For Fallout 76, the next iteration of the Fallout franchise, Bethesda is trying something new: going online. It’s an exciting idea and a new one for the franchise, but not everyone is super keen on the idea of Fallout going multiplayer. Bethesda is offering some compromises in this realm, but people continue to prod the publisher about whether the game might go offline. Now, Bethesda’s...
There are so many big games coming this fall, it’s hard to keep track of all of them. For a second, I forgot about Fallout 76 because I’m so focused on Spider-Man and Red Dead Redemption 2. But Fallout 76, Bethesda’s first triple-A venture into the multiplayer space, releases this November for PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. If you’re looking for it on PC, though, you might have to do...
Fallout 76 debuted last week when Bethesda ran an overnight livestream ending in the debut of the first trailer for the game. Unfortunately, that trailer didn’t tell us a thing about the game – other than that it existed. Now, we have our first info to chew that tells us what we’re going to play, and a look at the game itself. Fallout 76 is entirely online – but it’s not an MMO....
Late last week, a rumor slipped out that game developer Bethesda was working on a Game of Thrones game. The support for that rumor was pretty shaky, and now Target has quashed it altogether. While this rumor has been floating around for a little bit, the spark behind this latest go-round was the appearance of an apparent product page on Target’s website. A Target spokesperson said in a...
One of the biggest moments of Bethesda's E3 2017 press conference wasn't the introduction of a video game, but rather, the introduction of a new, officially backed mod community, Creation Club. It's a simple name for an idea that stumbles into a very complex issue in the gaming world, one in which the creators of mods have the option of making money off of their creations. The system...
After Microsoft’s snoozefest, which kicked off at 6:00 am my time so it might have been half my fault, I was beginning to think that nothing could salvage my E3 2017 experience. Bethesda has usually brought along competent games to the show, like Fallout 4, DOOM, and Dishonored 2, but to date, it has done a poor job of dressing them up properly and putting on an exciting show. It didn’...
If you picked up Prey on PlayStation 4, you might have noticed a logo on the box promising PlayStation 4 Pro support. If you dug around though, you would’ve found, like the team at Digital Foundry, that said support was no where to be found. For Prey, owning a PlayStation 4 Pro added nothing to the experience – until now. Thanks to Prey‘s 1.04 update, the game now sports some...
Video games in the 1990s looked very different depending on where you were coming from. If you were firmly embedded in the console side of things, they were bright and crisp, often populated with memorable, colorful characters that fit the 16-bit palette of the first half the decade so well. On the PC side of things, strategy fans saw the RTS genre lean often toward science fiction and...
E3 2017 is just around the corner, and that means Bethesda's E3 show is, as well. The company has been on a roll the last few years, revealing big games each year and delivering on them before the next E3. Bethesda's marketing boss Pete Hines tweeted out an adorable image on Friday made up to look like an amusement park map giving us an idea of what we can expect to see at this year's...
Todd Howard is pretty good at making games. After Oblivion, Skyrim, and two Fallout games, that’s a huge understatement. Each game has been well-received by fans and critics alike in addition to being hugely successful for his studio, Bethesda Softworks, and publisher ZeniMax. So when he says something, we tend to sit up and listen. Speaking to Polygon in an interview alongside his...