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The Science of Fallout

GameTrailers TV is hosting a potentially fun featurette in another four-minute “Science of” video with physicist Dr. Michio Kaku. In the spotlight this time around? Fallout. It doesn’t work so much because apparently nobody tipped them off that Fallout is retro-50s…

IGN’s Top 25 Modern PC Games

I haven’t linked a “top” list in quite awhile, so I thought I’d take advantage of a lazy Sunday to point out IGN’s new “Top 25 Modern PC Games” feature that places The Witcher at #24, Diablo II at #19,…

Content, Not Visuals, Make a New Game

PC Gamer’s Dan Stapleton has a short editorial on the “looks like a mod” complaint for sequels that keep significant assets from the original, using Fallout: New Vegas to Fallout 3, Fallout 2 to Fallout, and Knights of the Old…

How Fallout Taught Me to Survive the Apocalypse

One of GameZone’s more paranoid authors has editorialized about some of the excellent post-nuclear survival tips he’s picked up from playing the Fallout titles. If your silhouette doesn’t get etched into the remains of a building, you’ll probably have to…

Bethesda Softworks Opens Benelux Office

Bethesda Softworks hit us up with a press release this morning announcing that they’ve continued their plan for global domination by opening up another office in Eindhoven, The Netherlands.  I really don’t see why they’d be opening up so many international offices unless…

Inon Zur Video Interview

GameSpot is hosting a nearly twelve-minute video interview with Inon Zur, the popular video game composer who’s scored many role-playing titles, including Baldur’s Gate II: Throne of Bhaal, Icewind Dale II, Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age: Origins – Awakening, Neverwinter…

Golden Joystick Awards RPG “Shortlist” Video

The 2010 Golden Joystick Awards are just around the corner, and members of the community are being asked to start casting their votes. To help us decide which role-playing game deserves top honors, they’ve even put together a video that…

Todd Howard Interview

Eurogamer managed to corner Bethesda’s Todd Howard during QuakeCon for a three-page interview about Fallout: New Vegas, their acquisition of Arkane Studios, their collaborations with id Software, the unannounced projects they’re working on at the moment, and more. Eurogamer: You’ve…

Fallout 3 Game of the Year Edition For $25

Steam’s series of QuakeCon sales continues with Fallout 3 Game of the Year Edition being slashed by 50% to $24.99 for the next 24 hours. Considering that I probably paid more than that for the DLC alone, that’s a pretty…

Why There Are No Ladders in Bethesda’s RPGs

IGN sat in on a QuakeCon panel discussion hosted by Bethesda’s Todd Howard, during which the designer explained why ladders have never made an appearance in The Elder Scrolls series, Fallout 3, or Fallout: New Vegas. “Play our game; find…