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What If… Chris Avellone Wrote Everything?

Chris Avellone has always been a very popular designer and writer, and also one that never shied from offering his contributions to a project, though this has never been more evident than now that Kickstarter is popular and he has…

Fallout Monopoly Announced

Through a tweet on the official Fallout franchise account, Bethesda has announce the release of a Fallout-themed Monopoly. While fans have already provided their takes on a Fallout Monopoly (for example this New Vegas-themed one), this is the first official…

IGN Ranks the Fallout Games

IGN’s executive editor of reviews Dan Stapleton has rated all the Fallout games, including the spin-offs, from worst to best. I’ve seen more than a few raging debates on the merits of Fallout versus its sequel and Fallout 3 versus…

Fallout Anthology Announced

Bethesda has just announced Fallout Anthology, a collection of all the Fallout games released for PC from Fallout to Fallout: New Vegas. This collection comes in a box shaped after one of Fallout 3’s mini nukes and will be released…

Why Fallout is the Best Nuclear War Story Ever Told

A fascinating piece on Medium describes not only why the Fallout universe is so compelling for many of us from a gameplay perspective, but also where the series’ art style, humorous-yet-deadly-serious propaganda, and overall 1950s-era vibe we take in during the…

Top 10 Reasons Why IGN Loves Fallout

We all have our reasons for being in love with – or at the very least enthralled by – the Fallout franchise, whether it be due to its interesting characters, character perks and SPECIAL system, realistic non-fantasy premise, treat-you-like-you’re-an-adult content,…

Fallout Series Retrospectives

With the announcement of Fallout 4 from Bethesda, games journalists from PC Gamer and Eurogamer have decided to dig back into the past and produce a couple of retrospectives on the venerable RPG series. PC Gamer focuses mostly on the…

Chris Avellone Leaves Obsidian Entertainment

While I have to admit, I am not completely surprised, this is still shocking news: Obsidian’s co-founder and co-owner Chris Avellone, known for his work on Planescape: Torment, Fallout 2 and Fallout: New Vegas and its DLC among others, has…