Fallout: New Vegas

Fallout: New Vegas Retrospective

Kotaku has been recently posting a series of retrospective articles on Obsidian Entertainment’s quasi-sequel to Fallout 3, Fallout: New Vegas, which so far has focused on various aspects of the title while seemingly not following a particular direction. Here’s a…

How Obsidian Expanded the Fallout: New Vegas Universe

Polygon has a write-up from Chris Avellone’s recent GDC Online panel on Fallout: New Vegas’ DLC, which describes how Obsidian “expanded the Fallout: New Vegas universe with 100,000 lines of dialogue”. Here’s a snip: The studio had to streamline the…

How to Write Fallout: New Vegas DLC

Joystiq has put online a brief transcript of a talk Obsidian’s Chris Avellone gave at the recent GDC Online, focused specifically on the writing of Fallout: New Vegas’ downloable content packs. People who have followed Avellone’s thoughts on the subject…

State of Decay/Fallout: New Vegas/Alpha Protocol Q&A

GameCritics’ Brad Gallaway has conjured up an article-style interview he conducted with writer Travis Stout during this year’s PAX Prime event, and it’s certainly worth your time since Travis worked on Fallout: New Vegas and Alpha Protocol at Obsidian Entertainment…

Fallout Setting Editorial, Part Two

After arguing that a Boston setting doesn’t fit the Fallout series in its first piece, the California Literary Review’s videogame blog doubles the editorial dose with a second write-up. It consists of a series of suggestion for an alternative location…

Fallout: Lanius Interview

AusGamers had the opportunity to chat up Encryption Films’ Wade K. Savage, during which the Fallout: Lanius director and creator discusses the team’s future plans for the fan film, the competition they face elsewhere in the wasteland, the difficulty they’ve…

Fallout Setting Editorial

California Literary Review’s videogame blog has an editorial about Fallout’s setting, its Western/Frontier fee,l and why Boston (the rumored setting for Fallout 4) is the wrong place to set a Fallout game.  Read on, post-nuclear fans: All the hallmarks of…

Still Playing: Fallout: New Vegas

It doesn’t look like EDGE’s Tont Coles is interested in finishing Fallout: New Vegas anytime soon, judging by this recent “Still Playing” editorial penned by him, but that shouldn’t be necessarily taken as criticism for the title, as apparently it’s…

Tim Cain Retrospective Interview

The RPG Codex is offering a rather excellent retrospective interview with ex-Interplay/Troika veteran Tim Cain, who is currently working as a senior programmer on Obsidian Entertainment’s South Park: The Stick of Truth. The interview touches on about every subjects you’d…