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Brother None
May 20, 2011

Fallout 1 & 2 Press Packs

No Mutants Allowed brings us a blast from the past, having procured press packs for Interplay’s Fallout and Fallout 2, giving us a ton of concept art and screenshots from older versions of the game. Check out this old press…

BuckGB
April 5, 2011

The Forgotten Revolution of Fallout

It appears that Sol Invictus has left his post at Hellmode for Gameranx, where he’s posted an editorial entitled “The Forgotten Revolution of Fallout”. In it, he gives us a brief history lesson for Interplay’s original title before proceeding to…

BuckGB
April 5, 2011

10 Video Games That Should Be Made Into Movies

Movie website Anomalous Material has cranked out a list of ten video games they feel should be made into movies, and, surprisingly, both the Baldur’s Gate and Fallout series score mentions alongside BioShock. Their accompanying blurbs: One of the greatest…

BuckGB
March 30, 2011

Five Things We Learned From Fallout

The editors at Joystick Division bring us a list of “Five Things We Learned From Fallout” (the original), including how a big combat-heavy finale is far from a necessity: ‘‹Fallout subverts conventional RPG standards in several senses. Instead of the…

BuckGB
March 8, 2011

Stumping in the Wasteland: On the Politics of Fallout

The political and faction-divided landscape of the post-apocalyptic wasteland, as well as the way the player can influence it, is the subject of this new editorial on Bitmob. A sampling: The narrative threads of every Fallout title can be traced…

Brother None
February 18, 2011

The Very Important List of PC Games, Part 4

The fourth part of Rock Paper Shotgun’s The Very Important List of PC Games (to be read as “games we like”) is absolutely stocked top to bottom with RPGs and MMORPGs. There’s BioShock (Importanceness: Beyond that of the sea), Deus…

Brother None
February 15, 2011

The Art of Video Games

The Smitshonian American Art Museum is setting up an exhibit for video game art/history, wisely constructed over five eras so it won’t be crowded out by just recent games. Consumers even get to vote. It puts RPGs under the “adventure genre”…

Brother None
February 8, 2011

Fallout Games Released on Impulse

Stardock’s Impulse catalogue has been expanded to include all of Interplay’s Fallout titles. They are sold seperately or in a bundle, but as far as I can see the prices are higher than the Good Old Games versions. As such, I’d…

Brother None
January 31, 2011

Brian Fargo Video Interview, Part Three

The third and final part of Matt Barton’s hour-long interview with Interplay founder Brian Fargo focuses on the decline and eventual fall of the company.

BuckGB
January 23, 2011

Brian Fargo Video Interview, Part Two

In the second portion of Matt Barton’s video interview with Interplay founder Brian Fargo, we hear quite a bit about Wasteland’s development, how the lack of rights to do a true Wasteland sequel brought about the Fallout series, how Fallout’s…