Fallout

Remember TikTok’s thirsty Pedro Pascal fan edits? For several months beginning in January 2023, many of us couldn’t open the video platform without being blasted by the familiar sound of Shaggy’s “Hey Sexy Lady” hit, to which many of the biggest videos were set. If you dive back into any of those videos now, you’ll find that swathes of these filtered, edited clips of the Chilean actor have been completely muted — because “Hey Sexy Lady,” along with many other popular songs used in viral trends, have been taken off…

Key systems in Fulton County, Georgia have been offline since last week when a 'cyber incident' hit government systems. While the county has tried its best to continue operations as normal, phone lines, court systems, property records and more all went down. The county has not yet confirmed details of the cyber incident, such as what group could be behind it or motivations for the attack. As of Tuesday, there did not appear to be a data breach, according to Fulton County Board of Commissioners Chairman Robb Pitts.Fulton…

Photo: Gilbert Flores/Golden Globes 2024/Golden Globes 2024 (Getty Images)Earlier this week, AI-generated porn featuring Taylor Swift started circulating on X (formerly Twitter). Swifties were scandalized. Polite society was incensed. Swift herself hasn’t publicly commented on the scandal but it’s easy to imagine she’s probably not thrilled about it. Now, people are saying that the queen of pop should sue—though it’s not entirely clear who she should sue or what kind of lawsuit it would be. One thing’s for sure: AI…

Bethesda is the company that brought us the Elder Scrolls series and it also brought us Fallout Shelter back in 2015. The latter was a smash hit game that was announced along with Fallout 4. Since then, it appears that Bethesda wanted to merge two of its most popular IPs together, to create Elder Scrolls Castles. The company announced this game back in September of 2023 and we’ve been pretty excited to get our hands on it. Today, it confirmed that Elder Scrolls Castles has had a soft launch on both iOS and Android. The…

A new game from the team behind Fallout Shelter, The Elder Scrolls: Castles, has been announced. The news was announced on the official X (formerly Twitter) Bethesda account, with the post stating that the team is “excited to finally share The Elder Scrolls: Castles, our new mobile game from the team behind Fallout Shelter. The team has been hard at work on it for the last few years and we absolutely adore it.” The game allows you to control and expand your castle over various generations, making decisions that dictate…

“War. War never changes.” It’s a grim warning, which leads the introductory monologue to every mainline game in the Fallout franchise. It’s a real mood-setter, usually accompanied by a summary of the state of society: In an alternate future, the world is living in retro-futurist, atompunk bliss. That is, until the bombs drop. And so, 200 years after the end of everything, the story begins. The first Fallout game launched for home computers in 1997, introducing players to a nuclear hellscape where they take on the…

Highly-anticipated Fallout 4 mod Fallout: London has finally received a release date. In a statement released on X (formerly Twitter) in December 2023, developer Team Folon said that “despite being content-complete as planned, upon careful consideration, we’ve recognised that our testing process may not be as robust as we desire”. “Our commitment is to provide you with a polished and as close to a flawless experience as we can. We only get one chance at a first release. We aim to deliver a memorable Fallout: London …

Image: HasbroTen years ago, Hasbro announced something akin to a disturbance in the Force—and Star Wars toy fans’ wallets: The Black Series, a brand new line that would bump the iconic heroes and villains of the galaxy far, far away up to 6" scale for the first time (and away from the 3.75" scale Star Wars changed the game with).Since then, countless characters from movies, games, comics, streaming shows, and more have made their way onto our desks and shelves—classic heroes like Han, Luke, and Leia; all-new ones still…

The fallout from robotaxi company Cruise continues, as now General Motors has just filed a lawsuit against San Francisco for $121 million, in what it calls unfair taxes and penalties since it acquired Cruise. GM argues that San Francisco charged the company an inflated tax rate because it factored in its Cruise self-driving car division, which GM says is a separate entity. It all gets a bit muddy, but GM argues that San Francisco has unfairly tied its global revenue to Cruise’s side of the…

It’s been a long time coming, but the ambitious Fallout London mod is on the horizon. The bad news is that the team has been unable to meet its intended 2023 deadline. The good news, however, is that the fan-made Fallout 4 project is just a few months away from release. In the latest dev video diary, narrator and voice actor Drew Faithwaite has given the skinny on where things are at with Fallout London. As of now, the project is pretty much complete, save for some testing. After all the hard work and dedication,…