Fallout 4 News

Did aliens drop the first nuke in Fallout's great war? The game's co-creator reveals all

If you’ve ever wondered which side set off the nuke that turned the Fallout universe’s conflict between the US and China from a cold war into a very, very hot one, Tim Cain, co-creator of the original RPG, has provided an answer.

It was China.

Yup. No big revelation that the American government was actually the one to succumb to the pressures of mutually assured destruction and doom hordes of its future citizens to irradiated lives. No conspiracies involving Vault-Tec or, god forbid, the aliens that we know have been monitoring Earth in the Fallout universe for a good while thanks to Fallout 3’s Mothership Zeta DLC. Just China.

Speedrunning is a catch-all term that, as games themselves have grown in audience and scale, now applies to everything from fastest completion times on 2D platformers to slightly unhinged self-imposed challenges with any game going. This Fallout 4 speedrun certainly falls into the latter category, to the extent you may find yourself wondering how the heroic Vrexia ever came up with the idea in the first place...
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Fallout 4 mod feels like an entire mini DLC, with new quests

I've got yet another excellent Fallout 4 mod for you, and it turns the scavs into an entire faction with quests, voiced NPCs, new guns and apparel, and so much more. The breadth of this mod almost makes it feel like a Bethesda mini-DLC, and it's got the quality to back that up.

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Amazon's Fallout TV show now has a concrete release date, so get your Geiger counter ready

Dust off your hazmat suit and gulp down some Rad-X, because it’s now been revealed that Amazon Prime’s Fallout TV show will arrive in April next year.

The announcement came via a teaser posted to Twitter by the series’ official account and seemingly confirms April 12, 2024 as the date when the series, or at least its first episode, will debut. Veteran wastelanders will recognise the clip as using a shot of a Pip-Boy’s boot-up sequence to convey this message.

Tucked away within the lines of green text that scroll across the device’s screen before it reaches its main menu and shows off the release date are a couple of extra little details, including a stylised mention of the word Kilter, likely an allusion to Kilter Films, the series’ production company.

The Fallout series is no stranger to mods that turn the Bethesda RPG games into entirely new experiences, and I'm seriously impressed with what modders continue to do to Fallout 4. This trend continues even in 2023, as if you own both games you can now port the entire New Vegas map into the Commonwealth, and it looks stunning.