Crazy experimenter in Fallout 4 left Paladin Danse alone with endless synths overnight – and got a pile of corpses and tens of thousands of rounds of ammunition
Fallout 4 has plenty of bugs that have already become memes, but few of them let you literally go to sleep and wake up owning millions of rounds of ammunition. All it takes is leaving...
Skyrim fan only learned after 200 hours in the game that he was supposed to sleep in a bed
Spending hundreds of hours in an open world without noticing an entire mechanic sounds like a bug, but in Skyrim it's just a natural result of how the game treats sleep. Rest isn't required for...
Fallout 3 players recalled how they couldn't get through the metro because the map was hidden in terminals
The Washington D.C. subway in Fallout 3 is still where playthroughs go to die. Players head down there for a quest, lose their bearings among identical tunnels, and can't find the right exit. Some of...
Fallout: New Vegas fan showed how the RPG could look in the isometric perspective of the classic series entries
Sometimes all it takes is a different camera angle to turn a familiar game into something completely new. The Mojave Wasteland, shot from above at a distinctive tilt, suddenly stops looking like a first-person shooter...
Oblivion developer, 20 years later, still remembers a quest that the game completed by itself
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered art lead Dan Lee shared a story that explains why Bethesda Game Studios games are still considered a benchmark for living open worlds. Lee joined the studio shortly after...
Skyrim player showed bread and a piece of cheese in 8K from a 600 GB mod pack
The LoreRim modpack for Skyrim has become the perfect example of what texture resolution wars have done to modding. The install eats up as much space as a dozen modern game releases combined, and the...
A gamer revealed that his late grandfather left behind an official Skyrim guidebook, sparking an existential crisis among fans of the series
A gamer recently shared photos online of an official Skyrim guide found among the belongings of their recently deceased grandfather, calling the book "old merch." That phrase hit the audience harder than the story itself...
Fallout 3 fan asked the remaster's developers to get rid of Rivet City's loading screens
Bethesda Game Studios officially confirmed remasters of Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas, though no release dates were given. Discussion after the announcement quickly turned to a question that matters more to players than graphics....
A dead Falmer embraces a captive in Dwemer ruins, and it's one of the darkest details in Skyrim
Skyrim has trained players to look for stories where none officially exist. Stumble across a couple of corpses frozen in an unnatural pose, and the brain does the rest, filling in a tragedy complete with...
Fallout 4 fan walked the Freedom Trail in real Boston and was amazed at how meticulously Bethesda recreated the city in the game
A good video game can do more than fill a couple of evenings – sometimes it sends you out into the real world with a map in hand. Virtual walks through ruins occasionally turn into...
A gamer crafted a novice mage's robe from Skyrim in real life – he was hindered by both the game itself and the weather
Armor from Skyrim rarely survives contact with the real world unscathed. Patching a texture in a game engine is one thing – figuring out what material something is actually made of when the models themselves...
Terran Armada DLC for Starfield is included in Premium Edition at no extra cost
Bethesda recently laid out its plans for the future of sci-fi RPG Starfield and announced a full expansion called Terran Armada, which brings a new faction, new locations, and a chunk of additional content. What...
Starfield is coming to PS5 and getting free flight between planets in a star system
Bethesda held a short stream focused on the near future of Starfield and confirmed several long-anticipated announcements. The biggest ones: the game is coming to PS5, and a major update called Free Lanes is on...
Skywind mod keeps showing what a Morrowind remake in Skyrim's engine could look like
The Skywind team has shared another look at their ambitious project to bring The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind into Skyrim's engine. The showcase took place during the C3 charity streamathon – an annual fan-run event...
A Starfield fan made a trailer about their own adventures in the game
One of the fans of Starfield has shared a homemade gameplay trailer capturing their personal journey through Bethesda's space RPG. Cut to the game's main theme, the video has already convinced some players to boot...
Fallout fan maps out four cities for a future game – Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, or Salt Lake City
A Fallout fan known as Dreaming_of_Rlyeh has shared four New Vegas-style fan maps for potential locations in a future entry in the series – Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, and Salt Lake City. Naturally, a couple...
Fallout player uses a macropad to control Pip-Boy and it actually looks pretty cool
The most immersive way to use Pip-Boy in Fallout would probably be a full-size replica with a real display, buttons, and switches – though actually playing like that sounds like a nightmare. A more practical...
A toy listing just leaked Fallout 3 Remastered, and Oblivion Remastered's first anniversary is almost here
A pre-order listing for a collectible figure has appeared online, tagged with an interesting label – "Fallout 3 Remastered." Bethesda keeps acting like nobody's figured anything out, but the one-year anniversary of Oblivion Remastered is...
Fallout 4 lead designer on how Todd Howard helped nail the game's paranoia theme
Fallout 4 has its fair share of synth detectives and food paste, but something was still missing during early development. Lead designer Emil Pagliarulo opened up about it in a new interview with Rock Paper...
Fallout 76 finally adds Bigfoot, and he's furious
The Backwoods update for Fallout 76 launched on March 3, and its headline addition is Bigfoot. Somehow, the legendary creature from American folklore had never appeared in a game built entirely around mythological beasts and...
