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J.E. Sawyer on Fallout Weapons and Weapon Skills

Obsidian Entertainment designer Josh Sawyer has taken to his personal blog to spell out the reasons why he continues to dislike the way weapons and weapon skills are set up in the Fallout series (starting with the original up through…

Interplay vs. Bethesda, Finalized?

If this report over at Duck and Cover is to be believed, Interplay and Bethesda have actually reached a settlement to their long-running legal dispute over the rights to the Fallout franchise. Apparently a formal announcement will be incoming later…

Fallout Franchise Video Interview, Part Two

After a first part mostly focused on the Nuka Break web series, The Game Creators Vault offers the second part of their exclusive Obsidian interview with Chris Avellone and Tim Cain from Obsidian Entertainment and Zack Finrock and Vince Talenti…

Fallout Franchise Video Interview, Part One

In an interesting fans-meet-creators moment, The Game Creators Vault has put together Zack Finrock and Vince Talenti, the guys behind the Nuka Break fan video shorts based on the Fallout franchise and Obsidian Entertainment’s Chris Avellone and Tim Cain, the…

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…

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…

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…

GamesRadar’s History of Fallout

If you’re still waiting for your copy of Fallout: New Vegas to be delivered, you can spend some quality time reading through GamesRadar’s three-page history of the Fallout series. The text is pretty good, but it’s obvious that they scoured…

The History of Fallout

With Fallout: New Vegas on the horizon, IGN has republished their eight-page history of the Fallout series, though they’ve obviously included some updates since the last time we read it. An enjoyable read, in any event: In 1994, RPG guru…