Microsoft has announced an Xbox Games Showcase and a “Redacted” Direct for June.
11.04.2024 - 20:03 / eurogamer.net / Bethesda Softworks / Ios
Amazon is expanding April's previously announced Prime Gaming subscription games with two additional Fallout titles, both available now via its Luma game streaming service, to celebrate the launch of its live-action Fallout TV show.
First up is Bethesda's classic post-apocalyptic open-world action-RPG, Fallout 3, which is available in its Game of the Year Edition guise, meaning players can settle in for a whole pile of stuff, seeing as it includes all five post-launch DLC expansions.
Also available on Luma for Prime Gaming members is Obsidian Entertainment's much-loved Fallout 3 follow-up, Fallout: New Vegas — which (as its name very much implies) shifts the post-apocalyptic action away from Washington, D.C. for an adventure spanning parts of California, Nevada, and Arizona. Eurogamer named New Vegas one of our games of the decade back in 2019, so it's well worth taking it for a turn.
To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Manage cookie settings Look at the graphics on that!Watch on YouTubeAnd if you missed Amazon's previous announcement, the other titles being giving away to Prime Gaming subscribers in April include Fallout 76, with the full list as follows:
Amazon's Fallout blowout coincides with the launch of its live-action Fallout TV show, which follows in the footsteps of 2023's The Last of Us adaptation by also not being a load of bobbins. As Eurogamer contributor Graeme Virtue wrote of the new show in his four star review, «What a lovely, if blood-spattered, surprise.» And if you've already speed-watched your way through to the end, perhaps you'd like to join Victoria Kennedy as she goes on a journey to uncover some of its easter eggs. Before you dive into Fallout 4's long-awaited next-gen update, of course.
Microsoft has announced an Xbox Games Showcase and a “Redacted” Direct for June.
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Xbox Game Pass is making four more games available to subscribers, including a day-one launch title and three additions for Core members. Xbox Game Pass Core, which launched in September 2023, replaced Xbox Live Gold and did away with the two free games subscribers received each month. Instead, for the same price, Core offers a catalog of more than 25 games for members to enjoy at their leisure, and the selection of titles changes about two to three times per year.
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Amazon's Fallout TV show has — a few minor controversies aside — been a hit with fans since arriving last week; but while the show has covered plenty of the video games' post-apocalyptic basics — from Pip-Boys and Power Armour to Vaults and Vault-Tec — not everything made the cut, and its creators have now explained they deliberately held back some «iconic» stuff, including Deathclaws, to better do them justice in a potential Season 2.
Microsoft has announced the second wave of April 2024 Xbox Game Pass additions. The upcoming batch consists of six titles, some of which will only be available to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers.
Fallout 76 for PC and Xbox consoles is now free to grab for Prime Gaming subscribers, who have until May 15 to permanently add the game to their libraries. Do note that the PC version is a Microsoft Store code.
Xbox Game Pass Ultimate has added a fresh batch of perks for users to claim, including the Vault 33 Survival Kit for online multiplayer game Fallout 76. Those subscribed to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate get to enjoy all the benefits of the other Xbox Game Pass subscription tiers, including online multiplayer, the PC and console game library, EA Play titles, exclusive discounts, and a rotating selection of perks.
Friends, there is trouble a-brewing down the radioactive watering hole. While Amazon's Fallout TV adaptation has launched to pretty positive verdicts, a contingent of Fallout players are up in arms over its portrayal of the Fallout timeline. In particular, it's being claimed that the show has written the events of Obsidian's Fallout: New Vegas out of the canon, despite reassurances from Bethesda Game Studios design director Emil Pagliarulo. Dare you read on? Let me just load up my Junk Jet with piping, hot Fallout Season 1 spoilers...
Fallout fans are scratching their heads over a plot point mentioned in the new hit TV show's sixth episode — which some say contradicts the game series' established lore.