Fallout: New Vegas’ Mr. House was based on Howard Hughes, but the game’s lead writer says his sense of the character ‘has changed as we’ve seen the rise of Silicon Valley would-be messiahs’

The Fallout TV series returns this week, with season 2’s episodes dropping weekly until February. This season of the show has opted for the setting of New Vegas, and PCG’s Ted Litchfield recently had the opportunity to speak to the lead writer of Fallout: New Vegas, John Gonzalez. As well as some inconveniently correct observations…

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Roblox ban sparks protests in Russia

Protesting government policies can be a risky business in Russia, but despite those risks a Reuters report says a group of people in the Russian city of Tomsk recently braved brutal weather and the threat of reprisals to take a stand against an outrage they could not let pass: A ban on Roblox. Russia banned…

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The best characters in Fallout

The person you spend the most time thinking about in a Fallout game is the build-a-bear murderer you assemble in character creation—an amalgam of traits, facial blemishes and inventory items glued together by a haphazard personality you’ll develop on the fly. Eventually, though, the other voices start to seep in. Preston stops speaking for a…

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Arc Raiders’ Cold Snap event will turn ‘every raid into a high-stakes survival run’ as frostbite drives players into what little shelter remains

The next big event on Arc Raiders’ calendar is a snow day. Dubbed the Cold Snap, this limited-time event introduces the new Snowfall map condition for Topside locations, turning once lush regions like Dam Battlegrounds, Spaceport, Buried City and Blue Gate into a frozen hell. “The update continues the game’s strong momentum with a limited-time…

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Arc Raiders’ Cold Snap event will turn ‘every raid into a high-stakes survival run’ as frostbite drives players into what little shelter remains

The next big event on Arc Raiders’ calendar is a snow day. Dubbed the Cold Snap, this limited-time event introduces the new Snowfall map condition for Topside locations, turning once lush regions like Dam Battlegrounds, Spaceport, Buried City and Blue Gate into a frozen hell. “The update continues the game’s strong momentum with a limited-time…

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Hades 2 lead says they didn’t nerf the game’s most popular boons, but rather found ‘new homes’ for them during early access development

Hades 2, as is Supergiant’s wont with these sorts of roguelikes, had a long and extended early access period—which also means that it had a lot of patches, updates, and fiddling in its guts that might’ve soured players who were falling into comfy rhythms. After all, if you’re getting cosy with certain boons in one…

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