Back in 2013, I wrote about Fallout: Who Vegas – a small but polished mod that added a rather innocuous-looking blue police box to the Mojave wastes of Fallout: New Vegas. Inside the police box lay a massively detailed and functional rendition of the Tardis, pulled straight from the British institution that is Doctor Who. …
Modding. It’s the centre of many a PC gamer’s universe and arguably the reason for the continual success of Bethesda’s RPGs and Bohemia’s ArmA series. It’s the origin for games like DayZ and Red Orchestra, and it’s the reason I still play games that are over ten years old. …
Every few weeks I’ll come across a mod that sparks my interest. Whether it’s for a game I’m currently playing or something I haven’t booted up in several years, it doesn’t matter – within minutes of stumbling across something fascinating, I’ll have downloaded it and be playing the game with as much excitement as the day I first bought it.
Game fans are wonderfully creative people. As a community, we constantly see costumes and theatre, weapon replicas, game-inspired fashion, original and covered game songs, fan-art and fan-fiction. Every now and again a short film will come around with results varying from “Huh, kinda cool,” and “Holy cow, so… so beautiful *sniff*”. A director glorying in the name Wade K. Savage has built a team of experienced film-makers and is asking for $10,000 to make Legate: Lanius, a short telling the story of Fallout: NV’s masked Big Bad.
I’ve deceived you, and for that I’m sorry.
As anyone who even remotely follows gaming will be able to tell you, the Fallout series is certainly not forgotten. In fact, a slew of Fallout games have graced our consoles and gaming rigs in the past few years alone, and each has been welcomed into our homes with outstretched arms. And so why have I brought you here under false pretences, you ask? Well, allow me to explain. …
We live in a strange world where some of the premier minds behind a franchise have no say over its direction. When you can buy and sell the rights to a franchise, the name becomes worth more than the product itself. The right name can move far more units than any technical innovation, no matter who owns it.
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