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Fallout 5 hasn’t officially been announced yet but, with renewed interest in the postapocalyptic series thanks to the new Amazon-produced Fallout TV show, we’re starting to hear more and more rumors about the new Wasteland adventure.

Whether exploring the irradiated monuments of Washington D.C. in Fallout 3 or gambling away your last couple of Caps on The Strip in Fallout: New Vegas, the series' North American setting is an essential piece of the puzzle. And while players have previously been given tantalising glimpses of how the rest of Bethesda's bleak world might be faring, studio head Todd Howard says the plan is to keep the series set in the US.

For all long as the Fallout franchise has been around, it has never been set outside of the United States. Of course, its over-the-top, retro-futuristic Americana satirization is a core aspect of what makes Fallout, Fallout, but on new few occasions, large chunks of the series’ fanbase have wondered how locations outside of the US are faring in Fallout’s post-apocalyptic setting, and whether they could fare as suitable settings for a future Fallout game.

With the Fallout TV series topping 65 million viewers to become one of the most watched Prime Video shows ever, the pressure is on for more content set in the wasteland, and Bethesda is seemingly ready to oblige.

PS Plus Extra subscribers hoping to download the Fallout 4 free current-gen update have been left disappointed, after finding that the upgraded version hasn't been applied to the subscription service. Instead, those who have downloaded the game from the PS Plus game catalog are stuck with the previous-gen version.

With the release of the new TV show there has never been a better time to dive into the post-apocalyptic universe and replay the games. One often overlooked entry into the series is the free to play idle game that puts players in charge of their very own vault. But what is it that makes this game still worth checking out in 2024?

Bethesda's very own Mr Handy (director and executive producer) Todd Howard has addressed the controversy surrounding the Fallout TV show's treatment of Fallout backstory, reaffirming the canonicity of Obsidian's Fallout: New Vegas and promising that Bethesda and Amazon are being "careful" to maintain consistency between the games and the TV series. Are you new to this latest lore scandal? Watch out for Fallout Season 1 spoilers ahead, then.

On March 25, Bethesda Studios celebrated the 30th anniversary of their premier fantasy franchise, dropping a hint about the release of . In 1994, the studio released , which spurred a long-lasting franchise of highly-rated titles. With the last mainline game having been released in 2011, eager fans of the series anticipate more news about the sequel to .

Scarlett Johansson is trading the Avengers for dinosaurs.

Bethesda‘s Todd Howard shared details on Fallout 5 with the Fallout TV show’s creators, to avoid them coming up with similar ideas.

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From the studio that brought us Talk to Me and Herdiatry comes a new horror movie I Saw the TV Glow, and judging by the first trailer, it looks just as chilling as you’d expect.

The new Jurassic World movie coming in 2025 has finally found its director after David Leitch exited the movie.

Jurassic 4 has found a new director: Gareth Edwards has stepped in to take over from David Leitch after the Bullet Train helmer dropped out of the project mere days after his involvement was announced. 

A is in the works, with a writer who has experience with the franchise already lined-up.

It's official: we've finally gotten our first look at the upcoming Indiana Jones game from Wolfenstein developer MachineGames: it's called Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, and it's out later this year.

The teaser video was then followed up with a secondary tweet, which revealed that the currently unnamed Indiana Jones game is being developed by MachineGames - the team that has brought us the Wolfenstein series. 

Despite the MCU’s attempts at replicating the long-running stories of the comics, supervillains tend to not last very long. It’s a tradition in movies dating back to the ’90s era of Batman inevitably dropping the bad guy off a roof before the credits rolled, something not even Marvel’s interconnectedness can seem to fix. And even those in the MCU that do regularly reoccur, like Thanos and Loki, are either built up over time or flip-flop their allegiances.

The director of Daisy Ridley’s post-Rise of Skywalker Star Wars movie says it’s going to be "very special".

There's a lot of mystery surrounding Matthew Vaughn’s upcoming spy comedy Argylle. Not only does the trailer give very little away, but as the director teases to Total Film in our new issue, a huge chunk of its plot will likely be kept a surprise right up until its release.

Followers of the movie release calendar just can’t get a moment’s peace: As soon as COVID-19-era disruptions were smoothed out and production pipelines mostly restored in 2023, a lengthy two-guild strike threw everything out of whack again. Delays, shifts, and cancellations galore added to the usual mix of theatrical releases and (fewer, but still notable) direct-to-streaming productions.

Todd Howard went up on a new video with Wired to talk about his career, game by game.

Stranger Things star David Harbour says he "loved" Bethesda's space RPG Starfield and has used "all the exploits" to get infinite money and steal things. 

brought back an enduringly popular figure from the previous games in the series, but it did so only to almost immediately kill him off in one of the most unbearably emotional scenes in the entire game. weaves a dramatic narrative with numerous characters, and though this tug at the heartstrings of long-time fans of the series is quite cheap, it is devastatingly effective. Ultimately, brought back one character for no reason but to die — their death is not narratively important, nor does their death present a lingering point of conflict.

Starfield's procedurally generated planets and galaxy-sized landmasses have generated endless chatter in the dark void known as the internet. But one Bethesda developer has defended the game's planets, calling some of them "empty by design" in response to a negative user review.

Kang’s not cutting it. After one movie as the antagonist and most of Loki season 2 as a supporting character, he just hasn’t felt like a villain than can carry a whole phase of the Marvel Cinematic Universe on his back the way Thanos did. And according to a report from Variety, Marvel has recently had similar concerns.

John Cena is no stranger to action movies – but his latest, Freelance, sounds like it may have been better off staying on the cutting room floor. The movie debuted to a score of 0% on review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes, based on 21 reviews from critics at the time of writing.

If Todd Howard up and left Bethesda, it would "leave a big hole," says Skyrim's lead designer, insisting that the Starfield director has "an attribute that none of the rest of us did."

Argylle is an upcoming spy movie from Kingsman director Matthew Vaughn, starring Bryce Dallas Howard and Henry Cavill. It’s out in February and based on a forthcoming novel by debut author Elly Conway. And, oh yeah, a lot of people think that Elly Conway doesn’t exist and is actually the pen name of international pop superstar Taylor Swift.

The is right around the corner, and viewers are wondering when they can start streaming the TV series. Power Book III: Raising Kanan is set in South Jamaica in 1991 and serves as a prequel to Power by Courtney A. Kemp. It centers on Kanan Stark, a cocaine distributor with growing connections and networks. Sascha Penn serves as the showrunner for season three.

Ahead of the launch of Starfield, Bethesda chief Todd Howard said there were over 1,000 planets to explore in the science fiction role-playing game. "From barren but resource-heavy ice balls, to Goldilocks planets with life,” Howard said during the Xbox and Bethesda Games Showcase in June. “And not just this system, but over 100 systems — over 1,000 planets, all open for you to explore."

A high-level designer leaves Naughty Dog as the company pauses development of the untitled multiplayer game. Most of the studio’s recent layoffs targeted part-time employees from the quality assurance department. Now the game’s Principal Monetization Designer, Anders Howard, has also left the company.

The first full trailer for Kingsman creator Matthew Vaughn's new action comedy Argylle is finally here – and, well, we're still none the wiser as to what it's really about. What we do know, though, is that the teaser, which you can watch above, sees Bryce Dallas Howard's timid spy novelist Elly Conway having a pretty... cat-astophic day.

With gaining popularity, many fans want to know if the series’ lead is related to, due to them looking so alike. Is he a close relative of the late Willy Wonka star, which would explain why they look like one another? Here’s all you need to know.

It looks like The Elder Scrolls 6 won't be releasing until 2026 at the very earliest, and our PlayStation pals are likely going to be missing out entirely.

You may have heard about a little space game called Starfield, the gravitational pull from which risks swallowing all games discourse for months and possibly years to come. Perhaps that's no surprise for a game that's been in development and hyped for as long as any title that I can remember (well, ones that have shipped anyway) but it's easy to forget now the thing's in our hands that it was subject to multiple delays along the way.

Bethesda are adding official support for Starfield mods in 2024, Bethesda Games Studios top banana Todd Howard has told Famitsu in a Japanese language interview. People are already modding Starfield, of course - the options range from "Potato Mode" functionality for lower-spec computers, through somewhat controversial Starfield DLSS mods, to the all-important Starfield script extender, which lets other modders add "scripting capabilities and functionality" to the game. But Bethesda have yet to release proper in-house tools, aka Creation Kit 2.

In an interview with Famitsu, Starfield lead and Bethesda frontman Todd Howard stated that the game's mod support «will be available next year» (obtained via machine translation), which likely refers to Starfield's equivalent to the Creation Kit modding tools for Skyrim and Fallout 4.

I have been playing Starfield for a few weeks now, and there is plenty of opportunity for customization, from the character creator tool to changing your clothing appearance and even customizing the outside of your ship. But today I learned that you can also design the interior of your ship's console by adding items on there as decor.

Starfield is officially out, and modders have been working hard creating helpful add-ons, from useful, quality-of-life mods such as revamping the inventory UI to unofficially adding support for DLSS. Others have added more cosmetic things like reskin in-game clothes. And then there are some people out there who keep modding Bethesda's Todd Howard into the game.

We all knew that Starfield would have a packed Nexus Mods page in its first week of release, but the dedication of the playerbase is still awe-inspiring. We're only on day three of its early access period and there are already 334 mods uploaded to Nexus at the time of writing. 124 of which were shared today. So, it's no surprise that some of them already centre around the main man himself, the one and only: Todd Howard.

Three things are always in your future: death, taxes, and yet another version of Skyrim. It seems Bethesda boss Todd Howard is in on the joke, even when he's writing internal messages to the rest of the dev team.

If the idea of another hulking Bethesda Games Studios role-playing game now being just days away has you excited, then you may also be pleased to hear details about what happens when you do eventually reach its end.

During the Gamescom Opening Night Live 2023 stream, two cool dudes—Todd Howard and Geoff Keighley—stood on stage and discussed Starfield.

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We are now less than one month away from the launch of Starfield, the new space-exploration RPG from Bethesda Game Studios – makers of The Elder Scrolls series as well as Fallout 3 and 4. And after an excellent and very well-received 45-minute Starfield Direct presentation in June, hype is running high. This is the first game from this team, led by decorated game director Todd Howard, in eight years (Fallout 4). It’s topped the Steam wishlist charts for the past two months. It is, by the developer’s own account, the biggest game it’s ever made (and for what it’s worth, from the hour I got to play it with Howard – first from the beginning and then quickly jumping between a couple of other save files – I saw nothing to doubt the team’s claims). And as the Xbox’s first-party/exclusive game journey continues to carve out its strange and unforeseen path, it’s turned out to be the most important launch for the platform in a long time.

Evo is a major event for fighting game tournaments and news. This year, we’ve seen updates announced for some of the biggest games in the genre, including Street Fighter 6, Tekken 8, and Mortal Kombat 1. There’s even a brief teaser for SNK’s next bout. Here’s all the news at Evo 2023 you should know about.

Almost exactly one year ago, SNK announced a new Fatal Fury game, the first in over 20 years, was in the works. During EVO this weekend, the company revealed the game’s title is Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves, alongside a new teaser trailer.

Starfield is going to be filled with easter eggs. Whether they’re callbacks to Fallout, Skyrim, or the rest of The Elder Scrolls series, or nods to the worlds of RPG games or space exploration itself, we can expect to find a lot of smart little references once we get stuck into the world of Starfield proper. Starfield companions are also bound to play a large role in our adventures, but it seems like one, Sarah Morgan from the Constellation faction, is visually inspired by Bethesda’s own Todd Howard; or more specifically, Todd at the 2018 E3 reveal of Fallout 76.

Maquette features the voices of Bryce Dallas Howard and Seth Gabel.