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Despite not releasing any new RPGs in 2022, Obsidian Entertainment has had a pretty good year. And if you'd like to know whet...

Bethesda keeps quietly bringing us their bite-sized Fallout retrospectives, so we'll keep watching them. Even if they may not...

With Fallout still celebrating its 25th anniversary, Bethesda brings us one final round of retrospectives for the post-apocal...

With what is essentially a month of Fallout (thanks to the series' 25th anniversary) still upon us, we can now watch a series...

Bethesda continues to celebrate Fallout's 25th anniversary with this article that invites us to pick up Fallout 3 for free on...

With Fallout celebrating the 25th anniversary since its original release, Bethesda brings us this article highlighting some f...

Bethesda is getting ready to celebrate the 25th anniversary since Fallout's release with a series of promotions, giveaways an...

Say what you will about Josh Sawyer, but the man has a lot of experience when it comes to trying to come up with a satisfying...

Chris Avellone brings us the first update for his Fallout Apocrypha project that originally went live last month. This additi...

To this day, Chris Avellone gets asked plenty of questions about Fallout and Fallout accessories. And since he's got plenty o...

While this PC Gamer retrospective dedicated to Black Isle Studios and their games is unlikely to tell you anything you don't ...

Earlier this year, we learned that Jonathan Nolan's Fallout TV series was an actual thing that was happening and not just a d...

Over the last few years, especially following Netflix's The Witcher, we've heard about quite a few TV shows based on video ga...

The annual GOG Summer Sale is here. Running through June 28, 2021, it will allow you to purchase a bunch of heavily-discounte...

Given his pedigree of role-playing game contributions that have spanned over two decades of design work, art direction, progr...

“An Unfortunate Affair a story by Sir Chadwick Moore,” reads one of Arcanum’s loading screens presented as a magazine c...

The editors over at PC Gamer have assembled a fresh list of what they consider to be the best RPGs currently available on PC....

The recent success of The Witcher TV series looks to be the beginning of a new trend of small screen RPG adaptations. Last we...

Developed by Arkane Studios, the Dishonored series is a fine example of stealth-action RPGs, otherwise known as immersive sim...

Colin McComb, a prominent game designer who worked on a number of high-profile pen and paper RPG settings including Planescap...

We've stumbled upon a new "A History of Isometric CRPGs" video series on YouTube, which currently offers seven installments t...

If you'd like to reminisce about the long-running Fallout series and also enjoy having your facts all neatly arranged in one ...

With 2019 almost upon us, the team behind Fallout 76 brings us this development update that talks about the upcoming patches ...

With a fresh batch of rumors about a possible Baldur's Gate sequel swirling around, the folks over at PCGamesN have reached o...

Colin McComb, a veteran video game writer and RPG designer who worked on Dungeons & Dragons, Fallout 2, and Torment: Tide...

As a young lad who liked to shoot monsters in the eyes first and ask questions later, for a good while I kind of just assumed...

While not explicitly RPG-related, the new Noclip documentary is dedicated to GOG's ongoing video game-preserving efforts, and...

PC Gamer has listed what they feel are the "top 5" best years for PC gaming, and while I don't think they go back far enough ...

Side quests are a pretty important part of roleplaying games. Depending on how well they're designed, side quests can make an...

The folks at PCGamesN have recently covered the making of the original Fallout, and now we can also read an article of theirs...

Although Black Isle Studios' original Fallout and Fallout 2 have become forever planted in video game history - as well as ou...

By now you've probably noticed the recent surge in Obsidian-related articles across the Gamer Network websites that include U...

For those of you who haven't been able to get enough of the post-apocalyptic landscape in electronic format, you'll soon be a...

The editors at PCGamesN have put together a list of classic PC games that, in their mind, are still worth playing. And while ...

An interview with Chris Avellone where he talks about his involvement with Owlcat's Pathfinder: Kingmaker has popped up on Fa...

Three classic Bethesda RPGs have finally made their way to GOG: Fallout 3, Fallout: New Vegas, and The Elder Scrolls IV: Obli...

Using character examples from a variety of RPG series, including Fallout, Dragon Age, The Witcher, and The Elder Scrolls, one...

Richard Cobbett, a well-known pundit when it comes to RPGs, has put together a comprehensive guide to PC RPGs, starting from ...

The final 20 titles that IGN considers to be the best of the best when it comes to RPGs have been unveiled. By now, their edi...

Leonard Boyarsky, who worked at Interplay Entertainment, Troika Games, Blizzard Entertainment, and is currently holding a pos...

The one and only Chris Avellone participated in a livestreamed interview with Colm Larkin, the creator of Guild of Dungeoneer...

Feargus Urquhart recently appeared on IGN Unfiltered, IGN's monthly interview show. It ran for a little over an hour, during ...

People love "best of" lists. Knowing this, PC Gamer has provided a timely update to their best RPGs of all time list. The cri...

The second part of Chris Avellone's interview with Fallout fansite SugarBomber is now live, and while I'm sure the additional...

In what will be the second pinball-related title we report about here on GameBanshee, Bethesda Softworks and Zen Studios have...

Considering Chris Avellone was one of the co-founders and co-owners of Obsidian Entertainment, it always appeared puzzling th...

Podcast DaveGameClub has published an interesting audio interview with Leonard Boyarsky and Tim Cain. The two developers, who...

In a new editorial entitled "Traveling Through the Wasteland", the editors at Forbes have treated us to a quick history lesso...

Richard Cobbett's latest contribution to Rock, Paper, Shotgun isn't one of his usual editorials, but instead a gallery that a...

The folks at RPG Codex have put together a series of questions and forwarded them to Leonard Boyarsky, a recent hire at Obsid...

The folks at No Mutants Allowed had the chance to talk with Chris Avellone about the Fallout series and his current thoughts ...

The folks at Polish games conference Digital Dragons have published on YouTube a recording of the speech Feargus Urquhart, CE...

Podcast "My Favorite Game" has published an interview with Chris Avellone, ostensibly to talk about Wasteland, which happens ...

While Diablo III fans may be heartbroken to learn that ex-Troika founder and industry veteran Leonard Boyarsky has left Blizz...

WatchMojo.com has compiled a top 10 of Western role-playing games published during the 80s and 90s, which excludes MMORPGs an...

Kotaku's Patricia Hernandez has decided to revise her list of Fallout games from best to worst in light of the release of Fal...

Although they specifically leave out Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel and Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel because "nobody ...

The internet continues to be swamped in articles dedicated to Bethesda's latest title, Fallout 4, and today I've rounded up a...

On the eve of Fallout 4's launch, Gamasutra is offering up a two-page "20 Years of Fallout: Lessons Learned Shipping Games in...

Mass Effect, Fallout, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Pokemon, Baldur's Gate, Final Fantasy, Ultima, and The Elder Sc...

Bethesda Softworks fired over a press release today announcing that they've released their Fallout Anthology collection here ...

Chris Avellone has always been a very popular designer and writer, and also one that never shied from offering his contributi...

Through a tweet on the official Fallout franchise account, Bethesda has announce the release of a Fallout-themed Monopoly. Wh...

Today brings us an exciting turn of events over on CD Projekt's GOG.com digital download service, as they've announced a new ...

IGN's executive editor of reviews Dan Stapleton has rated all the Fallout games, including the spin-offs, from worst to best....

Bethesda has just announced Fallout Anthology, a collection of all the Fallout games released for PC from Fallout to Fallout:...

A fascinating piece on Medium describes not only why the Fallout universe is so compelling for many of us from a gameplay per...

We all have our reasons for being in love with - or at the very least enthralled by - the Fallout franchise, whether it be du...

With the announcement of Fallout 4 from Bethesda, games journalists from PC Gamer and Eurogamer have decided to dig back into...

The full interview with Chris Avellone from PC Invasion has been released today after having been teased yesterday. The full ...

While I have to admit, I am not completely surprised, this is still shocking news: Obsidian's co-founder and co-owner Chris A...

Codex of RPG Elucidation has published the first part of an interview with Chris Avellone on Fallout: New Vegas, in which the...

Yesterday Kotaku conducted a community Q&A with Obsidian's co-founder and Chief Creative Officer Chris Avellone, who has ...

While there is no mention of Fallout Tactics, Van Buren, or even Interplay's forgettable action RPG, Kotaku has ranked the fo...

Dutch website Pixelcake has published an interview with Chris Avellone, and luckily for us, they offer an English version, wh...

In what has to be one of the oddest editorial series I've ever stumbled upon, a moving website called "The Movers" has writte...

Matt Barton has published the second half of his interview with Obsidian Entertainment CEO Feargus Urquhart. While the first ...

Bethesda Softworks has announced that Fallout, Fallout 2, and Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel have returned to Steam, a...

The one and only Chris Avellone has taken the time to answer another fistful of questions about his personal likes/dislikes a...

Polygon has just published an excellent and lengthy piece on Brian Fargo, with additional contributions from Blizzard's Rob P...

Now that The Elder Scrolls Online has been released and we're approaching E3, I suspect more and more publications will produ...

It seems that the games' disappearance from GOG.com and Steam earlier this year was for a specific purpose, as the latest ESR...

Joystiq reports that Bethesda has recently filed three applications for the "Nuka Cola" trademark, for use in computer games ...

The folks at RPGamer have gone back to Black Isle's classic Fallout sequel and wrote a review complete with score for it. I'm...

Talking to Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Bethesda's Todd Howard (game director on Skyrim and Fallout 3) revealed that it might take a...

As you can see for yourself by checking their Steam pages, Fallout 1, 2 and the spin-off Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Stee...

I'm not sure if it has anything to do with the fact that the titles were recently made available for free on the digital down...

While I'm reasonably sure that a sizable portion of our audience already owns all these titles, this is still a promo that is...

Apparently the editors at Kotaku managed to get their hands on some documents that were distributed by Bethesda Softworks or ...

In case you're even remotely curious about the development of Black Isle's classic Fallout 2, you'll want to listen to this e...

As Computer and Videogames reports, the recent Fallout 4 trademark filing is only one in a string of recent trademark hoaxes ...

With the Spike Video Game Awards (which are now called VGX, apparently) scheduled for a December 7th airing, it seems awfully...

Will Ooi, who you might remember for the "Unmasking the Gamers" series of interviews, has penned an article on the reception ...

We have rounded up a couple of recent interview with Obsidian Entertainment's creative director and human stretch goal Chris ...

There's no official announcement for Fallout 4 yet, but it's extremely likely it's in production at Bethesda Game Studios rig...

Fallout fans are in for a treat today, as Killap, long-time Fallout community member and creator of the Fallout 2 Restoration...

Kotaku's Patricia Hernandez has decided to write an article wherein she ranks the Fallout series games (not counting spin-off...

The editors over at PC Gamer took advantage of Memorial Day weekend to return to Black Isle Studios' Fallout 2 for their late...

There's a quick interview with RPG-designing veteran Guido Henkel on The Nerd Cave this evening, during which the conversati...

Talking at a writer's workshop at GDC, and as reported by Shacknews, Obsidian's chief creative officer Chris Avellone has sun...

While this isn't the first time that Bethesda registers a trademark for applications out of their usual portfolio, and while ...

Koobismo is offering a one-hour long audio interview with Obsidian's creative director Chris Avellone, which, despite various...

In their latest "Gaming Made Me" feature, one of Rock, Paper, Shotgun's female editors takes a closer look back at Black Isle...

After arguing that a Boston setting doesn't fit the Fallout series in its first piece, the California Literary Review's video...

AusGamers had the opportunity to chat up Encryption Films' Wade K. Savage, during which the Fallout: Lanius director and crea...

California Literary Review's videogame blog has an editorial about Fallout's setting, its Western/Frontier fee,l and why Bost...

Word has quickly spread of an upcoming rebirth of the famous RPG developer, Black Isle Studios, after the appearance of a bra...

Thanks to a tweet from inXile CEO Brian Fargo we learn that Colin McComb, writer on, among other things, Planescape: Torment ...

Those of you who have been waiting for a chance to get your hands on some Khajiit, Argonian, or Brotherhood of Steel action f...

I'm not sure if I find Pixelitis' editor's reasoning convincing, but in an editorial on the website they argue that the recen...

We haven't linked to Wayside Creations' Fallout: Nuka Break web series since it first debuted, but it's worth pointing out th...

RPG Codex offers a retrospective interview with Fallout, Troika and now Diablo III designer and artist Leonard Boyarsky, abou...

Why he's excited to work on Wasteland 2, Obsidian's past hurdles with publishers and project cancellations, the franchises he...

All things considered, the Fallout games are probably the best example of how to do low attribute scores right, at least when...

inXile's Brian Fargo has just announced through Twitter that the Mark Morgan, the composer of the first two Fallout games and...

IGN has penned up a list of gaming franchises/series that changed beyond recognition, which includes four franchises we have ...

Obsidian Entertainment designer Josh Sawyer has taken to his personal blog to spell out the reasons why he continues to disli...

IGN's Keza McDonald has chosen to dedicate a large part of their gay history of gaming, an editorial devoted to cite examples...

I can imagine among the things present in Chris Avellone's daily routine is "reply to yet another interviewer's questions" at...

As part of their visit to Obsidian Entertainment's offices for their South Park: The Game feature, the folks at Game Informer...

Bethesda Softworks just fired over a press release that not only confirms that they've reached a settlement in their litigati...

If this report over at Duck and Cover is to be believed, Interplay and Bethesda have actually reached a settlement to their l...

After a first part mostly focused on the Nuka Break web series, The Game Creators Vault offers the second part of their exclu...

In an interesting fans-meet-creators moment, The Game Creators Vault has put together Zack Finrock and Vince Talenti, the guy...

Completing what he started with the first and second installments, Will Ooi chats a third time with Obsidian's co-founder Chr...

I don't think anyone doubts that there will be another installment to the popular Fallout franchise, and that has unsurprisin...

No Mutants Allowed is continuing its series of interviews with Fallout 1/2/3/Tactics/New Vegas modders by interviewing two mo...

Obsidian Entertainment's Chris Avellone continues to field questions about his video game development history around the web,...

Yet another interview with Obsidian Entertainment creative director and RPG-developing veteran Chris Avellone has surfaced on...

1UP has put together an article in which they wonder how accurate the portrayal of a post-nuclear wasteland is in the Fallout...

The first installment to a multi-part interview with Obsidian Entertainment's Chris Avellone is up at the Will Ooi blog (and ...

Next up on NMA's series of Fallout modder interviews is Chris Parks, creator of EPA, Primitive Tribe and Cold Hearts, as well...

No Mutants Allowed has kicked off a series of interviews with noteworthy Fallout modders, starting with Timeslip, who has don...

Mash has released version 3.0 of his excellent high resolution patch for Fallout 2. The new patch overhauls a lot of code an...

The latest developer interview on the Bethesda Blog is with Obsidian's Scott Everts, a veteran with an impressive pedigree wh...

No Mutants Allowed brings us a blast from the past, having procured press packs for Interplay's Fallout and Fallout 2, giving...

It appears that Sol Invictus has left his post at Hellmode for Gameranx, where he's posted an editorial entitled "The Forgott...

Movie website Anomalous Material has cranked out a list of ten video games they feel should be made into movies, and, surpris...

The political and faction-divided landscape of the post-apocalyptic wasteland, as well as the way the player can influence it...

The fourth part of Rock Paper Shotgun's The Very Important List of PC Games (to be read as "games we like") is absolutely sto...

Stardock's Impulse catalogue has been expanded to include all of Interplay's Fallout titles. They are sold seperately or in ...

The third and final part of Matt Barton's hour-long interview with Interplay founder Brian Fargo focuses on the decline and e...

In the second portion of Matt Barton's video interview with Interplay founder Brian Fargo, we hear quite a bit about Wastelan...

Matt Barton wasn't kidding when he hinted about doing a video interview with Interplay and inXile Entertainment founder Brian...

The editors at Dealspwn felt that our favorite Fallout ghoul Harold (and Bob, the tree growing out of his head) has been over...

We posted over half a year ago that Mark Morgan had remastered his work on the Fallout 1 and 2 OSTs and put them online for f...

Obsidian Entertainment's Josh Sawyer has once again returned to his Formspring feed to answer some questions (primarily deali...

This brief editorial on Goozer Nation recounts the PC gaming scene as it existed in 1998. If you were spending many a night ...

Bitmob has moved on to part four of their "Forgotten Ruins: The Roots of CRPGs" editorial series, with this latest entry cove...

If you're still waiting for your copy of Fallout: New Vegas to be delivered, you can spend some quality time reading through ...

GameTrailers TV is hosting a potentially fun featurette in another four-minute "Science of" video with physicist Dr. Michio ...

PC Gamer's Dan Stapleton has a short editorial on the "looks like a mod" complaint for sequels that keep significant assets f...

One of GameZone's more paranoid authors has editorialized about some of the excellent post-nuclear survival tips he's picked ...

No Mutants Allowed offers a status update on some of the larger ongoing modding projects for Fallout 2, such as Between Good...

Obsidian Entertainment CEO Feargus Urquhart took a moment out of his day to field a bunch of questions about the Fallout fran...

Fallout 2 modder killap strikes again, updating his massive unofficial Fallout 2 patch and restoration projects. The polished...

With Fallout: New Vegas on the horizon, IGN has republished their eight-page history of the Fallout series, though they've ob...

Episode #68 of Matt Barton's Matt Chat series is now online, and it features the third and final part of his interview with T...

The 67th episode of Matt Barton's "Matt Chat" video series is now online, and as we expected, it contains the second portion ...

I suppose you could consider this six-page article-style interview with Obsidian Entertainment's Chris Avellone on gamesTM a ...

The 66th episode of Matt Barton's "Matt Chat" video series features the first portion of an interview he did with Carbine Stu...

An editorial called "Fallout's Forgotten Revolution on Hellmode points out the fact that Interplay's post-apocalyptic masterp...

A new editorial on Bitmob draws attention to the lack of repercussions to many of the choices present in modern role-playing ...

Fallout 1/2 OST composer Mark Morgan has finished his remastering project for the music he composed for Fallout 1 and 2, and ...

Duck and Cover brings word that Bethesda Softworks and Interplay have settled out of court, and that future legal proceedings...

Tales of the Rampant Coyote's Jay Barnson once again summarizes what he's learned from several CRPGs, though this time most o...

I suppose it's possible that this is some sort of marketing ploy for Fallout: New Vegas, but it appears that some company int...

If you're a fan of the post-nuclear apocalypse depicted in the Fallout series, you'll most likely also be interested in X-Str...

Obsidian's Chris Avellone has returned to his blog to answer another question about game design and provide some tips on how ...

Killap has released version 1.02.26 of his popular "unofficial" patch for Fallout 2, as well as an updated v2.0 revision of h...

Obsidian Entertainment CEO Feargus Urquhart took some time out of his day to answer a variety of questions on Bethesda's offi...

Eurogamer had the opportunity to sit down with Obsidian Entertainment's Chris Avellone for a hefty four-page interview about ...

Duck and Cover once again brings us up to speed on the legal drama between Interplay and Bethesda Softworks over the Fallout ...

The Vault Boy icons displaying different perks and traits in Fallout are well known. Of all the icons originally conceived, o...

Destructoid's Jim Sterling has apparently had enough of "franchise fanboys", as he's decided to editorialize about the commot...

The guys over at Duck and Cover caught up with RPG veteran Tim Cain for an interview about the Fallout franchise he helped cr...

Recruiting firm TS2 has announced their pick for the "Most Successful & Respected" executive producer in the video game indus...

The legal drama over the Fallout IP continues, as Duck and Cover reports that Interplay CEO Herve Caen has issued a seventeen...

After revealing the existence and cancellation of Fallout Extreme yesterday, The Vault brings us further details about the pr...

It's not clear how he even learned about it, but Ausir over at The Vault has posted a few details about a previously unknown ...

Even though Bethesda Softworks filed to have certain statements about their upcoming MMORPG redacted from the transcripts of ...

Duck and Cover has gotten their hands on additional transcripts from the Interplay vs. Bethesda preliminary injunction hearin...

Duck and Cover managed to get their hands on some partial transcripts from the preliminary injunction hearing that took place...

Duck and Cover brings word that Interplay is seeking nearly $10,000 in legal fees from Bethesda following the denial of the l...

Polish Fallout fansite Trzynasty Schron has published a lengthy interview with Obsidian's Chris Avellone and Josh Sawyer abou...

We haven't heard much about Bethesda's lawsuit against Interplay since mid-October, but now Ausir over at The Vault brings wo...

According to Ausir over at The Vault, the DVD release of Mutant Chronicles includes an interview with Fallout narrator Ron Pe...

Seemingly oblivious to the fact that both Fallout Online and Fallout: New Vegas have already been in development for some tim...

Grupo97 has published a pretty good interview with Obsidian's Chris Avellone, covering such topics as Alpha Protocol, plot co...

The second half of Media Consumes Me's history of the Fallout series is now available, this time covering Interplay's cancell...

No Mutants Allowed got its hands on several of the court documents concerning the preliminary injunction hearing, and sums u...

This is essentially a repeat of our earlier news on Interplay's court filings, but with the added bonus of having significant...

Interplay stockholder frymuchan has posted on the Raging Bull Stockholder forum summarizing the court filings done by Interpl...

The MMO Gamer had the opportunity to conduct a lengthy interview with RPG veteran Tim Cain about the unnamed MMORPG he's cur...

Veteran RPG designer Chris Avellone took a moment out of his busy day to answer quite a few fan-submitted design questions on...

The first half of Media Consumes Me's fairly elaborate history of the Fallout series is online, which takes us on a quick jou...

Ausir from The Vault stopped by our forums to point out that Bethesda has technically filed two lawsuits against Interplay. T...

After stumbling upon the fan-made high resolution mods for the Infinity Engine series and early Fallout titles, Ars Technica ...

Interplay has teamed up with Valve to release Fallout, Fallout 2, Fallout Tactics, and the full Fallout collection on Steam.B...

Feargus Urquhart is one of the most prominent figures in the role-playing video game business, having spent the last 18 years...

After much prodding and poking, we were finally able to pull Chris Avellone away from his grueling Neverwinter Nights 2 sched...

(War. War never changes.) Like an old friend, those familiar words have greeted Fallout players with each installment of the ...