VideoWatch: The making of Fallout 1 & 2
Tales from the early days of Black Isle Studios.
Last month, Bertie and I visited Obsidian Entertainment to take a wander around the place and talk about some of the remarkable games they've helped create.
Fallout 2
Here's a thing.
When you weren't trying to save your village in Fallout 2, you might have dabbled in a little extracurricular activity. That's cool, I'm not here to judge. Crack on.
VideoWatch: Fallout 4 - your guide to the nuclear apocalypse
Let's get started RadAway.
When Skyrim launched just shy of four years ago, it attracted a lot of people who had never touched an Elder Scrolls game before. I was one of them, in fact. Given the amount of muscle Bethesda has thrown into the marketing, it's highly likely Fallout 4 will do the same.
A Beginner's Guide to the world of Fallout
War, war never changes.
With Fallout 4 due out in a couple of weeks, millions of people are set to leap into the post-apocalyptic open world Bethesda has spent the last few years crafting.
Fallout Anthology brings five classic RPGs to Europe in October
A limited run PC-exclusive.
The Fallout Anthology has just been announced, grouping five beloved post-apocalyptic RPGs together for the first time.
War. War changes quite a lot.
After years of waiting and false hopes, Bethesda has finally announced Fallout 4. It's as good an excuse as any to take a trip through time to where it all began, in a very different kind, but now much more familiar kind of Wasteland. This was back in 1988, on technology so primitive that most of the original's game text had to be printed in a manual, with the game simply giving a number to look up every time anything happened. Nevertheless, it found almost instant critical and commercial success... and immense difficulty getting a sequel off the ground. At least, an official one.
Wasteland developer inXile trademarks Van Buren and Meantime
Sets Fallout fans' tongues wagging.
With Wasteland 2 out now and Torment: Tides of Numenera in full production, developer inXile Entertainmen appears to be looking to the future.
Original Fallout games arrive on Steam priced £3.99 each
Those GOG gave for free before it had to remove them.
They were removed from GOG at the end of 2013, but now Fallout 1, 2 and Tactics are reinstated... on Steam.
What does Fallout: New Vegas' lead designer want from Fallout 4?
But don't expect an announcement any time soon, Bethesda says.
It's been more than a year since Skyrim developer Bethesda Game Studios moved wholesale onto its "next major project", which we expect to be Fallout 4. The game was in pre-production while Skyrim DLC rolled out, and in April 2013 was declared ready for the team's "full attention".
Bethesda working to reinstate old Fallout games on Steam
But what about GOG?
Fallout fell out of retro-game-download-shop Good Old Games' hands at the end of the year because it was no longer old licensor Interplay's to give away. Bethesda's the boss now.
GOG Winter Sale gives Fallout 1, 2 & Tactics free
Fa la la la la, la f**ing jingle bells!
How's this for a freebie? GOG's Winter Sale is dishing out Fallout 1, 2 & Tactics for free from now until Saturday (14th) at 2pm UK time.
Planescape: Torment producer Guido Henkel working on a new RPG called Deathfire
First-person, party-based, "stepped" and real-time.
Guido Henkel, the man whose masked face dominates the Planescape: Torment box art, is working on a new role-playing game called Deathfire.
Fallout TV show in the works - rumour
Bethesda trademarks "an on-going television program set in a post-nuclear apocalyptic world." Hmm...
Fallout publisher Bethesda Softworks has registered a trademark with the United States Patent and Trademark Office for "an on-going television program set in a post-nuclear apocalyptic world."
New Black Isle intends to make triple-A RPGs based on Interplay's IP
"It really feels like getting the band back together."
The newly resurrected Black Isle Studios intends to make triple-A role-playing games based on Interplay's intellectual property, it's said.
Interplay appears to be resurrecting Black Isle Studios
"Our goal has always been to make the world's best RPGs. Black Isle Studios is back."
Update: Former Black Isle lead designer Chris Avellone has given Eurogamer his take on the news.
Eurogamer chats with newest Wasteland 2 recruit: Planescape: Torment's Colin McComb
"I don't think I can do justice to my feelings without slipping into purely joyful profanity."
Kickstarter darling Wasteland 2 has attracted more mouth-watering talent - game designer, writer and author Colin McComb, who played a pivotal role making revered RPG Planescape: Torment. He also worked on Fallout 2.
Fallout developers Tim Cain and Chris Avellone will help write the Nuka Break web show if its kickstarter raises $120,000.
Interplay's Fallout MMO on the ropes
As Bethesda attempts to terminate deal.
Interplay's Fallout MMO may never see the light of day as Bethesda attempts to terminate the licensing agreement with a lawsuit filed last week.
GOG.com anniversary promo tomorrow
Interplay doing buy one get one free deal.
GOG.com (good old games) turns one tomorrow and will celebrate by offering a free Interplay game for every Interplay game purchased. In other words: buy one, get one free.
Fallout, Kingpin, Sacrifice on Steam
Interplay offers golden oldies.
Interplay classics Fallout, Fallout 2, Fallout Tactics, Kingpin and Sacrifice have been added to Steam.
How the original games caused a quiet revolution.
When Fallout 3 was announced, the widespread joy at the resurrection of a beloved and largely forgotten series by a developer of as much established talent as Bethesda was huge. But it was matched by an equally fierce backlash from one of the most notoriously fanatical, difficult-to-please fanbases in the gaming world. Most Fallout fans were adamant that the series ought to be left alone, that the limited technology that the games were built upon was an integral part of what Fallout was, and that any attempt to modernise the series could only result in the bastardisation of one of the most fondly-remembered game universes in the history of the medium.