The Fridge

‘It took about 5 years’ for people to start liking Fallout: New Vegas, says Josh Sawyer, and even longer for Obsidian to see that ‘players actually liked the design choices we had made’

Sometimes, a game needs time to age before we come to appreciate it—as is the case, Josh Sawyer, studio design director at Obsidian, claims of Fallout: New Vegas. Considered a cult classic, and potentially the best “modern” Fallout game (I put “modern” in air quotes there because it did come out 16 years ago. Sorry),…

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I’ve never felt smarter than playing this nostalgic horror puzzler that has me changing file types on a ’90s computer to solve mysteries

I can think of nothing I would hate more than for someone to go rummaging through my PC once I’ve popped my clogs. Not that there’s anything particularly incriminating lurking within years of accumulated files, but there’s something that feels weirdly private about this hulking setup that takes up half of my tiny apartment, you…

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