Fallout creator laments the loss of the game’s earliest development materials: ‘I had that in digital form and was ordered to destroy it’

The original Fallout’s lead developer Tim Cain has been making YouTube videos about his long and eclectic career for a while now, and he keeps dropping fascinating tidbits about the foundations of what is now one of gaming’s biggest series. Such as: What the Vaults were actually for, or why specifically the first game is…

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Hugo Martin isn’t messing around as he unveils Doom: The Dark Age’s new Cosmic Realm: ‘Bear witness to the cyclopean architecture of this Lovecraftian dimension!’

It will never not seem weird to me that turgid guffola like “Doom: The Dark Ages is a premium singleplayer campaign featuring three core pillars of engagement” have moved from quarterly investor statements to consumer-oriented marketing. Luckily for all of us today, that stultifying corpo-speak isn’t the real reason we’re here: We’re here to check…

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Apple and Meta have been fined a total of €700,000,000 for non-compliance with the EU Digital Markets Act. Which, in their billion-dollar world, is just chump change

The European Commission has found that both Apple and Meta have breached the Digital Markets Act, and have received fines totalling €700,000,000. In Apple’s case, the breach was related to a violation of anti-steering rules, and the associated fine was set at €500 million—whereas Meta was found in breach of an obligation to give consumers…

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