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Thursday21st Dec 2023
News Future Looking Bright for Fallout 76 and Its Legions of Players
17 million and counting
Fallout 76 was once a cautionary tale in developer overreach, an ambitious multiplayer world built off the back of Fallout 4 that bombed in a nuclear way when it launched in 2018, with many players writing it off for good. But credit where it's due: Bethesda Game Studio put in the work and supported the game. In a holiday...
Wednesday6th Dec 2023
News Fallout: New Vegas Vibes Front New Fallout 76 Content
Visit the casinos of Atlantic City
New Fallout 76 content available now is channelling the Las Vegas vibes of PS3 classic Fallout: New Vegas, with a new Expedition taking former vault dwellers to Atlantic City for some gambling and mob action. The free PS4 patch includes two new missions via a 27.3GB download as well as the new location and updates...
Wednesday27th Sep 2023
News Microsoft Documents Show How PlayStation Now Saved Fallout 76
Fallout shelter
Microsoft boss Phil Spencer thought about pulling support for Fallout 76 back when the platform holder acquired developer Bethesda as part of the larger purchase of parent company ZeniMax. In a revealing email, Spencer suggested that if the game couldn't manage 10 million monthly average users (a number it would ultimately surpass),...
Wednesday21st Jun 2023
News Bethesda's Fallout 76 Suddenly Runs Better Than Ever on PS5
Allegedly looks better, too
If Fallout: New Vegas is the black sheep of Bethesda's modern Fallout family (developed as it was by Obsidian), we aren't quite sure what that makes Fallout 76. Released in 2018 in a shockingly bad state, an incomprehensible Gen Alpha or Bravo second cousin, perhaps? In any case, Fallout 76 apparently runs at 60...
Monday30th Jan 2023
Random Fallout 4's Flashing Lights and Mini-Nuke a Lost Reference, Not H.P. Lovecraft
4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42
Fallout 4 is an RPG so chock-full of content that even veterans of the Wasteland are likely to wander past some of its more esoteric cultural references, even all these years later. Case in point: developer Jonah Lobe just confirmed that a quarry containing flashing lights and a mini-nuke is a Lost reference, and definitely not...
Tuesday3rd Jan 2023
News PS Plus Essential Games for January 2023 Available to Download Now
Fall in order
Announced last week when we were all in the throes of eating lots of rich food and watching Home Alone 2 (probably), the latest gaggle of PS Plus Essential monthly games is now available to claim on PS5 and PS4. A trio of treats can now be added to your library and downloaded. As a reminder, here's what will be available during the...
Wednesday14th Sep 2022
News Return to Ruined Pittsburgh in Fallout 76's Latest Free Update, Available Now
A grim industrial wasteland, awash with radiation
Fallout 76's latest DLC will have players venturing back to the Pitt, the irradiated ruins of Pittsburgh which was the setting for a Fallout 3 expansion of the same name. The update is free and available now but is designed for high-level play, so you may want to gear up before going on this...
Tuesday14th Jun 2022
News The Next Expansion for Fallout 76 Is Coming in September to PS4, and Season 9 is Now Live
We have to go back
Announced during the Xbox & Bethesda Showcase, the next major expansion for Fallout 76 is called Expeditions - The Pitt, which will see players travelling beyond the borders of Appalachia on an expedition to the ruined remains of Pittsburgh (a location which will be familiar to players of Fallout 3's second DLC, also called...
Monday28th Mar 2022
News Rust Developer Signed Up to Create More Fallout 76 Content
Part of five-year roadmap
Rust developer Double Eleven has been signed up by Bethesda to help create further Fallout 76 content alongside the main team back in Rockville, Maryland. Confirmed in a blog post on the company's website, the content the studio has worked on is planned to be released later this year after talks began in "late 2020". Even...
Friday11th Jun 2021
News Fallout 76 Scraps Battle Royale Mode in September
Because nobody's playing it
It's lights out for the Battle Royale mode in Fallout 76 as Bethesda announced the post-launch offering will be removed from the game at the end of September. The reason why? There aren't enough users actively playing it to justify keeping it around. Full lobbies were tough to come by, meaning matchmaking times were...
Tuesday27th Apr 2021
News Massive Fallout 76 Update Rolls Out on PS4 Today
Locked and loaded
An absolutely enormous Fallout 76 update weighing in at an astonishing 58.6GB has rolled out on PlayStation 4, as Bethesda continues to iterate on the persistent online game. Dubbed the Locked & Loaded patch, it brings with it a wealth of new features and functions, including the ability to establish a second C.A.M.P. base and...
Monday22nd Mar 2021
News Fallout 76 Unlocks the Vault with 2021 Content Roadmap
Rad
Bethesda may be gone, but Fallout 76 is not! The publisher’s committed continued support for the online RPG on PlayStation 4, and that means you’ll be able to enjoy its entire suite of 2021 content. The firm has released a roadmap today, which outlines a little bit of what you can expect, beginning with Season 4 this coming Spring. The...
Thursday14th May 2020
News Bethesda Remains Committed to Fallout 76 with New Roadmap
Through until 2021
No matter what you think of Fallout 76, you've got to give Bethesda props for sticking with the fully online experience beyond its disaster of a launch. Its fanbase has reacted positively to the recent Wastelanders update, and there's even more for those still playing the game to look forward to. A new content roadmap outlines...
News Fallout 76 Is Free to Play on PS4 This Weekend
Atomic
If the ongoing coronavirus pandemic isn’t apocalyptic enough for you, then you may appreciate the dilapidated backdrop of Fallout 76, which is free to play on the PlayStation 4 this weekend. Starting from 12PM EDT today (14th May) through 12PM EDT on 18th May, you’ll be able to test out the base game in its entirety, as well as its new...
Tuesday14th Apr 2020
News Fallout 76 Community Reacts Very Positively to Wastelanders Update
Return to Appalachia
Fallout 76 might have been a disaster when the online experience released on PlayStation 4 in late 2018, but since then, Bethesda has sought to fix the game with continuous updates completely free of charge. The new Wastelanders update feels like the culmination of that, adding human NPCs to the title alongside a wealth of...
Thursday9th Apr 2020
News Fallout 76 Wastelanders Update Arrives Next Week Alongside Launch Trailer
NPCs are here
This is supposed to be the big one -- Fallout 76 is finally adding NPCs to its online experience and a brand new questline with the launch of the free Wastelanders PlayStation 4 update. Due to arrive next week on Tuesday 15th April 2020, the launch trailer above will give you just a taste of what to expect from those returning to West...
Tuesday4th Feb 2020
News Fallout 76 Wastelanders Update Finally Arrives in April
Population spike
Fallout 76 is finally getting its Wastelanders update in April, Bethesda has announced. Billed as the game's biggest ever content drop, Wastelanders was originally set to launch in the autumn of 2019, but it was pushed into 2020 after a lengthy period of silence on the subject. The update primarily adds non-playable characters to...
Thursday24th Oct 2019
News Disgruntled Fallout 76 Fan Makes a Mockery of Fallout 1st by Purchasing Critical Web Domain
Nuclear disaster
As with all things Fallout 76, the game's newly announced premium service Fallout 1st has arrived with its share of problems. For starters, the subscription costs $100 a year, which is bad enough, but you're not even paying for a fully working set of new features. As of right now, the Scrapbox - which allows players to store...
News Key Feature of Fallout 76's New Subscription Service Is Completely Bugged
Scrap the Scrapbox
"It just works." Bethesda boss Todd Howard's iconic words, uttered across time and space for all to hear through an infinite number of Fallout 76 meme compilations on YouTube. Fallout 76 has never just worked. The title remains a bug-ridden mess on PlayStation 4 almost one whole year after its release, and Bethesda still has the...
Wednesday23rd Oct 2019
News Fallout 1st Is a Premium Membership for Fallout 76, Costs $100 a Year
Private servers! Scrapbox! A tent!
For those of you still playing Fallout 76, there's some news that's sure to receive mixed feelings. Today, Bethesda has introduced Fallout 1st, a premium membership for its online-only shooter that will grant you access to private servers, unlimited storage for crafting items, a monthly supply of Atoms, and much...
Thursday17th Oct 2019
News Fallout 76 Gets Paid Private Servers Next Week, Wastelanders Update Delayed into 2020
Falling out
Fallout 76 is still stumbling along, believe it or not. We haven't played the thing in ages, but we have heard that the experience has been improved over the last few months. Bethesda's at least sticking to its guns and supporting the game, which is a good thing for those who enjoy playing it. The title's just been hit with a bit of a...
Wednesday25th Sep 2019
News Fallout 76 Continues to Be the Butt of All Jokes Thanks to Helmet Health Hazard
No, really
This is one of those stories that you just couldn't make up. After finally sorting out all that Fallout 76 collector's edition bag nonsense, Bethesda's been hit with another wave of bad press thanks to a collectable Fallout 76 power armour helmet. The admittedly cool looking headgear first went on sale back in June at GameStop for a...
Wednesday10th Jul 2019
News No Man's Sky's Sean Murray Gives Telling Advice to ANTHEM and Fallout 76 Devs
Listen up
It's no secret that No Man's Sky has come a long, long way since it launched back in 2016. Developer Hello Games knuckled down and put its all into improving the game over the last few years, and now the title's the best that it's ever been. It took some time, but we got there in the end. Unfortunately, No Man's Sky isn't the most recent...
Friday14th Jun 2019
News The Fallout 76 Canvas Bag Saga Finally Appears to Be Over
7 months later
Remember when Bethesda said that the Fallout 76 collector's edition would come with a canvas bag, and then it didn't? After the collector's edition shipped with a visibly cheap nylon bag, people were understandably angry, and it only added fuel to the dumpster fire that was Fallout 76 at the time. What's more, customers who got in...
Thursday13th Jun 2019
E3 2019 Bethesda's Todd Howard Regrets Not Running a Larger Scale Beta for Fallout 76
Free for Fallout 4 players
Todd Howard, director of Bethesda Game Studios, has been refreshingly candid about Fallout 76's failures both on stage at the company's E3 2019 press conference and during interviews on the show floor. During a segment with Gamespot's Mike Mahardy and Lucy James, he detailed his regrets over how Fallout 76 was initially...
Monday10th Jun 2019
E3 2019 Fallout 76 Is Getting a 52 Player Battle Royale Mode
The storm closes in
Fallout 76 is finally getting NPCs, dialogue choices, and a free trial starting today, but it's also getting a Battle Royale mode in an upcoming update. 52 players will duke it out for first place in the apocalyptic wasteland, with the likes of nukes to co
E3 2019 Fallout 76 Is Actually Getting Non-Playable Characters and Dialogue Choices
What a twist
Remember when the complete lack of non-playable characters in Fallout 76 was a key selling point? Seems so long ago doesn't it? Well later this year, everything's going to change. Coming as part of a free update titled 'Wastelanders' this Fall, NPCs will be added to the open world game along with new quests, storylines, and even...
E3 2019 Fallout 76 Free Trial Grants You a Week's Access to the Online Wasteland on PS4
Free to play
Fallout 76 has had a tough time of it, but Bethesda is clearly trying to win back players with various updates and fixes. At its E3 press conference, the publisher revealed a pretty substantial update to the game that should make it a little more attractive to lapsed players. What's more, the online title will be free to play for a...
Monday3rd Jun 2019
News Fallout 76 Was Never Going to Get Rave Reviews Says Bethesda Boss, Prompting Another Backlash
Here we go again
A rather interesting interview with Bethesda boss Todd Howard has surfaced on IGN. The industry veteran talks about the disaster that was and still is Fallout 76 and the reception that it received when it first launched back in November of last year. It's good that Howard's opening up about all of this, but his words haven't exactly...
Wednesday13th Mar 2019
News Fallout 76's Wild Appalachia Expansion Is Out Now on PS4
But why would you?
It still isn't fixed, but Bethesda is continuing to truck along with the roadmap of content it has planned out for Fallout 76. The first piece is titled Wild Appalachia, and you can get a taste of what's in store for the few out there still playing in the trailer above. There's a series of new quests to take part in, features,...
