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The Fallout TV Show Proves The Last of Us Wasn’t A Fluke

Video-game adaptations are mostly bad, so bad they’re good, or lucked into some cult following. Thankfully, we’ve now had the amazing The Last of Us release, and Fallout just knocked it out of the…

April 11, 2024 | 10:00 EDT

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Starfield's Shipbuilding Is the Endgame Bethesda Needed

Anyone who is familiar with Bethesda's open-world RPGs will tell you that although there is a nearly limitless amount of content available to you, only a fraction of that content can be considered…

September 26, 2023 | 09:00 EDT

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Starfield's Outpost System Is Holding the Game Back

Now that Starfield has been released into the hands of millions of adoring fans across the world, it seems that most people would agree that the game has more or less lived up to expectations. Yes,…

September 19, 2023 | 09:10 EDT

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Could Starfield Lead the Way to Xbox's Best Year Yet?

Anyone who has been keeping up with the happenings of the gaming industry for any substantial time will tell you that it's best to keep your expectations low. Even with this maxim in mind, the last…

June 14, 2023 | 12:00 EDT

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Every Version of Skyrim Ranked

With the announcement of Skyrim: Anniversary Edition slated to release this November, a sobering realization hit: There are way too many versions of this open-world RPG out there. In the 10 years it…

August 23, 2021 | 12:00 EDT

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Fallout 76: Wastelanders is Saving the Game One NPC at a Time

For the past year or so, Fallout 76 was (rightfully) dragged over the coals for its lackluster, well, everything. To say that the game was an embarrassment to the Fallout franchise is a bit of an…

April 17, 2020 | 01:00 EDT

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What Can The Elder Scrolls: Blades Tell Us About The Elder Scrolls 6?

By most accounts, The Elder Scrolls: Blades is ... okay. It has most of the trappings of an Elder Scrolls game, but it's definitely a mobile game at heart. Compared to any other modern game of the…

April 30, 2019 | 02:00 EDT

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Fallout 76's Focus on Multiplayer May Not Be Such a Bad Thing After All

Of all the announcements to come out of E3 2018, one of the more controversial of the bunch is that the next Fallout game, Fallout 76, is going to be more multiplayer-oriented than what some may be…

June 26, 2018 | 02:00 EDT

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Free Alternatives to Bethesda's Fallout 4 Creation Club

Bethesda seems to be headed straight for another fiasco with their Creation Club, quite similar to how the Paid Mods Workshop went years ago. It didn't help that a lot of the content available from…

September 4, 2017 | 10:00 EDT

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Deal or Dud? A Look at Bethesda's Creation Club Debut on Fallout 4

After a tumultuous unveiling at E3 2017, Bethesda's Creation Club is finally available on Fallout 4 for the world to see and judge. Often derided as a return to paid mods, the Creation Club is a…

August 30, 2017 | 01:00 EDT

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From Dishonored to The Elder Scrolls: How Bethesda Can Win E3 2017

With the release of Prey, DOOM, and Dishonored 2 within the last year, Bethesda has proven that it is more than just a one (or perhaps more accurately, two) trick pony that only knows how to create…

June 7, 2017 | 09:00 EDT

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Mods We'd Like to See Ported to Skyrim Special Edition

With Skyrim Special Edition on the horizon (tomorrow), our minds inevitably turn to mods. In fact, Nexusmods have already announced that they will be creating a dedicated new site separated from…

October 26, 2016 | 11:00 EDT

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How Realistic is Fallout? - Part Deux!

Continuing our series on Fallout's realism (or lack thereof), today we'll be covering radiation and mutations, because who doesn't love that? For info on the real-world version of things like Vaults…

October 1, 2016 | 11:00 EDT

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How Realistic is Fallout? Part 1

The obvious answer is "oh, come on, REALLY?" But weirdly enough, while the Fallout franchise takes quite a number of liberties with reality, it has borrowed from real life as often as not. I was hit…

September 24, 2016 | 11:00 EDT

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Modding Fallout 4: A Few of My Favorite Things

  As I write this, the central hub for Fallout modding development, The Nexus, has over 10,000 files letting you tailor how you play Bethesda's Fallout 4. When you consider that the vast majority…

May 21, 2016 | 11:00 EDT

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Surviving the Commonwealth: A Guide To Fallout 4's Survival Mode

  With the release of Fallout 4’s new and improved survival mode, we have seen the game take on a whole new life and playstyle that is quickly catching the attention of Fallout fans. Survival mode…

May 20, 2016 | 01:00 EDT

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5 Issues With Fallout 4's Changes to Survival Difficulty

  Fallout 4's upcoming DLC will be bringing some changes to Survival Difficulty and some industrious Redditors detailed them. There's a lot of interesting new challenges there, but there's a few…

March 1, 2016 | 01:00 EST

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5 New Rooms I'd Like To See In Fallout Shelter

Fallout Shelter recently pushed a notification that new rooms would be coming in an update. I neglected to get a screenshot of the notification, but thankfully Redditor /u/Krade33 snapped one and…

February 29, 2016 | 01:58 EST

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16 Improvements Fallout 4 Can Make For Settlement Building

When I heard the announcement of Fallout 4 coming out, I was understandably excited. I thoroughly enjoyed Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas. When I saw Bethesda's showcase of Fallout 4 at E3 I…

December 5, 2015 | 01:00 EST

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Fallout 4's Dialogue Wheel - Short Answers That Make No Sense

A great many people seemed to be upset that Fallout 4 was moving away from the more traditional "choose from a list of options" dialogue tree and instead going with a "dialogue wheel" of sorts.…

December 4, 2015 | 01:00 EST

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Fallout 4 is Unacceptable on PC

  It's November, the biggest month of the year for video game releases, especially in the AAA market. Lining up to launch for the holiday seasons, the big guns bring out the huge titles to bear and…

November 18, 2015 | 01:00 EST

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Modders Already Fixing Fallout 4 – A Look into the Modding Scene

  To state the obvious would be to say that Fallout 4 has proven to be launched in a buggy and incomplete state, with the latter largely referring to missing PC-specific features, such as Field of…

November 17, 2015 | 09:00 EST

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18 Things Fallout Shelter Needs To Fix

I want to confess something. A few years ago, all I did for gaming was play Facebook Cow Clickers for about a six-month period. I clicked on castles to make more soldiers. I clicked on turnips to…

October 15, 2015 | 09:00 EDT

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Cooling the Hype – Fallout 4

So this is probably going to get me killed. But alas I hold it as my sacred duty to tell the truth even when I suspect that truth is not wanted—even if others may disagree. I think Fallout 4 right…

June 30, 2015 | 01:00 EDT

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POV: What I Want From Fallout 4

As this year's E3 is steadily approaching, and as Bethesda are preparing for their first ever E3 press conference, RPG fans around the world are holding their breaths. The official announcement of…

April 10, 2015 | 01:00 EDT

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Modding - Fallout 3

One of the greatest aspects of the PC gaming community is the modding scene. The idea of community produced content is something that consoles have dabbled with in games like Little Big Planet but…

December 14, 2014 | 11:00 EST