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Nexus Mods bans every US political mod until the election is over

The US is heading into its next presidential election, and the process is turning out to be even more insufferable than usual. Now, one of the biggest mod repositories on the internet has announced a ban on all US political themes until the conclusion of the election.

"Recently we have seen a spate of provocative and troll mods being uploaded based around current sociopolitical issues in the United States," Nexus Mods' Dark0ne says in a blog post. Dark0ne says that due to the low quality of the mods in question, the "polarising views they express", and the arguments that have resulted, the team has "decided to wipe our hands clean of this mess and invoke an outright ban on mods relating to sociopolitical issues in the United States."

Any such mods uploaded after September 28 will be removed from the site. "We will review this restriction sometime after the next President of the United States has been inaugurated", Dark0ne says.

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Microsoft will consider buying more game studios in the future

Microsoft has announced its intentions to purchase ZeniMax Media for $7.5 billion. That brings Bethesda, Machine Games, Arkane, id Software, and more storied game developers under the Xbox umbrella, and while it's the biggest acquisition Microsoft's gaming division has yet undertaken, it's probably not the last. Microsoft's CEO hints that the company isn't done with the buyouts yet.

Microsoft will consider buying more videogame developers in the future, Satya Nadella tells CNET. The company's goal is to keep building out the content that it can offer on Xbox and PC through additional internal studios making even more games. "You can't wake up one day and say 'Let me build a game studio'", Nadella says. "The idea of having content is so we can reach larger communities."

Xbox Game Studios has already acquired a number of third-parties over the years, including Bungie in 2000, Rare in 2002 and Mojang in 2014. In 2018, they started a much larger series of acquisitions, and have since bought up Compulsion Games, inXile, Ninja Theory, Obsidian, Playground, Undead Labs, and Double Fine.

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How I became a prisoner of my own Fallout 4 settlement

Look, I'll admit it: I never finished Fallout 4. Before you get all uppity about that, and gather to organise my lynching, know that I did finish Fallout 3. Twice, in fact. Know also that I really tried to finish Fallout 4 (sort of). And be aware that it wasn't my fault that I didn't. After all, how could I when there was still so much work to be done rebuilding Sanctuary Hills?

Sure, the awkward, towering conglomerate of wood and corrugated metal I constructed was nowhere near as cosy as the House of Tomorrow which once stood on the same location - the building that served as my pre-apocalypse domicile - but it was the closest thing I had to a home.

Don't get me wrong: I was relatively concerned about the wellbeing of my kidnapped son, Shaun. And was absolutely kind of mourning Nora, the now murdered spouse I had spent five minutes of wedded bliss with during the game's preamble. But I had bigger questions to answer. Questions like: 'what if I could electrify my base and then decorate it with Christmas tree lights?'

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Fallout 4 gets sand, sea, and sunshine in this new Fallout: Miami mod trailer

Beautiful beaches. Swaying palm trees. A half-eaten, rotten shark surrounded by ghouls, presumably still wearing the same sunglasses they did when the radiation turned them all flakey. Truly, the stuff that unforgettable holiday dreams are made of. A new environmental showcase trailer for the seriously impressive-looking Fallout: Miami mod for Fallout 4 has all of the above, plus drunken bar fights, and some seriously annoyed-looking mutant alligators.

First announced in 2018, the "DLC-sized" mod has been a considerable undertaking, but if the new trailer is anything to go by, it's been well worth the wait. Last year, the team opted to start over with a new world to better optimise the final release. If you're eager for a sample of what that finished result will end up looking like, that early version is still available to download.

Note that you'll need Fallout 4 and every official DLC expansion to run the mod. Once installed, you'll find a bus at the southeastern edge of the Commonwealth which will allow you to access Miami.

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Fallout 4 helped UFC fighter Angela Hill overcome her haters

Escaping into an RPG game like Fallout 4 can be extremely therapeutic. For UFC fighter Angela 'Overkill' Hill, getting lost in Bethesda's nuclear wasteland was vital for shutting out the naysayers as she prepared for her MMA comeback.

Speaking on the Noclip podcast, Hill talks about how Fallout 4 rekindled her love of videogames after being dropped from the UFC, distracting her from online vitriol so she could regroup and move forward. "When I was playing Fallout, and just shutting myself off from the rest of the world and all the naysayers who were saying horrible stuff like 'Angela Hill sucks, she's going to do horrible in Invicta too, she should just quit, she should retire, she's too old to even think about getting back to the UFC'," she says. "All this stuff I'm like 'Why am I looking at this?'. It's never worse than what you tell yourself, but to hear someone else say it always hurts just a little bit more."

After losing her first two fights with the promotion, Hill was dropped from UFC at the tail-end of 2015, right when Fallout 4 first launched. She signed with all-women promotion Invicta soon after, leading to a four-win streak that had her back in the Ultimate Fighting Championship for February 2017. Playing the open-world game helped her find her center, and stop worrying about what her detractors had to say: "Instead of looking at that stuff any more, I was like 'alright I'm done, I'm not going to Google myself, I'm just going to play this game and get really into that.'"

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