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The Fallout show’s power armor is remarkably faithful to the suits found in the Fallout games: big, clumsy, ridiculous. They could’ve wound up looking very different, though, because according to Fallout show production designer Howard Cummings, Bethesda never insisted on adherence to the games. “They didn’t say, ‘You have to do the game,’” said Cummings…

Have you ever seen the Windows login screen on your monitor and thought, “Wait a minute, didn’t I tell it to shut down?” For a while, I doubted myself: Maybe I had told Windows to “update and restart” instead of “update and shut down.” And maybe I should go check the burners on the stove,…

The Sims isn’t the only PC life simulation game in town anymore. Dozens of smaller, more focused life sims have appeared in the years since Stardew Valley took off, and now upcoming Sims competitors like Paralives and Life by You are aiming for the same kind of broad home, relationship, family, and career simulation that…

The Fallout show’s naive Vault-dweller Lucy strikes me as a tricky character to pull off—too wide-eyed and it’s just annoying—but actor Ella Purnell artfully balances her performance on the edge between dopiness and competence. I think she responded very successfully to the description that sold her on the part, which was roughly ‘Ned Flanders, but…

The Vault sets for Amazon’s Fallout show were built in a New York soundstage, but when Lucy steps into the Wasteland, the actors and crew ventured outdoors to shoot, in part, on location in a genuine ghost town and coastal desert. Ironically, the desert in question is nowhere near Southern California. The joke about Hollywood…

The R-36 Eruptor is a hell of a democracy spreader.  Available in Helldivers 2’s new Democratic Detonation Warbond, the Erputor is a primary weapon that fires “jet-assisted shells” which explode on impact, and can destroy fabricators, bug nests, gunships, tanks, and other vehicles and structures. Basically, it packs the power of a support weapon stratagem…

I didn’t learn about open-source game engine Godot until last year, when its profile was raised by an extraordinary fumble from commercial game engine Unity. Now Godot is being used to make Slay the Spire 2, which instantly became one of my most highly anticipated games when it was announced this week. Slay the Spire…

After last year’s well-received Dead Space remake, one might’ve expected EA to put a team at developer Motive on a remake of Dead Space 2. It doesn’t look like that’s happening, though, because EA announced this week that the Dead Space remake’s leads are now gathering a team at Motive to work on the Battlefield…