Fallout

IGN Ranks the Fallout Games

IGN’s executive editor of reviews Dan Stapleton has rated all the Fallout games, including the spin-offs, from worst to best. I’ve seen more than a few raging debates on the merits of Fallout versus its sequel and Fallout 3 versus…

Fallout Anthology Announced

Bethesda has just announced Fallout Anthology, a collection of all the Fallout games released for PC from Fallout to Fallout: New Vegas. This collection comes in a box shaped after one of Fallout 3’s mini nukes and will be released…

Why Fallout is the Best Nuclear War Story Ever Told

A fascinating piece on Medium describes not only why the Fallout universe is so compelling for many of us from a gameplay perspective, but also where the series’ art style, humorous-yet-deadly-serious propaganda, and overall 1950s-era vibe we take in during the…

Top 10 Reasons Why IGN Loves Fallout

We all have our reasons for being in love with – or at the very least enthralled by – the Fallout franchise, whether it be due to its interesting characters, character perks and SPECIAL system, realistic non-fantasy premise, treat-you-like-you’re-an-adult content,…

Fallout Series Retrospectives

With the announcement of Fallout 4 from Bethesda, games journalists from PC Gamer and Eurogamer have decided to dig back into the past and produce a couple of retrospectives on the venerable RPG series. PC Gamer focuses mostly on the…

Playing Roles: The Etymology of RPGs, Part Two

Continuing on from the first segment of his historical CRPG piece, TechRaptor’s Robert Grosso has brought us part two of “Playing Roles: The Etymology of RPGs”, which treads into development territory spanning the late 1980s to the early 2000s. Reading…

Kotaku Ranks the Fallout Series from Best to Worst

While there is no mention of Fallout Tactics, Van Buren, or even Interplay’s forgettable action RPG, Kotaku has ranked the four “core” Fallout titles in order from what they feel is the best entry to the worst entry. I can’t…

Moving in Video Games: Fallout and Skyrim

In what has to be one of the oddest editorial series I’ve ever stumbled upon, a moving website called “The Movers” has written about the intricacies of crossing the landscape and moving to a new home as it applies to…

Feargus Urquhart Video Interview, Part Two

Matt Barton has published the second half of his interview with Obsidian Entertainment CEO Feargus Urquhart. While the first part mostly dealt with Obsidian’s own history and their upcoming Kickstarter project, Pillars of Eternity, this video focuses almost entirely on…

Fallout, Fallout 2, and Fallout Tactics Re-released

Bethesda Softworks has announced that Fallout, Fallout 2, and Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel have returned to Steam, and they now include support for Steam Cloud-enabled save games, the original and higher resolutions, and more. Word is: Your favorite Fallout…