MMO vet Matt Firor was going to make Fallout Online in 2007, but Interplay ‘went totally dark on me’ and he went to Bethesda to make ESO instead

Fallout 76 is about the closest we’re likely get to a fully-fledged Fallout MMO—given the genre’s pretty hard to get into nowadays and, well, it’s doing rather well. But there was a time that would’ve seen a massively multiplayer variant of the wasteland competing with Blizzard’s biggest: The ill-fated, legally-tangled Fallout Online. That’s per Matt…

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‘Why didn’t anyone think of this before?’: Former Elder Scrolls Online boss loves Crimson Desert, but making ‘a singleplayer MMO is almost like cheating’ to him

Matt Firor has been in the MMO business since 2001, the days of Dark Age of Camelot, and ran The Elder Scrolls Online developer ZeniMax Online Studios until 2025. Firor resigned in response to the cancellation of in-development MMO Blackbird and the mass layoffs that followed. Firor still plays The Elder Scrolls Online in secret,…

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Classic Kong – An Iconic arcade game now reimagined for the Atari Jaguar

In a exciting development for retro gaming enthusiasts, developer swapd0 who recently released the Atari Jaguar game called BurgerTom, has now unofficially released Classic Kong for the Atari Jaguar. This new homebrew project brings a faithful reimagining of the legendary Donkey Kong arcade experience to Atari’s 64-bit powerhouse, offering a polished way to experience a piece…

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How to get Fertilizer in Arc Raiders

I don’t know about you, but I’ve always ignored Fertilizer in Arc Raiders. Until now, it’s had no purpose besides recycling into Assorted Seeds or selling it for a measly 1,000 coins. But with the Riven Tides update, we all suddenly need to get a handful of Fertilizer for the Avian Alarm project. More specifically,…

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