walton Goggins. The other is about a short-beaked echidna (NOT a hedgehog). What team are you on?! One of the most anticipated shows of 2024 is Amazon’s take on […]
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When I first saw Lucy MacLean, one of the protagonists of the new Fallout TV series and the ex-vault dweller turned Wasteland adventurer, I wondered how she’d fare in the unforgiving world of Fallout and questioned whether she’d even be able to make it to the end of the first season. But as her actress, […]
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The hands on the doomsday clock are closer to midnight than ever now that Amazon has announced that, actually, it’s gonna put its upcoming Fallout TV show out even earlier than it promised. That means all eight episodes will drop tomorrow, April 10, at 6 pm PT / 9 pm EST / 2 am BST. […]
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I wouldn’t say that I’m much of a control freak, but watching ex-Vault dweller Lucy MacLean wander through a junk-filled convenience store in Amazon’s Fallout TV series and not take everything that isn’t bolted down made me more than a bit restless—but that’s just something I’m going to have to get used to. The upcoming […]
Read More I wouldn’t say that I’m much of a control freak, but watching ex-Vault dweller Lucy MacLean wander through a junk-filled convenience store in Amazon’s Fallout TV series and not take everything that isn’t bolted down made me more than a bit restless—but that’s just something I’m going to have to get used to. The upcoming […]
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It’s tough work adapting a beloved game like Fallout to a TV series. With almost 30 years of games, lore, and players with hundreds of hours getting everything just right, director Jonathan Nolan certainly had his work cut out for him when filming for the upcoming TV show began. “We really wanted to have a […]
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With the Fallout TV series only a few weeks away from airing, now’s a great time to jump back into the Wasteland. If you’re on the fence about where to look for your radioactive fix, Fallout 76‘s latest Expedition, Atlantic City: America’s Playground, is honestly a great starting point. “Like everyone else, I’m really looking […]
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