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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
News Fallout 4 Looks Indistinguishable in Jaw Dropping Dreams Creation
Pipped at the post
There’s no end to the jaw-dropping Dreams creations, but this may just be the most spectacular we’ve seen so far. Fans of Fallout 4 will feel at home immediately, because it’s inspired by Bethesda’s popular PlayStation 4 game. This isn’t any old janky recreation, though – the menu screen has been replicated perfectly,...
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...
Soapbox The Outer Worlds Highlights Just How Far Fallout Has Fallen
What could have been
This week, The Outer Worlds was released. Obsidian's sci-fi role-playing game may not push the genre forward in any radical way, but it is an excellent example of what's possible when player choice is promoted above all else. I'm busy playing through The Outer Worlds for the third time in about as many weeks, and I'm still...
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...
Guide Is The Outer Worlds Open World?
Is The Outer Worlds like Fallout?
Is The Outer Worlds an open world game? Obsidian's latest release certainly has a lot in common with existing open world titles like Fallout: New Vegas (which was also developed by Obsidian), but if you're expecting to explore a huge map with few boundaries, then you're probably going to be disappointed. Is The...
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...
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...
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...
News Bethesda Boosts PS Now with DOOM, Wolfenstein, and Fallout
Coming on 6th August
There’s good news for PlayStation Now subscribers: Bethesda is bringing DOOM, Wolfenstein: The New Order, and Fallout 4 to the service from 6th August. The publisher announced the all-star selection of software during a panel at QuakeCon. As these are all native PlayStation 4 games, you’ll have the option to either download...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
News Fallout 76 Outlines Big Plans for 2019, But We Think Bethesda Should Fix the Game on PS4 First
Priorities
We went back to Fallout 76 not too long ago just to see how it was holding up, and do you know what we found? Yep, it's still a technical mess on PS4. As the game's latest press release states, the title is now 100 days old, and it remains an immensely buggy, and in some cases borderline broken open world title on Sony's system. It wasn't...
News German Retailers Continue Purge of Fallout 76 Stock, Giving It Away with PS4 Hard Drives
Please take it
You may recall the recent discovery that GameStop Germany is giving away copies of botched online shooter Fallout 76 with purchases of second-hand controllers. Well, it seems that's not the only way the country's retailers are ridding themselves of unwanted stock. A new Reddit post shows a copy of Bethesda'
Nicht gut
If you're in the market for a new PlayStation 4 controller but don't want to fork out the full retail price, you may want to catch the next flight over to Germany. GameStop's got a deal going on over there that throws in a free copy of Fallout 76 when you nab a grimy console pad. Considering the fact that both of them may not function as...
The game that keeps on giving
Fallout 76 has been the butt of just about every joke imaginable since it launched in November last year, and we just can't help but laugh. It's been one comically inept blunder after another, and now players have found a way to gain access to an in-game room that houses both unreleased items and an actual human NPC who...
News Bethesda Is Handing Out Fallout Classic Collection to All Fallout 76 Players
Happy nuke year
Bethesda has had quite the uphill battle with Fallout 76, and it's doing its best to win back some much needed positive rep. Case in point: the publisher has said it'll be handing out free copies of Fallout Classic Collection to all those who played the buggy online title in 2018. The collection, which includes Fallout, Fallout 2,...
News Fans Aren't Happy About Fallout 76 Microtransactions, PC Version Hints at Pay-to-Win
Lunchboxes offering buffs for Atoms?
It's fair to say the launch of Fallout 76 hasn't gone as smoothly as Bethesda would've wanted. Filled to bursting with technical issues and sporting an uninteresting world, it's a pretty unfortunate start for the online multiplayer take on the publisher's iconic RPG series. Unfortunately, it feels like things are...
News Bethesda Says It'll Send Canvas Bags to Fallout 76 Collector's Edition Buyers
No, really
Bloody hell, this story's been something, hasn't it? For those totally out of the loop, allow us to quickly get you up to speed. Back when the collector's edition for Fallout 76 was revealed, it was advertised that a canvas bag would be included. However, when fans received their Power Armor Edition of the game, they found that the canvas...
Yikes
Fallout 76 came underfire once more this week, after fans who purchased the Collector’s Edition noted that the canvas duffel bag the premium edition was supposed to ship with had been replaced by a cheap nylon alternative. Bethesda promised to make things right by prov
News Fallout 76 Patch Notes Released, No Mention of PS4 Performance Improvements
Fortunately it's only 3GB
Bethesda has released the patch notes for Fallout 76's next update, which is set to be deployed next week, on the 4th December. It brings extra storage space and tweaks some game balancing. With the patch installed, high level opponents will reward less XP, boss loot should now drop properly, and automatic weapon damage has...
500 whole Atoms
The Fallout 76 drama just never ends, does it? Bethesda's found itself in hot water once again as fans have expressed their disappointment with the quality of a duffel bag that was included in the game's $200 Power Armour Edition. Said bag was advertised as a "canvas duffel bag", but the one that actually shipped with the Power...
News Future Fallout 76 Updates Aim to Improve Performance (Again)
We've heard that one before
Bethesda has outlined further plans for Fallout 76, detailing a couple of updates that it'll roll out in the near future. One such update is due next week, and the developer says that it'll "bring an increase to the Stash limit, as well as a variety of performance and stability improvements, balance changes, and multiple...
Black Friday 2018 The Broken, Buggy Fallout 76 Discounted After a Week
Deals for desperate disappointment
If you bought Fallout 76 then not only will you have received a desperately disappointing, buggy, borderline broken game – you’ll also have paid over the odds for it. Just a week after release – and one gigantic, pointless patch later – Bethesda has decided to discount the title heavily, slapping all of its...
Hands On Fallout 76's Massive 47GB Patch Does Nothing to Improve the Game's Awful Performance on PS4
Great
Earlier this week, Fallout 76 update 1.02 launched on PlayStation 4. The colossal 47GB patch promised performance improvements, specifically a fix for the game's stuttering issue. Those of you who have read our review of the release will already know that we highlighted this problem because it has a substantial negative impact
Let's hope it works
Fallout 76's first post-launch patch is out now on PlayStation 4, and it weighs in at a whopping 47GB. This is the update that Bethesda says will improve the game's performance, so let's hope that the near constant stuttering and ridiculously low frame rates are eradicated with it installed. Bethesda has also noted that future...
News Fallout 76 Performance Improvements Coming Soon, Says Bethesda
Let's hope so
Fallout 76 has launched in bad shape. The game's annoyingly unstable at the best of times on PlayStation 4, and at its worst it's an absolute mess. Stuttering, frame rate issues, and tons of bugs, Fallout 76 has it all. Fortunately, Bethesda says that it's working on improving the technical performance of the release. Over on its...
News Fallout 76 Is Getting Review Bombed by Irritated Fans
People aren't impressed
Fallout 76 runs outrageously poorly on the PlayStation 4, and the pile-in from somewhat petty fans is beginning. While the online nature of the release has ruled out reviews from outlets like Push Square until a later date, players are taking to Metacritic to air their grievances with the online-focused su
Hands On Fallout 76's PS4 Performance Is Embarrassing in 2018
Here we are again
There's no getting around it: Fallout 76 is a bit of a mess on PlayStation 4 as far as technical performance is concerned. Those familiar with developer Bethesda Game Studios' track record may have seen this coming, but that can't be used as an excuse. Fallout 76 isn't a total train wreck on Sony's system, but after having spent...
News Fallout 76's PS4 Servers Go Live Earlier Than Expected
It's Bethesda's vault
Fallout 76’s servers weren’t supposed to go live until midnight on 14th November, but you can play it on the PlayStation 4 right now. Betheda’s online open world RPG is currently playable in the UK, and we’re hearing reports that the same is true across Europe and in various other regions, too. Of course, it’s...
News Fallout 76 'Faction-Based PvP System' and More to Be Added After Launch
Wasteland wonders
Bethesda has kind-of-sort-of revealed what it has in store post-launch for Fallout 76. In an official blog post, the developer writes "We have an incredible list of updates we’ve begun work on – from C.A.M.P. building improvements, new quests and events, new Vaults opening, character respecing, a faction-based PvP system, and...
News Fallout 76 Trophies Will Keep You Busy in the West Virginia Wasteland on PS4
Prize kill
In case you'd forgotten, there's a new Fallout game coming out tomorrow. The multiplayer-focused Fallout 76 is about to leave the Bethesda vault and head out into the world, and with it of course comes a fresh batch of trophies to earn. The list is available online now, and It looks to be a straightforward, if time consuming, collection...
News Fallout 76's Gigantic Day One Patch Is Bigger Than the 45GB Game
Nuked
Fallout 76 is around 45GB in size -- big but not Red Dead Redemption 2 big. However, include its 54GB day one patch, and suddenly its total file size is closing in on a whopping 100GB. That's right, Fallout 76's day one patch is reportedly bigger than the actual game. God only knows how big the patch notes are gonna be, but we'll go ahead and...
News Fallout 76 Support Will Be 'Never-Ending', Says Bethesda
The apocalypse and beyond
Bethesda's prepared to support Fallout 76 for a long, long time, according to the ever talkative Pete Hines. The Bethesda boss has told GameSpot that the developer plans on sticking with the online only title "as long as people keep playing it and it shows no sign of slowing down". "How long is [Fallout 76] going to be up?...
Guide Fallout 76 PS4 Beta - Dates, Times, and How You Can Play
When does the Fallout 76 beta start?
When can you start playing the Fallout 76 beta test? Bethesda's B.E.T.A programme for its multiplayer only Fallout game begins today on PS4, but it's only available at certain points. So, what dates and times is the beta online? We've assembled a handy guide to let you know how you can play the beta and when it's...
Friends forever
Fallout 76 is taking the property in a very different direction, going all-in on online multiplayer. As such, it's apparently time for live action trailers that, well, aren't exactly what we've come to expect from Fallout. Cue a woman in a field spinning in a circle while firing automatic weapons and a deathclaw that belongs in a...
