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From 'Starfield' to Artemis: designing moonbases in games and reality

Looking at the best games for building lunar settlements, and how they compare to NASA's real-life plans for Artemis Base Camp.

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Bethesda showed the Fallout: New Vegas team a "powerpoint about all the things Obsidian did wrong," dev says: "Hugely morale-boosting"

"'I thought we did a good product for you guys that kept Fallout in the public consciousness, but you guys don't seem very happy about it'"

GamesRadar

Fallout: New Vegas dev says it could've been set in New Orleans because 'the vibe was so cool, the flavor was cool, [it would've been] so sweet'

Get Obsidian on that New Orleans idea stat.

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Fallout: New Vegas dev says Bethesda made the studio sit through 'a whole powerpoint about all the things Obsidian did wrong'

"Bethesda used review scores against us."

PC Gamer

Fallout 5 rumored setting New Orleans was originally discussed at New Vegas studio Obsidian, and veteran dev still believes "there's a lot of potential there"

Fallout New Orleans rolls off the tongue, doesn't it?

GamesRadar

Former Obdisian creative officer says not to bet on a Fallout: New Vegas remake, because Bethesda doesn't have 'the engineering know-how' to create it, and may not have the source code

Obsidian Entertainment co-founder and former creative officer Chris Avellone has said a Fallout: New Vegas remake may not be possible because Bethesda lacks the "engineering knowhow."

TechRadar

After 15 years and 323 hours, I've finally beaten Fallout: New Vegas, and this game doesn't need mods as much as you think it does

Good enough on its own.

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Xbox's Starfield just topped US game sales for the first time since launch after its PS5 release — is Bethesda's RPG selling well on PlayStation after all?

Starfield was the best-selling game in the US during the same week that the Xbox RPG came to PS5 and got some sizable content updates from Bethesda.

Windows Central

Fallout: New Vegas dev says don't expect a remaster, argues Bethesda doesn't have the source code or 'the engineering knowhow'

I'm not quite sure that would be the biggest issue.

PC Gamer

Starfield "was the best-selling video game of the week" in US for first time in nearly 3 years, reports analyst, despite Bethesda's rough PS5 port of the RPG

Some good news for a change

GamesRadar

Fallout: New Vegas designer says don't hold your breath for an Oblivion-style remaster: "I don't think Bethesda has the engineering knowhow"

But Bethesda could test it out on Fallout 3 first, Chris Avellone says

GamesRadar

Almost 28 years later, the mystery of what's under women's skirts in Elder Scrolls spin-off Redguard has finally been solved

I know you've all been dying to find out.

PC Gamer

Bethesda "lectured" Fallout New Vegas designer for saying the RPG would run at 30 FPS: "'Why do you have a f***ing engine that can't run 30 frames per second?'"

"It was so offensive to me"

GamesRadar

Apparently the name of one of the most famous RPG series of all time was a last-minute band-aid: 'I don't think he knew what it meant any more than we did'

"In the end, we had a game that almost didn't resemble our original idea at all."

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"One of the longest running secrets in the history of The Elder Scrolls": Redguard fans discover the 28-year-old game has a special way of protecting women from creeps

Redguard comes with guardrails!

GamesRadar

Skyrim mod has you slay dragons "by debating them on the geopolitics of Tamriel," turning Bethesda's RPG into an absurd game of Civilization

No more spells, just brainpower

PC Gamer

Design lead on the first Elder Scrolls fondly recalls the days when Bethesda would finish a game, then the team would 'assemble boxes, inserts and use the heat gun' to get it shipped

"We even spent time shrink-wrapping the games ourselves."

TechRadar

Age rating leak suggests Starfield might really come to Nintendo Switch 2

The Nintendo Switch 2 version of Starfield is seemingly real as Bethesda's space-faring role-playing game (RPG) gets a new rating.

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Bethesda releases urgent Starfield hotfix players say "did absolutely nothing" for the RPG on PS5 Pro, base PS5 owners eagerly await their own patch "targeting next week"

"Can't say I'm surprised, just disappointed again"

GamesRadar

Elder Scrolls co-creator believed bugs were a necessary evil for Bethesda's massive RPGs: "I think the trade-off has proven to be acceptable by the fans"

"This kind of game is difficult to test because you simply cannot duplicate every test instance"

GamesRadar

Starfield is somehow coming to Switch 2, it appears, despite the RPG's "unplayable" PS5 launch and Skyrim's own initially disastrous port

Bethesda, are you sure?

Windows Central

Xbox's Starfield gets Nintendo Switch 2 rating days after its PS5 release, keeping hopes for a port of Bethesda's RPG alive — here's what we know

Is Starfield coming to Nintendo Switch 2? A new rating suggests that it is, though recent reports claim the port in development has been difficult to make.

GamesRadar

This Elder Scrolls-like RPG gets better and better: It's got Morrowind's weirdness, Skyrim's NPC schedules, and it'll cost "$20 max"

Importantly, "we use no AI in development at all"

GamesRadar

Crimson Desert "on track to overtake Starfield's total lifetime copies sold by the end of the year," analyst says, as PS5 sales "not fantastic for a port of the biggest Bethesda RPG in a decade"

And we have Game Pass to thank

Windows Central

"We have ideas that we want to get out there": Bethesda's Todd Howard says Xbox's Starfield and Fallout 76 were "creatively different" by design, for better or worse

Bethesda's Todd Howard says Fallout 76 and Starfield were different than its usual RPGs by design, as the devs "have ideas that we want to get out there."

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