Fallout

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Every Fallout game and DLC on Steam for $77 in live sale

Every Fallout game is on sale on Steam right now, and you can buy the whole series—including the black sheep Fallout Tactics—along with a boatload of DLC for $77, thanks to a live Steam sale. The series spans very different entries: the original two Fallout games are top-down,

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Pluribus and Fallout both imagine peace built by erasing free will

Apple TV's Pluribus and Prime Video's Fallout — two of the most popular sci‑fi series on streaming — share a chilling connection: both depict systems that promise peace by eliminating individuality. Pluribus is listed with a release date of November 6, 2025, while Fallout is the hit

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Fallout season 2 leans into messy family ties between Lucy and Hank

Amazon’s Fallout season 2 centers on Lucy MacLean (Ella Purnell) as she attempts to find and stop her father Hank MacLean (Kyle MacLachlan), who is running horrific mind-control experiments in a laboratory in New Vegas — a conflict that drives her storyline across the season. Polygon notes that fraught family

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Fallout Season 1 free on Amazon’s YouTube — all 8 up by Jan. 31, removed Feb. 11

Kotaku reports Amazon Prime’s official YouTube channels worldwide have added the first two episodes of Fallout season 1 to watch for free, with more episodes arriving over the next few days. The release schedule puts the first two episodes online now, then another two added each day until all

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Fallout co-creator Tim Cain returns to Obsidian full time, says remote work 'isn't all sunshine'

Fallout co-creator Tim Cain has left semi-retirement and is now back in California working full-time for Obsidian, the studio behind The Outer Worlds, he says in a recent YouTube video. Cain describes the five-year period between June 2020 and December 2025 as a time of semi-retirement when he worked as

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Fallout S2 Ep.7 Uses Canada Jabs to Reframe Steph Harper's Backstory

According to MovieWeb, Season 2, Episode 7 of Amazon Prime Video’s Fallout, titled "The Handoff," leans into pointed jokes about Canada and Canadian–U.S. relations while revealing more of Steph Harper’s origin story. The episode’s cold open establishes Steph’s Canadian roots—she’s

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Prime Video confirms 'Fallout' Season 3 — writing underway, filming set for May 2026

Prime Video renewed Fallout for a third season in May 2025, and the show’s creative team says writing is underway; Production List reports Season 3 will begin filming in May 2026 in Santa Clarita, California. Executive producer Jonathan Nolan told IGN in December that “we're hoping to

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Fallout showrunner: New Vegas ending in season 2 won't overwrite the game's other endings

Prime Video’s live-action Fallout series has spent time in New Vegas as part of season 2 and has enshrined a specific New Vegas ending as canon for the show. New Vegas, the setting of the sixth game in the Fallout franchise, offers a multitude of possible endings in the

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Tim Cain says he worked 70+ hour weeks on original Fallout because they loved it

Fallout co-creator Tim Cain said in a video on his official YouTube channel that he and his team at Interplay regularly worked more than 70 hours a week while making the original Fallout. Cain described a typical day as waking around 6am, feeding his cat, then arriving at the office

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Fallout series finally shows the long-running 'Last President' — played by Clancy Brown

Major spoilers for Fallout Season 2 Episode 7: the TV series finally lets viewers meet the Last President of the United States in person, portrayed on-screen by actor Clancy Brown. Brown is a prolific videogame voice actor, and one of his earliest videogame roles was Rhombus, a Brotherhood of Steel

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Fallout season 2’s golf-cart scene reignites debate over drivable cars in games

In Fallout season 2 episode 7 on Prime Video, a brief scene of Hank MacClean and his daughter Lucy taking a golf cart prompted renewed discussion about whether future Fallout games should include drivable vehicles, Polygon reported on Jan. 28, 2026. In the episode, Hank — who has been using the

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Modiphius’ solo Fallout RPG Wasteland Wanderer — PDF out, physical book due April 2026

Modiphius has released Fallout: Wasteland Wanderer, a solo tabletop RPG PDF available now from the Modiphius store, with the physical book available for pre-order ahead of a planned April 2026 launch. The book is designed to be played without a gamemaster or a party — just the rulebook, dice, a pen

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Fallout season 2 appears to make one New Vegas ending canon

Gamesradar reports the Prime Video series Fallout season 2 appears to have made a single New Vegas ending canon, contrary to what the showrunners were saying before release. Spoilers for Fallout season 2, episode 7 follow. The piece notes the Legion and New California Republic aren't exactly in

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Fallout season 2 episode 7 opens Hank’s mainframe to an unexpected discovery

Gamesradar reports that Fallout season 2, episode 7 finally revealed what lay behind the square-shaped mainframe door in Hank's Vault-Tec testing facility. The episode's answer was not what was expected and was presented as having likely far-reaching implications for the season 2 finale and beyond. It

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Amazon moves Fallout season two final episodes from midnight to 6 p.m. PT

Kotaku reports Amazon Prime Video announced on January 26 it will move the release time for the final two episodes of Fallout season two from midnight to 6 p.m. PT. Season two episode seven will now arrive on Tuesday, January 27, and episode eight will be available on Tuesday,

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Tim Cain describes 70+ hour weeks while making the original Fallout

Pcgamer reports that in a new video on his YouTube channel, Fallout lead Tim Cain described his average daily schedule while working on the original Fallout at Interplay Entertainment and reflected on the grueling pace of work and why it felt acceptable in 1995. Cain said his composite day in

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Fallout co-creator says spaghetti code stems from time pressure, not laziness

Fallout co-creator Timothy Cain said in a new YouTube video that unreadable "spaghetti code" in games happens when developers aren't given enough time, not because they're "stupid, lazy programmers," Gamesradar reported. Cain, a former Interplay developer, illustrated the point with an example

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Bethesda declined Fallout screen deals for a decade until it found the right partner

Gamesradar reports studio veteran Emil Pagliarulo said Bethesda could have made a Fallout movie or TV show a decade ago, but the studio continually refused Hollywood offers until it found the right partner. In an interview with PC Gamer, Pagliarulo credited Todd Howard and explained the rejections were deliberate: Hollywood

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Three Prime Video series to binge now: Wentworth, Maxton Hall, Jury Duty

Collider reports that Fallout has returned to the top of Prime Video’s TV rankings after briefly being dethroned by the reality competition Beast Games; the sci‑fi drama is approaching the final three episodes of its second season and has been praised for its visuals and performances. One recommended

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Fallout Season 2 teases unknown prewar force behind the apocalypse

Collider reports that in Fallout Season 2 episode "The Wrangler" Robert House (Justin Theroux) tells Cooper Howard (Walton Goggins) he knows the end of the world is coming but suspects “another player at the table,” an “unknown entity” responsible for the nuclear holocaust rather than the corporate powers.

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Tim Cain outlines nine core RPG quest types

Pcgamer reports that Fallout co‑creator Tim Cain has identified nine core types of quests in role‑playing games and warned that adding more of one type can mean less of another when budgets are fixed. Cain lists murder, kill, fetch, collect, delivery, escort, talk, puzzle and timed quests, and

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Magic's Secret Lair revisits Fallout with TV-show and New Vegas cards

Pcgamer reports Wizards of the Coast will release four Secret Lair drops later this month that return to the world of Fallout, including one set spotlighting characters from the Fallout TV series. The TV-series drop will include cards based on The Ghoul, Maximus, and Lucy. Lucy gets her own card

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Fallout Season 2 episode 5 features Ghoul's betrayal of Lucy and House reveal

Collider reports that Fallout Season 2 episode 5, "The Wrangler," ends with Walton Goggins' Ghoul betraying Lucy and includes a major reveal of Robert House in the past timeline; the episode also reunites Lucy with her father, Hank. The episode continues the road‑trip arc in which

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Amazon is casting contestants for a Fallout-themed reality competition

Kotaku reports Amazon is casting contestants for a Fallout-themed reality competition that currently carries the working title "Fallout Shelter." The company’s live-action Fallout series is in the middle of season two and has been a big hit for the streaming service. The casting website, spotted by VGC,

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MTG Secret Lair Rad Superdrop brings Fallout TV series in 22 cards

Polygon reports Magic: The Gathering is returning to the Fallout universe with a 22-card Secret Lair “Rad Superdrop” themed around Amazon’s Fallout TV series, slated to release on Jan. 26. Official Fallout accounts first teased the collaboration on Jan. 15 before a full reveal hours later. The Drop includes