Fallout 4 News

Fallout 4 meets Red Dead Online: Moonshiners in this Old West settlement

If you're a Fallout 4 fan, you'll probably be aware of The Slog - you know, the RPG game's swimming-pool-turned-tarberry-bog? It's a potential settlement just as-is, but one fan's reimagined the whole location as an "Old West-inspired brewery and moonshine operation" - so, kind of like Red Dead Online's Moonshiners update crossed with a Fallout 4 home base. And ghouls.

Fallout 4 fan Digi-Fu has posted a shot of their creation on the open-world game's subreddit, explaining that they "rebuilt The Slog settlement, drawing inspiration from Old West and pioneer towns in the US". The creator also explains they wanted to "build a brewery with some moonshine stuff" and that "the two made sense together" in the description of a video tour of the base (which you can check out below).

Additionally, given cranberry moonshine is a thing in the Fallout universe (it's a consumable in Fallout 76), the creator says they "would think Fallout settlers would do the same with tarberries" - a cranberry-like fruit found in the wettest, boggiest areas of - well, in The Slog, basically. "Just so folks could survive with good spirit, pun intended", the creator adds.

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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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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

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