Fallout: New Vegas

20 Years of Fallout

On the eve of Fallout 4’s launch, Gamasutra is offering up a two-page “20 Years of Fallout: Lessons Learned Shipping Games in the Wasteland” feature that provides a quick history lesson regarding the Fallout franchise while also sporting recent and…

Eight of the Greatest RPG Franchises of All Time

Mass Effect, Fallout, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Pokemon, Baldur’s Gate, Final Fantasy, Ultima, and The Elder Scrolls round off The Escapist’s list of “The Greatest RPG Franchises of All Time”. There are some glaring absences, but I…

Fallout Anthology Now Available

Bethesda Softworks fired over a press release today announcing that they’ve released their Fallout Anthology collection here in North America today, with plans to bring it to our European friends later this week on Friday, October 2nd.  I think there’s a…

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…

Josh Sawyer on The White March, Fallout: New Vegas, and More

Obsidian Entertainment’s Josh Sawyer sat down with PC Gamer at PAX Prime for a nearly seven-minute video interview about Pillars of Eternity’s two-part The White March expansion pack, development ideas that never made it into Fallout: New Vegas, similarities between Alpha Protocol…

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…

The Murky Genius of Fallout: New Vegas

Eurogamer’s Tony Coles has penned an editorial on Fallout: New Vegas in which he argues that Obsidian’s spin-off trascended the Bethesda title it’s based on thanks to its murkier moral and ethical dilemmas and its thematical maturity. Interestingly, considering the…

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…