In Real Life

Great Moments In Video Game Humour: Fallout Talks To You Like You’re Stupid

Since the early days of the RPG, role-playing video games have allowed players to sacrifice intelligence points to further some more important statistic. Fallout is one of the only ones that treats you like the moron you’ve made.


March 9, 2012
Retro

Fallout Could’ve Been About Time-Traveling, Dinosaurs, And Monkey Murder

The original Fallout was a gamble that paid off big-time; it set in place a tone, gameplay philosophy and fiction that is still going strong today. Fallout games are best known for their evocative, funny, dark and violent post-apocalyptic world. But it could have been another kind of game entirely.


January 10, 2012
News

The Great Fallout Legal Battle Ends Without A Fallout MMO

As reported last week, the legal battle between Bethesda and Interplay over the final fate of a massively multiplayer online Fallout game has ended in a settlement, one that leaves full control of Fallout intellectual properties in the hands of Bethesda.


January 3, 2012
News

The Great Fallout Legal Battle Is Over

The legal stoush between Bethesda and Interplay over the rights to certain aspects of the Fallout universe, which has been dragging on for years, has finally been settled, according to a report on Fallout fansite Duck & Cover.


September 9, 2011
PC

The One Star Trek Game Every Star Trek Fan Should Play

On September 8, Star Trek turned 45 years old. Happy Birthday, Star Trek! Even though I hate you and your cheap-ass sets and lame vision of the future and hammy plots and silly aliens and…


May 31, 2011
News

The Fallout MMO Might Not Survive The Coming Apocalypse

The Fallout MMO, which has been chugging along for a while now with seemingly little progress made, is now in danger of going under completely as the game’s developers stare down the barrel of a rusty, post-apocalyptic gun.


March 20, 2011
In Real Life

See The Story Treatment For The Aborted Fallout Movie

In 1998, a year after Fallout released and became a smash hit on the PC, the game’s publisher formed a films division intending to develop its properties into movies. One of those was to be Fallout. The story treatment for that film has been found.


March 4, 2011
PC

The Making Of ‘Out Of This World’ And The Infinite Fax Attack

Eric Chahi, the creator of moody landmark adventure game Out of This World (aka Another World), once fought with his publisher, Interplay, via fax machine. Things got so bad at one point he attacked Interplay’s offices with the dreaded “infinite fax”.


December 24, 2010
PC

Fallout MMO Might Need To Duck & Cover

For over a year now, two companies have slugged it out in the courts, battling over the past – and in some cases future – of the Fallout franchise. This month, that battle took a slightly ridiculous turn.


June 26, 2010
News

MDK2 To Make A Killing On WiiWare, PC This ‘Winter’

The latest Interplay game to make the leap to Nintendo’s WiiWare service is MDK2, BioWare’s shooter from the year 2000, joining other WiiWare-bound re-releases like Clayfighter and Descent. But that’s not all Interplay and developer Beamdog have in store.