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Val Hull
July 3, 2018

Fallout Retrospective

If you’re in the mood for some nostalgia, you may want to check out this PC Gamer retrospective that looks back at Fallout, Interplay’s iconic post nuclear role playing game with its open-ended freedom to fail and its off-beat retro-futuristic…

Val Hull
June 1, 2018

Josh Sawyer, Swen Vincke, and Robert Kurvitz on the Future of CRPGs

Yesterday, we got a chance to check out a Kotaku UK article where Chris Avellone and George Ziets talked about the evolution of the RPG genre over the years. And today, over at PC Gamer, Josh Sawyer, Swen Vincke, and…

Val Hull
April 13, 2018

The Best and Worst Boss Fights in PC Gaming

Boss fights are not a thing exclusive to RPGs, but reading this list of great and awful boss fights brought to us by PC Gamer’s editors, it becomes apparent that RPGs do have some of the most memorable bosses in…

Val Hull
February 5, 2018

Leonard Boyarsky Interview, Part 3 – Matt Chat

In the third and final installment of his chat with Matt Barton, Leonard Boyarsky talks about his days at Troika Games and all the issues Arcanum, Vampire: Bloodlines, and The Temple of Elemental Evil had to overcome in order to…

Val Hull
January 28, 2018

Leonard Boyarsky Interview, Part 2 – Matt Chat

The second part of Matt Barton’s Matt Chat with Leonard Boyarsky is up. This insightful video interview covers Fallout’s journey from a Mad Max-styled GURPS game to a uniquely retro-futuristic thing of its own, the impact it had on popularizing…

Val Hull
January 22, 2018

Leonard Boyarsky Interview, Part 1 – Matt Chat

The latest episode of Matt Barton’s Matt Chat video interview series features Leonard Boyarsky, the veteran game designer who came up with Fallout’s iconic Vault Boy and is currently working at Obsidian Entertainment on the mysterious Project Indiana, together with…

Val Hull
November 1, 2017

How Brian Fargo Kept InXile Alive

From being the king of cRPGs during his Interplay days, to leading the vanguard of the RPG Renaissance at the helm of inXile, it’s hard to overstate Brian Fargo’s impact on the spreadsheet and story corner of the video games…

Val Hull
October 1, 2017

How Did Fallout 1 Ever Get Made?

Coinciding with the 20th anniversary of the series, the folks over at PCGamesN have spoken to the masterminds behind the original Fallout about the making of this legendary RPG. As a result, we’re treated to a story of how a…

Val Hull
September 30, 2017

Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game Free on Steam For a Limited Time

If you, for some reason, still don’t own Interplay’s original Fallout game that kicked off the legendary RPG series back in 1997, you can now pick it up for free on Steam, and finally experience what is, in my opinion,…

BuckGB
September 12, 2017

The Making of Fallout and Fallout 2

Although Black Isle Studios’ original Fallout and Fallout 2 have become forever planted in video game history – as well as our brains’ long-term memory – there are still many interesting stories and anecdotes to be gleaned every time we…