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A talented Fallout 4 player has recreated Lucy MacLean from the TV adaptation in the game, resulting in one of the most accurate attempts yet. Ella Purnell's Lucy MacLean was one of the series' most highly praised elements, and one gamer has chosen to make her the focus of their Fallout 4 playthrough.

Some longtime Fallout: New Vegas players have taken to playing dirty tricks on fans of the streaming television series by trying to trick them into wandering into high-danger areas unprepared. Specifically, they've been goading unsuspecting new Fallout: New Vegas players into venturing into a massive deathclaw den and straight into the line of mortar fire with the false promise of high-level loot and no enemies.

This article has spoilers for the Fallout TV series

Fallout games have seen renewed interest since the release of the Fallout TV series on Amazon Prime Video earlier this month. Just as the show has received acclaim and attracted new viewers to the world of Fallout, new and returning players have been flocking to the role-playing games from Bethesda. Now, the studio has confirmed that Fallout titles have received almost five million players in a single day, including one million in Fallout 76 alone.

Spoilers for the Fallout TV series.

Spoilers for the Fallout TV series.

As expected following the glowing reception, Amazon has renewed the Fallout TV series for a second season.

Lionsgate Television announced on Wednesday that the studio is set to produce an English-language television adaptation of Park-chan Wook’s 2003 thriller Oldboy. The movie, one of the most mesmerizing, memorable dark action movies of the 2000s, started a new wave of Korean action cinema when it was first released. It’s since spawned endless copycats and homages — particularly its grim, bloody single-take hammer-in-a-hallway fight sequence, which filmmakers still frequently cite as an inspiration for their own battle scenes in constricted spaces. A 4K restoration was released in American theaters in 2023, and came in second at the box office in its first week, beaten only by Barbie. Spike Lee remade the movie as an English-language thriller in 2013, but it’s never been adapted for television before.

During the Fallout TV series, Walter Goggin's character Cooper Howard holds an infomercial all about the vaults, encouraging viewers to call the on-screen number to get a spot for when the apocalypse finally rears its three ugly radioactive heads. Naturally, fans rang the number to see who was waiting on the other end.

Fallout, you might have noticed, is having a bit of moment thanks to Amazon's acclaimed new live-action TV series; and one of its many easter eggs — an on-screen phone number that also happens to work if you dial it in the real world — has fans a-chatter as they ponder the significance of a curious message and a specific timeframe relayed within.

When the first trailer for Amazon’s Fallout dropped, the internet was hit by a familiar wave of eye rolls. Every aspect of it was scrutinized, from its Power Suit design to its title card gags. Now, days after the entire series was released on Amazon Prime Video to rave reviews, those preemptive haters are eating irradiated crow.

Conveniently timed following the release of the Fallout TV show, Bethesda has announced that its most recent mainline Fallout game, Fallout 4, will be getting a free next-gen update for PS5 and Xbox Series X.

With the Fallout series currently taking the world by storm, many Bethesda fans are wondering if the Amazon Prime Video exclusive could open the door for other adaptations. At the premiere of the new show in Los Angeles, IGN took the time to chat with Todd Howard about the likelihood of this happening, and things aren’t looking good. Sorry, Elder Scrolls fans.

Amazon's Prime Video series is a big venture for the classic game franchise, and the company is celebrating its launch in style by making some past games available for free. Ever since the 1997 game that spawned the series, 's post-apocalyptic wasteland has captured the imagination with vivid characters and expansive plots, making it a strong fit for a television adaptation. Amazon recently announced that subscribers will be able to download the MMO for free on Xbox and PC starting on April 11, but that isn't the only title that the company is making available.

Fallout has extensive lore built up over many years, rich pickings for anyone adapting the franchise for the big or small screen so it’s surprising that it’s taken this long for that to happen, especially when titles like Battleship and Rampage  have been adapted before Fallout. There was an attempt to make a Fallout film around the year 2000 and it got as far as a script but was ultimately cancelled.

Fallout’s transition to TV starts with a bang (or three depending on how you’re counting). But even after the show emerges from the vault, the hits keep coming. That’s because unlike a lot of other video game adaptations that receive a thin veneer designed to appeal to fans of the source material, the essence of Fallout runs so deep throughout this series it could weather an atomic blast. Its characters are magnetic and its visuals are downright impressive. But most importantly, just like HBO’s The Last of Us, Fallout is more than just a video game adaptation. It’s a really good show in its own right – an apocalyptically good one at that.

Fallout is a franchise that’s held together by tone just as much as any unifying story beats or canon. The series’ distinct post-apocalyptic vision of an America that never escaped the wide eyes, fake smiles, and faker optimism of the Cold War has become iconic, and its version of Americana shot through with radioactive black humor is more identifiable than any single character from the games will ever be (except Vault Boy, of course). It’s a series that revels in its ability to be funny, touching, sad, sweet, and disgusting all in a single moment. And that tone is what Amazon Prime Video’s new Fallout TV series captures best, and what makes it an excellent addition to the franchise, rather than just an adaptation.

Prior to its premiere on Amazon Prime Video later this week, the Fallout TV series has already been renewed for a second season. While the first season was filmed in New York and Utah, the next season is slated to be filmed in California after the California Film Commission offered a whopping $25 million in tax incentives.

Originally set to premiere on April 12, Amazon previously announced that its Prime Video Fallout series had been moved up to go live on April 11. Now, the show’s release has been moved up by another day. It’s been announced that all eight episodes of the first season of Fallout will premiere on Prime Video on April 10 at 6 PM PT.

Amazon’s Fallout TV series has looked increasingly promising with each now showing, and ahead of its imminent premiere, excitement is continuing to build. Interestingly enough, it looks like confidence about how the show will do is also high at Amazon- high enough, in fact, that plans already seem to be in motion for a second season.

While many video gamers are enjoying the “renaissance” that we’re going through currently via the high-quality TV shows and movie adaptations of video game properties, there’s still some hesitation when a new one is announced. After all, we’ve all seen just how quickly things can go from “good intentions” to “bad product,” and gamers are tired of seeing that with beloved franchises of the gaming space. To that end, the Fallout TV Series is about to hit Amazon Prime Video, and many can’t wait to see what the team came up with. Given the large scale of the Wasteland and its inhabitants, one might wonder how they tried to get “everything in there” for a single season.

Amazon has released a new featurette for its upcoming Fallout TV series.

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire director Gil Kenan has a promising update on that previously announced animated Ghostbusters series from Netflix.

During last night’s episode of Late Night with Seth Meyers, fans were treated to their first glimpse at Amazon Prime Video’s Fallout TV series during an interview with actor Walton Goggins. Goggins portrays The Ghoul in the show, set to premiere in its entirety on April 11.

Fans are counting down the days until the live-action Fallout TV series drops on Amazon Prime. Scheduled to premiere in its entirety on April 11, a new trailer was released last week, and while it impressed with its visuals and humor, audiences are wondering where the story will take place in the big scheme of things. In a new interview with Den of Geek, it was revealed that Todd Howard shared numerous details about Fallout 5 with the show’s creators to avoid any overlap with the future title.

The upcoming Fallout television show had certain aspects of the story cut by Bethesda's Todd Howard because he plans to use them in Fallout 5. As the live-action Fallout adaptation for Amazon Prime draws closer, small pieces of insight into Fallout 5 are being revealed.

The upside of things being bad is that you don't have to pay attention to them. Think of the time you've saved, in life, by movies, TV shows and video games being rubbish, and therefore culturally irrelevant and safely ignored.

Four years after a live-action Fallout TV adaptation was officially announced, the show is almost upon us. And ahead of its Amazon Video debut on 12th April — and following years of official images, unofficial behind-the-scenes shots, and even a sizeable teaser — we've got our best look yet at the adaptation, courtesy of a new three-minute series trailer.

We live in a time right now when video game adaptations are honestly anticipated in a good way. After serious successes on both the movie and TV fronts, people know that Hollywood CAN make a good adaptation; it’s just the question of “Will they?” In the case of the upcoming Fallout TV Series, the team behind it has been working hard for a long time to deliver the “Wasteland” that many are expecting, the characters and factions that are desired, and the feel of a world that has been turned to ask by humans. The team is so confident that they feel this entity is pretty much the 5th mainline game in the franchise!

The Fallout TV series’s Executive Producer, Jonathan Nolan, has said the freedom given to the project makes it feel like it’s .

Reach has fallen in the Halo TV universe. If you know anything about the lore of the Halo games, you know that the next thing that’s supposed to happen is Master Chief escaping from Covenant forces above Reach, his ship getting attacked, and then promptly crashing onto the series’ first Halo ring. In other words, this is basically the moment where the action starts. That is not what happened in the Halo TV series. Instead, Chief (Pablo Schreiber) and his friends took a reflective excursion to a backwater planet that felt a lot more like a detour than character development.

The Halo TV show has always held the video game series’ lore at arm’s length. From its early announcement of the “Silver Timeline” (an entirely separate but loosely similar canon that the TV show would be sticking to) to the first season, which gives Master Chief a slightly different origin story, the Paramount Plus series has never been concerned with the things longtime Halo fans hold near and dear. But as the show’s second season gets into more recognizable territory, like the Fall of Reach, it’s still surprising to see how wildly it diverged from the game’s in its fourth episode.

The third Sonic the Hedgehog movie is due to close out 2024, but before then comes a TV show spin-off. Simply named Knuckles, the short series focuses on the powerful echidna, introduced in the second film and voiced by Idris Elba. You can watch the brand new trailer above.

The Knuckles spin-off TV series from the Sonic the Hedgehog movies will debut on 26th April across the Paramount+ streaming service. Check out the new trailer for the six episode season:

Halo Infinite has added a helmet and helmet visor inspired by Paramount's TV show. One of the Halo Infinite items can be obtained by simply logging in, while the other will require some more playtime.

Paramount’s upcoming Knuckles TV series has received an official trailer and an April release date.

The Knuckles spin-off TV series from the Sonic the Hedgehog movies will debut on 26th April across the Paramount+ streaming service. Check out the new trailer for the six episode season:

A planned live-action adaptation of MMO Final Fantasy XIV is officially “dead”, according to the TV series’ producers. A combination of the pandemic and the “size and scale needed to do it right” are apparently to blame, with Amazon reportedly coming closest to making it a reality - but to no avail.

If you noticed that there hasn’t been a ton of hype or buildup to the return of the Halo TV Series on Paramount+ ever since the Season 2 trailer dropped, there’s a reason for that. While many were curious about what the adventures of Master Chief would look like in Season 1, the results were FAR from what fans hoped for. Not only was the canon stepped on and sometimes mocked depending on how you looked at it, but the team behind the show admitted they didn’t play the games! They did so many things wrong in fans’ minds that said fans were stunned when Season 2 was announced.

It's almost time for Master Chief to return to our screens in Halo season 2!

The Final Fantasy XIV live-action television series first announced back in 2019 is «dead,» according to the production company that was working on it. Hivemind, which also worked on Netflix's The Witcher, was developing the series with Sony Pictures Television, but co-founder Dinesh Shamdasani revealed on Twitter that the project is dead when asked about it, as reported by PC Gamer. 

A Final Fantasy 14 live-action TV series is now confirmed to be «dead» due to the «size and scale needed to do it right».

The previously announced live-action Final Fantasy 14 TV series is now "dead," according to its studio's co-founder. 

Many in the world today don’t like the idea of people talking negatively about another product, regardless of the medium. To a certain level, we can appreciate and respect that. After all, regardless of the result, it’s fair to assume that many people worked hard to create the thing you watched, listened to, or played. However, sometimes, things need to be called out so that it can be better in the future, and the Halo TV Series is an excellent example of that. The first season came out a while back, and it was blasted by critics and fans alike on multiple fronts.

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Young Mazino has joined the cast for the second season of HBO's The Last of Us adaptation.

Kaitlyn Dever has officially been cast as Abby in the second season of The Last of Us TV series.

It used to be that when a video game adaptation was announced, gamers would roll their eyes and watch as a trainwreck would slowly unfold before them. But more recently, movie and TV people have put much more time, effort, and budget into these adaptations, and the results have been worthwhile. TV shows and movies about video games have been nominated for awards recently, and some future adaptations are some of the more anticipated things coming out. For example, gamers were very curious when it was announced that a God of War adaptation was coming to Amazon Prime Video.

To say that there was a lot of intrigue going into the latest edition of the award show slate would be an understatement, and sadly, it was a tale of “Two Shows.” You see, at the “Creative Arts Emmys,” The Last Of Us won eight times, including for many of their actors. However, the next night at The Golden Globes, the show didn’t get a single victory, which many will see as odd for one reason or another. However, one of the victories the show got at the Creative Arts Emmy was for Nick Offerman’s role as Bill in the first season’s iconic third episode.

HBO's The Last of Us scooped up eight awards at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards 2023 last night.

We got our first look at the Fallout TV series last week with a trailer on Saturday preceded by a behind-the-scenes report from Vanity Fair, which included looks at the show's main characters and surprisingly bright and colorful post-nuclear world, and of course some words from Bethesda executive producer Todd Howard. The report also included a small and frankly baffling detail for fans to look forward to: Vault Boy, the real-world mascot of the series and in-game avatar of fictional megacorp Vault-Tec, is going to get his very own origin story.

Fallout fans have been waiting for a long time now for that next mainline video game installment. However, before that new release happens, we have a TV series to hold us over. I’m sure you’re already well familiar with the fact Fallout is being adapted into a TV series, but if you missed out, the show is coming our way in April of next year. We’ve waited a little while now for the show to have its first trailer, but this past weekend, we got our first teaser trailer, giving us a small glimpse of what we can expect. 

Perhaps the Last Of Us TV show on HBO getting it right was the dawn of a new era of good TV based on video games, but I still approach each adaptation with trepidation. That includes Amazon's Fallout series from Westworld and Person Of Interest writer/director Jonathan Nolan, which just got its first trailer.

Amazon’s Fallout TV series has got its first teaser trailer, and a release date, with the studio confirming the series will be available to stream from April 12th. The series focuses on a Vault Dweller from Vault 33 making the way to the surface, learning to survive in a new world 200 years after the bomb’s fell.

Just days after we got our first look at Amazon's Fallout TV series, we've been spoiled with another first look. Above you can check out the first official teaser trailer for the Fallout series.

The first look at Prime Video’s Fallout TV series has emerged with Vanity Fair‘s exclusive images.

We’ve known that Amazon’s Fallout TV series has been in the works since July 2020. Today, we get our first good look at the series’ live-action world thanks to a brand new batch of images.

The upcoming Fallout TV series will launch on April 12, 2024, and backer Amazon Prime has now shared a first look behind-the-scenes with Vanity Fair. The game's retro-futuristic post-apocalyptic aesthetic does seem like a natural fit for a TV show and the choice of creative leads couldn't be better: the husband and wife team Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, best-known for the Westworld series (which I thought was excellent, albeit I didn't watch beyond the first season). The show's main characters include Lucy (played by Yellowjackets star Ella Purnell), who much like the player characters has spent her entire life in a vault, and her father Hank (Kyle MacLachlan) who's the vault overseer. Some sort of crisis sees Lucy leave the vault and enter the wasteland we know and love. «The games are about the culture of division and haves and have-nots that, unfortunately, have only gotten more and more acute in this country and around the world over the last decades,» says Nolan, who directed the show's opening three episodes. «We get to talk about that in a wonderful, speculative-fiction way.» The basic setup seems to be that Lucy is a nice but naive person whose vault-coddled existence has ill-prepared her for what lies above. Nolan points out the nature of virtue in such a setting as «circumstantial… it's a luxury virtue. You have your point of view because you never ran out of food, right?» Todd Howard also chimes in on the show, on which he serves as executive producer. «We had a lot of conversations over the style of humor, the level of violence, the style of violence,» says Howard, which is quite amusing coming from a guy who directed the Fallouts that gave us the VATs targeting system and its beautifully glitchy slow-mo gibfests. «Look, Fallout can be very dramatic, and dark, and postapocalyptic, but you need to weave in a little bit of a wink…. I think they threaded that needle really well on the TV show.» Howard discusses various previous approaches to such a project, and why they were turned down, saying that when people wanted to make a movie of Fallout 3 his thoughts were basically, «Yeah, we told that story.» The Fallout TV show is set within the games' universe with its own tale, and one that Howard says is canon: which is an interesting detail, and an approach I wouldn't be too surprised to see other shows based on games take.

The Fallout TV series is set to debut on Amazon Prime Video early next year, and today a new article in Vanity Fair revealed a ton of interesting new info about the series. It seems the Fallout show will stick relatively closely to the source material, with the usual factions you’d expect – Vault dwellers, the Brotherhood of Steel, the Ghouls, ect – but it isn’t a direct adaptation of any of the games.

Amazon Studios' Fallout TV series will premiere on April 12, 2024.

Get ready to tune your Radiation King brand television sets to Amazon Prime Video: The Fallout TV series will begin streaming on April 12, 2024.

Amazon Prime’s series adaptation of Bethesda’s Fallout franchise now has a release date: April 12, 2024. The announcement was made via Prime Video’s Twitter account in celebration of Fallout Day (the day the bombs fell in the original Fallout game).

Stand by, Fallout fans — there's only a few months left for you to stay in your bunkers before the Amazon Prime Fallout TV series debuts in April next year.

SILENT HILL: Ascension will be released on October 31st, as Genvid Entertainment and KONAMI announced today.

TV Tokyo has released the first trailer for a new live-action Pokémon drama series called Pack Your Pocket With Adventure (literal translation), or Pokétsume for short.

Unlike some anime (we're looking at you, Demon Slayer with your confusingly-titled seasons), how to watch Jujutsu Kaisen in order is relatively straightforward. But there are still some caveats that will have your cursing your luck.

Given the growth that the video game adaptation subgenre has seen since 2019, studios of all sizes are taking more chances on making something special based on hit video games. That includes Amazon, who is using its Amazon Prime Video service to bring people a Fallout TV Series. Typically, this would fill fans with dread, as large-scale video game adaptations have done poorly in the past. However, with the budget that the show seems to have, things might just be good. Further fueling this hope is a leaked teaser that dropped today on the internet, and it shows many things fans will want to see.

Godzilla is back! Or he will be, come November 17 anyway. Ahead of its release date, Apple TV Plus has finally unveiled the first trailer for upcoming sci-fi spin-off series Monarch: Legacy of Monsters – and it promises some big ol' kaijus and even bigger conspiracies.

With the now confirmed to be in production, many fans are wondering who will play Professor Severus Snape in the upcoming TV show. With Alan Rickman delivering an incredible experience in the movies, there’s a lot of pressure on HBO to cast a worthy successor. Adam Driver stands tall as the fan-favorite choice, but is that a realistic expectation?

Craig Mazin, showrunner and co-creator of HBO's The Last of Us adaptation, is open to series spin-offs «in principle».

Starfield might be hogging the spotlight right now, but that doesn't mean Bethesda has forgotten about its other babies; Fallout — or more specifically its upcoming live-action TV adaptation — is, for instance, having a bit of a moment right now following a brief Gamescom showing and confirmation from Amazon that it's launching in 2024.

With gamescom ONL kicking things off yesterday, the first full day of the trade show started off strong with new information on Starfield, Alan Wake 2, and RoboCop: Rogue City. Of course, we also saw some great surprises, including a brand-new teaser for the Fallout TV series.

There were plenty of announcements at Gamescom Opening Night yesterday, but not all were in front of the camera. While “Opening Night Live” showcased many things, some companies decided to take things behind closed doors to show off more without getting audience reactions. Bethesda was one such company, as they not only did an extra showing of their upcoming title, but they also showed a smaller teaser for their Fallout TV series coming to Amazon Prime. While the teaser isn’t going to be shown online, Amazon Prime released a poster and tweet confirming the show would arrive in 2024 and be set in Los Angeles.

A demo for Twin Peaks: Into the Night, a PS1-style reimagining of the cult hit TV series, is available to play right now.

A new game based on The Walking Dead TV series has been announced. Titled The Walking Dead: Destinies, the game will be a third-person action-adventure title with a focus on its narrative. The Walking Dead: Destinies is slated for release on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, and Nintendo Switch.

Name a more iconic duo than The Walking Dead and choice-based video games. AMC and publisher GameMill Entertainment know there’s no better answer to that prompt, so they’re teaming up for a new choose-your-own-adventure-style action game based on The Walking Dead TV series that sounds intriguing.

The upcoming Fallout TV show has seen another leak, as we get a look at the world of the Bethesda RPG game including Vault-Tec, retro-futuristic cars and suits, and some taped-up guns. If you wanted to see more Fallout, we’ve got you covered.