Fallout: New Vegas News

We all love the excitement of a new launch, but coming to a great game after the fact might be even better. You can pick them up cheaply, often with all the DLC included, and they're much more likely to run smoothly with any major bugs ironed out. Right now, the two best Fallout games are heading up a bundle that includes more apocalyptic favorites such as Frostpunk and Wolfenstein, along with plenty of other excellent games. This 'special editions bundle' from Fanatical gives you the choice of what you want, and you'll get them all on Steam in their most complete forms for as low as $3 per game if you buy enough.

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We all love the excitement of a new launch, but coming to a great game after the fact might be even better. You can pick them up cheaply, often with all the DLC included, and they're much more likely to run smoothly with any major bugs ironed out. Right now, the two best Fallout games are heading up a bundle that includes more apocalyptic favorites such as Frostpunk and Wolfenstein, along with plenty of other excellent games. This 'special editions bundle' from Fanatical gives you the choice of what you want, and you'll get them all on Steam in their most complete forms for as low as $3 per game if you buy enough.

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Fallout fans have been staging an annual community get-together in the real-life town of Goodsprings for a few years now, with help from the owner of the Pioneer Saloon, as a celebration of Fallout: New Vegas day. 2024's edition looks to have been a good time, with lots of cosplayers having made their way out to Nevada, so they can roleplay as anything from an NCR ranger to Todd Howard.

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Nevermind being the best Fallout game of all time - Fallout New Vegas is one of the greatest PC games ever. Funny, open, unique, and endlessly replayable, it's also tightly written, has some of the series' best quests, and boasts a visual style you can recognize from a mile away, even 14 years later. Combine that with Frostpunk, the brutal, survivalistic strategy game, shortly due a sequel courtesy of Frostpunk 2, and Dusk, the loving boomer shooter homage that evokes the spirit of Doom and Half-Life, and you've got some of the best games of the last two decades. There's more on offer - you can pick whatever you like - but whatever you choose, this new $3 Fanatical bundle is definitely worth your time.

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Is Fallout supposed to make you think about society? I'd argue that, at its best, it is, with capitalism being an obvious candidate to explore, given the mainline series' unflinchingly corporate American atomic age-inspired setting and the whole resource war that led up to the bombs being dropped. Though, according to co-creator Tim Cain, that isn't the central crux of Fallout theme-wise.

The veteran developer has said as much in a comment (thanks, PC Gamer) on the latest video posted to his YouTube channel - which I'd definitely reccomend checking to pretty much anyone who's interested in games and how they get made - as part of a response to a fan asking for his thoughts on reading Fallout "as a critique on capitalist/corporative greed (Vault-Tec and others) and on excessive militarization".

"Critique of capitalism was never the point of Fallout," Cain wrote, "In fact, the game went out of its way to mention that other countries like China were also behaving terribly. If anything, Fallout is a comment that war is inevitable given basic human nature." So yep, the whole war never changes line that, rather ironically, is more of a corporate slogan than anything else nowadays.

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