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The Complete History of Fallout

If you’d like to reminisce about the long-running Fallout series and also enjoy having your facts all neatly arranged in one place, you should check out this massive PC Gamer retrospective that covers every Fallout game to date, lists a…

Colin McComb Interview

Colin McComb, a veteran video game writer and RPG designer who worked on Dungeons & Dragons, Fallout 2, and Torment: Tides of Numenera among other things, recently had a chat with PCGamesN, talking about the differences between writing for a…

Fallout – Major Events Timeline

As a young lad who liked to shoot monsters in the eyes first and ask questions later, for a good while I kind of just assumed that in Fallout’s universe the nuclear bombs dropped around the 1960s, cementing the series’…

GOG Video Documentary – Preserving Gaming’s Past & Future

While not explicitly RPG-related, the new Noclip documentary is dedicated to GOG’s ongoing video game-preserving efforts, and it does feature a good deal of RPG footage and anecdotes. The documentary tells us about the company’s humble origins, the work they…

The Five Best Years in PC Gaming History

PC Gamer has listed what they feel are the “top 5” best years for PC gaming, and while I don’t think they go back far enough (1985 was a crazy good year for adventure and RPG fans, in particular), the…

Good Side Quest Design – Rules and Examples

Side quests are a pretty important part of roleplaying games. Depending on how well they’re designed, side quests can make any game memorable or boring. But how does one create the former and not the latter? Gamasutra reached out to…

How Fallout 2’s Wild Wasteland Came to Define a Series

The folks at PCGamesN have recently covered the making of the original Fallout, and now we can also read an article of theirs that’s focused on the peculiarities of Fallout 2’s development that have resulted in a wasteland full of…

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…